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months without calling, at times. The only person she’d miss was her neighbor. “Damn. I have no idea what to do.”
    Gerri grumbled, “I swear I will stop catering to shifters if they don’t start listening to me. I’ve never met a more hardheaded bunch.” She rubbed her temples and shook her head. “I can handle your stuff. Anyone you want me to contact?”
    Liv thought about her grandmother but decided against it. “Give my stepsister Monica a call. She can have someone get my things.”
    “And what would you like me to tell Monica?”
    “That I decided to live off the grid and will figure out when I want to get in touch with her.” She glanced at Bella’s raised brows. “I always joke about doing that, but she never really thought I’d do it.”
    “Anyone else?”
    “My neighbor Cassie. She will worry when I don’t show up for our weekly spa session.”
    Gerri nodded. “Okay. If you think of anything else, contact me. And for the love of my remaining hair, please try to control your men,” she eyed Liv and Bella. “I know it’s not an easy task, but if you two don’t, I will be forced to start smacking people upside the head.” She grinned at them and blew a kiss. “I’ll be in touch.” Her holo-image blinked out.
    Liv didn’t get a chance to ask further questions. There was a slight knock on the door and it opened slowly. Karel peeked his head into the room, scanning the bed and then the rest of the space until he found her sitting, biting into another cookie.
    “Hi,” she said between bites. There was a lot she needed to discuss with him, but Bella being in the room stopped her.
    “Karel, I tempted Liv into eating with me. Are you ready to go?” Bella asked.
    He gave a short nod. “Yes. I came to make sure you were feeling better.” He scanned Liv’s face, his eyes filled with concern.
    She nodded. “Are we going to see your mom now?”
    “Yes.” The ominous tone of his voice made Liv’s belly ache and the cookies taste like sawdust. It had to be hard for him to be away from his mom when things were so bad. Not that she had any clue how sick she was, but he’d said she was dying. That was as bad as things could get.
    “Let me shower and change and we can go.”
     

 
     
     
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    “No,” Liv said emphatically. “I’m not teleporting. I’m sorry but there has to be another way.”
    Karel glanced at the device in his hand and then back at her. “There is. We can take a transport vehicle. I use mine for rare outings, but I keep it here at the castle.”
    She smiled in thanks. “I just don’t think I can handle going through another one of those machines again.”
    “I understand. This will take longer, but we’ll manage to get there.”
    She bit her lip. She shouldn’t be slowing them down, but if he wanted her to go with him, then he’d have to change how they traveled. Her nerves were still jittery from the previous earth to Aurora travel.
    After a stop at the kitchen to gather packaged food stuffs, they went to a back wall of the castle. He pressed his hand on a rock and suddenly the stone wall disappeared. She gaped at the massive opening. It looked like an under-castle garage. There were very cool looking bikes with no wheels on tripod type bases. The bikes were covered with a glass dome with openings on both sides for people to get to the seats.
    “That looks very cool but really fragile,” she told him, feeling the material under her fingertips. The glass felt cool to the touch but really thin. She worried a strong wind would make the whole thing fall to the side.
    “It’s a lot sturdier than you think.” He smiled. Her gaze was riveted on the back of the bike where he pressed at the glass and it slid open to show a compartment for their bags. That was one of the coolest and weirdest thing she’d seen in her life.
    After loading items from around the garage, he offered her a hand and helped her up the base steps. “Let’s get you seated.”
    She