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watched her with wise, worried eyes and she felt powerless against the bottomlessness of his irises, the light-brown palette speckled with green, gold and blue flecks.  She believed he looked through her rather than at her.  
    “Then I will come with you,” he stated resolutely. 
    “What about your sisters?  What about Jackie and Hailey?  What will they do?  They can’t stay here with Jack and his men.”
    “Yeah, this isn’t a day-care,” Jack chimed in and confirmed that he’d been listening to every word she and Kyle had exchanged, not that he’d made an effort to appear otherwise. 
    “See,” Amber added.  “You can’t go.”
    She was trying to deter him from going to keep him safe, but a part of her wanted nothing more than for him to accompany her on her journey. 
    “Hold on a second.  Don’t count me out so fast,” Kyle brightened, though she could not understand why he would be so enthused over being counted in for a hunt that would end with death one way or another.  “I have an aunt that lives over in Armor.”
    “That’s only about fifteen or twenty minutes from here,” Jack pitched his two cents in again.  “And it’s on the way to the interstate.”
    Amber shot him a look of warning and he chuckled.  “Oh, sorry,” Jack shrugged and shrunk back exaggeratedly. 
    “That’s right!” Kyle’s eyes widened and it seemed as if the many colors in them danced.  “We could take them there on our way.”
    “ I don’t have twenty minutes to spare,” Amber said sharply. 
    Amber could not understand why both Kyle and Jack were taking the gravity of their circumstances so lightly.  Kyle had no business going with her.  She would love to have him around, but did not want his life continually in jeopardy.  She could not focus if she were constantly watching out for him, worrying for his well-being and keeping him alive.  But if she did not go, then Kyle and Jack, and the rest of humanity would die.  No doubt existed in her mind about that. 
    “Fine, whatever, you get your way, okay,” she huffed and placed her hands on her hips angrily.  “But this is not a spring break road trip.  We are hunting one of Terzini’s men, a very dangerous man named Arnold Gathers.  And when we find him, I’m going to kill him.  I want to be clear about that.  There will be no room for mercy or negotiating.  Do you understand me?”
    Kyle nodded.
    “I need to hear you say it, I need to hear that you can handle that, Kyle.  He will die.  I will kill him.  There is no other way.”
    “I can handle it,” Kyle said tightly then locked eyes with her. 
    She held his gaze for several beats, gauging his seriousness.  When she determined he was sincere, she glanced at Jack who shrugged his shoulders before returning her attention to Kyle.
    “Fine.  Let’s go,” she said and began walking at a brisk pace, away from both Kyle and Jack.
    “Dawn i s parked behind the barn, by the way.  There’s a tarp over her,” Jack added as she fled.
    “Got it,” Amber called to him.
    “Be careful,” Jack called back.
    Kyle caught up to Amber and walked beside her.  He parted his lips to speak but a melody of notes accompanied by vibrations emanated from the side pocket of her uniform pants.  She reached for the cell phone she kept there.  Only Lord Franklin Terzini and a handful of higher ranking members were in possession of her telephone number, and none of them called her, save for Terzini. 
    A knot began to twist in the pit of her stomach.  She slowly turned the phone and looked to its display screen to see who called.  A number that was only vaguely familiar appeared along with a small photograph icon.  The man in the picture was a member named John.  She knew she needed to answer his call, that if she were to ignore it and Gabriel or Melissa somehow lived, she would be worsening their circumstances. 
    Reluctantly, she answered the call.
    “Hello?” she said into the receiver