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Chapter 48
The bed next to her was empty when Jo woke up the next morning. She shouldn’t have been surprised; as much as she’d wanted to jump Zane the second they’d walked into the room, to take the passion he’d displayed when he’d kissed her in the Jeep to the next level and let all of her emotions out in one fast, furious fuck, she’d realized that it would be a mistake. He didn’t deserve to be objectified in that way, even if she was beginning to realize her feelings for him were still alive, just buried deep, and he wouldn’t have minded the abuse--on the surface. Eventually, when he saw that it hadn’t meant the same thing to her, he’d begin to regret it, and she didn’t want there to be anything else between them, not if she ever planned on attempting to salvage this relationship. For the first time in months, she was beginning to realize she wanted to.
She looked around the room and saw that she w
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Hardly a living soul was visible as Jo and Zane walked down the streets of Magadan. The wind was blowing at a sharp clip, sending the snow from the ground swirling and biting into their skin. It didn’t bother either of them, but a human would’ve found it quite unpleasant.Jo was glad for the solace of it. They made their way down the deserted streets, away from the hotel and the mostly closed up shops toward what used to be a city park. Now, the plants had taken over much of the area, the high grass visible above the snow, the tree branches clearly needing a good trim, and the play area rusted, many of the attractions missing key parts. It looked exactly how she would expect a park abandoned after an apocalypse to look, which made her feel quite welcome.A large pond took up the far western quarter of the park. Jo headed there. Her keen eyesight cut through the distance so that she could see the surface long before she arriv
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The drive back out to the compound was relatively silent. Jo hated that her relationship with Zane was currently strained. Since she’d arrived in this hell-hole of a mission, he’d been the only one she could consistently rely upon to keep her moving forward. She needed someone like that, someone who believed in her even when she couldn’t see past the fact that she had never been anything but a mess up. The situation needed to be fixed, but if she was any good at correcting her mistakes, she wouldn’t feel like a screw up all the time to begin with.This time, when they arrived outside of the gate, Lucas’s band of Souled Vampires were already waiting for them. Not only were there far fewer Vampires escorting them in, the ones that were there had their weapons slung against their backs, not at the ready as they had been the night before. It was clear something had changed. Whether or not that should make Jo feel better or not r
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Coughing and spewing, Jo pulled herself up off of the ground and peered through the thick smoke billowing from what had been the door to the bus. She hadn’t been standing that close, but the explosion had knocked her backward at least ten feet into a snowbank. Around her, she saw several members of her team beginning to reanimate, pulling themselves up off of the ground, shaking their heads to clear them.Remembering that Cadon had been within inches of the door when the explosion had rocked them all away from the vehicle, Jo searched the ground frantically, looking for her twin. Not a trace of him anywhere, she spun around, trying to locate him. Where could he have flown to? Surely, the explosion wasn’t so intense it had torn him apart?When she spotted him, standing on top of the overpass, at least forty feet above her head, she couldn’t help but let her mouth drop open. He looked perfectly fine, like he didn’t
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Once again, Jo found herself standing in the snow amongst dense trees, staring at the side of a mountain. It was getting old, these vantage points, but with plenty of Xs left on her list to tick off and little else to do about it, she readied her weapon and hoped these assholes hadn’t gotten the memo that they needed to have their scandium bullets ready.This mine was set off from the others, a little deeper into the mountain range, away from major towns or villages. It had taken them several hours to get there, so she hoped that meant they wouldn’t be expecting the next hit to come at this location. Granted, even Vampires were smart enough to figure out that they needed to have all of their facilities at the ready, but this one was so far off the beaten path, she was banking on the idea that they might just assume her forces wouldn’t bother to go there.She was about to find out.This time, she was s
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