Liam thought that James' ideas were the best he had heard in a long time, but he shoved them to the side. He wasn't ready to face or dwell on the issue of Nicole yet, not until he had traced the source of the magic that had almost killed him and found whoever sent them.

He walked back into the bar, where piercing screams of the captives being interrogated could be heard. He found James talking to one of the interrogators.

"Everything here was a set-up." The lanky man announced, ...