The women all rode together in silence, Aurora, who had secured the keys from Elliott while Cassidy was still inside, drove, and Cadence sat next to her sister who cradled the baby Vampire like she was her own.

Cassidy’s tears stopped falling about the time they reached the outskirts of Kansas City, but Cadence could tell she was still profoundly upset by what had transpired. This was exactly what she’d been trying to keep her sister protected from. At sixteen, she technically ...