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Chapter Five
    Nikola slowly stood and scanned the room. Lissa hugged herself, and in an instant Nikola clothed her in her garb she favored, and moved next to her. Castor took her other side, while Pierre and Adonis took the front and back. “I know you’re there Vender. You are lucky I don’t rip you apart for not announcing yourself.”
    Nikola wrapped his arm around Lissa. “Lissa, I would like to introduce my younger brother, Vender. He has this nasty habit of showing up at the wrong time.”
    Vender laughed and materialized next to them. “Hey, you were the one who taught me, if I remember right. Anyway, mother sent me. She knows you have met your mates, and is expecting you to come by soon, so everyone can meet them.” Vender rolled his eyes, but something was off.
    Lissa once more hugged herself and felt for the knife she knew was in its hiding spot. She didn’t know why Nikola’s brother sent a bad vibe through her, but she would not ignore it as she done with Stephen.
    Nikola nodded. “We’ll be there, but not for a few days. We have business to attend to, which we must leave for now.” Nikola, Lissa and Castor flashed into the main cabin on the island, Pierre and Adonis following a few seconds later.
    “What has happened?” He glanced around the room.
    “Lower Manhattan was attacked last night.” Dane glanced at Remi who nodded. “It’s more like a slaughter. It happened in the middle of the night. Children, women, anyone who was in their path was ripped apart. We don’t have the numbers, but it’s high.” Dane grabbed a beer and nodded towards the large flat screen TV. “You’ve been gone half a day again. It’s three am now.”
    Lissa moved up to his side. “I need a phone.” She asked Nikola and waited.
    “Why? Did you have friends there?” Nikola turned all his attention on her. She shook her head.
    “No, but my best friend will be able to tell me everything. She has contacts that no one else does. We need her here, Nikola. I was telling the women earlier, she could do a series of interviews, which we could released slowly. We do it in phases, but we should do it now, before this gets any worse.”
    Jaycee, Suzanne, Cecil, Shelly and Marsha moved into the room, tears streaming down their faces. “It’s all over cable. Lissa is right. We need to inform the humans now, Remi. They can’t continue to be unprepared like this.” Jaycee rubbed her belly.
    “Those babies, they were strung up…” Her voice cracked and Remi was there in an instant by her side. He picked her up and cradled her as if she weighed nothing.
    “Nikola, bring Lissa’s friend here, make sure everything she’ll need is brought as well. We can set up one of the outer buildings. As a reporting station.” Dominic pulled Suzanne into his arms.
    “I think the first interview should be with Remi. There are many humans that already know him, and trust him for all the work he did during the flooding last year. It will help for them to see a familiar face.” Dominic glanced at Lissa.
    “Who is this person you want to bring here and how is she going to react to all of us?”
    He smiled, when Lissa glanced up at him searching for reassurance. Nikola pulled her into his arms and nibbled her neck. “Tell them, Lissa. We’ll protect her, if she is a friend of yours.”
    “I met Leda Brandywine before the Bloods took me, over fifty years ago. We used to go everywhere, and yes, she knew all about me. I could trust her, she used to tease me all the time. Her father was a Senator, and her mother is a Congresswoman.” She changed the subject real quick, glancing up at him, her cheeks turned a nice shade of pink.
    “What did she tease you about Lissa?” He needled her, and she tried to elbow him.
    She shrugged. “She always accused me of getting the men, because I used my vampire mumbo jumbo on them.” Lissa giggled for the first time. Her face lit up, her body relaxed in his arms as she remembered. “I’ve