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out. I…it was just a lot and Caroline…” Evelyn’s teeth clenched and she swallowed hard. “That was just a lousy thing for her to say right then, even if it’s true.”
    David put his hands on her shoulders and leaned in until his nose was almost touching hers. “No, you listen to me. Caroline might have thought that this thing could’ve been handled all hush-hush, but I don’t believe that for a second. The Vulke wouldn’t have let that happen. They’ve been planning something big from the start. Now we were probably naïve to think that they wouldn’t find out about this meeting, but neither of us has ever been through something like this before, and if Caroline thought that we weren’t handling things the right way, she could have said so or refused to continue the phone chain. Also, Kim had a really good point about something earlier. What if we thought that we had kept the meeting secret, but the Vulke really did know about it? We might’ve done things thinking that we were being sneaky that could’ve turned out disastrous because the Vulke were wise to us.”
    Evelyn nodded. “I just wish…”
    “We all do, Evie.” David put his arms around her.
    “Sara told me that we had to ‘kick their asses’.”
    “We will.” David released her. “Now, let’s get some food in you and…and figure out how we’re going to make the Vulke pay.”
    Evelyn nodded forcefully and they went together out into the living room. Roberto was standing in front of the fireplace staring into the fire, Kim was perched uneasily on the edge of one of the chairs, and the two bodyguards had taken up strategic positions at opposite ends of the room, one by the door and one by the windows. Roberto looked up impatiently when they entered the room and waited for David to sit on another chair before making his way over to the couch. Evelyn nodded to him in passing as she spied the salad on the table and went over to finally appease her neglected stomach.
    David’s eyes trailed Evelyn to the table, then he turned to Roberto. “As much as I don’t want to see her condescending face right now, shouldn’t Caroline be a part of this discussion too?”
    “Perhaps,” Roberto admitted, “but for now I’d like to speak to just you and Dr. Eisenhart and make my conclusions before hearing the…thoughts of others.” He glanced over at Kim. “I’m sorry, miss, I’m not sure that I’ve had the pleasure of being formally introduced to you.”
    Kim looked like a deer in the headlights under Roberto’s scrutiny. “I…um…I’m Kim, Kim Panders. I…er…I guess I’m one of the Vulke’s strays. I wasn’t bitten or injected with anything that I know of, but I’m…I’m a werewolf, like Evie and David.”
    “And how did you end up with Dr. Eisenhart and David instead of with the Vulke?”
    “I’m not sure. I know that the Vulke were watching me, but I ended up in the woods in Tennessee and Evelyn and David found me. They saved my life, twice actually. The Vulke came after me, but David and I got away from them.”
    “She’s been through a lot with us, Roberto,” David interjected. “You can trust her.”
    Roberto turned to face David. “I think that I will have to make that judgement for myself, but thank you for your input.”
    David scowled but didn’t offer a retort.
    “I take it something happened to the original lab for Dr. Eisenhart to request another?”
    “If we can call you Roberto, then you can call me Evelyn,” Evelyn said through a mouthful of salad. “And yes, the Vulke found us and destroyed it just before the meeting.”
    “We barely escaped with our lives,” added David. “We think they traced our cell phone.”
    “Do you think that they gleaned anything useful?”
    “Probably, it isn’t as if we had a chance to destroy any files or anything before we left. We didn’t build in a self-destruct mechanism. Next time I guess.” David smiled ruefully.
    “That is unfortunate news. Now the Vulke