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Chapter 56
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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The sound of intense pounding jarred Jo awake. “Fuck,” she muttered as she willed her eyes to open. A look around told her it was daylight, but then, in Russia, this time of year, that didn’t mean anything. Her IAC said it was almost 11:00 in the morning.She ran her hand over her face and her tongue along her teeth, the sour taste making her grimace.With a deep breath, she pulled herself up out of the bed, her anger growing as she wondered who in their right mind would be banging so relentlessly on her door without sending her an IAC message before they dared wake her. If it was a human, she hoped the person had a good excuse, or else she might just snap them in half.“What!” she demanded, slinging the door open. Her eyes widened as she realized who it was. “Lucas….”“Ah, Jo. Hello!” he said, warmly, his arms open as if he might hug her, b
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Time to process the information about Ryker was fleeting. Jo stared at the two men in front of her for a long moment before they reiterated that they’d be waiting downstairs, and she closed the door, still blinking, trying to will herself to make sense of what Adrian had told her. It wouldn’t compute. How could Ryker’s family have been killed by Vampires, and yet, he spent so much time cooperating with the same type of creatures who had killed them? Either he hated his family, or there was so much more to this story, Jo probably wouldn’t have time to hear the whole thing until after she caught Holland, which might take years.While she got herself ready to go on the next leg of the journey, she messaged almost everyone who would be accompanying her to let them know that she was expecting them to be packed and ready to go in a few minutes. None of them were particularly excited to be leaving, though Zane didn’t make a fuss. T
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