"I have told you all everything I know. The noise woke me up, and I rushed out to help Natalie, and one of the men knocked me out. I didn't get a good look at them," Mandy snapped as she gingerly held her arm against her chest. "Where is Nyrissa?!"

Paul was leaning against the desk, giving Mandy a dark look. The anger radiating off him was so obvious that there might as well have been a dark cloud circling him. What made it even worse was that Ryan could feel the same tension in Sam as ...