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freaking out. Ryder took hold of me firmly, pulled me toward the bar and lifted me over it. Neave and the others followed. Together, we hid behind the bar, watching everyone else trying to scramble out the doors.
    Luke crawled over to me. “Faustine, I’m going to take you home. Come with me. Ryker, could you get the twins home?”
    “Home? You’ve got to be kidding! We need to find out what that noise was,” I said.
    “No, we don’t,” Luke said firmly.
    I flashed my ring at him. “Yes. We. Do,” I said firmly and climbed back over the bar. The room was much less crowded now, more than half the people had gone, and the rest were getting ready to leave. Through the open doors, I saw cop cars arriving, and shortly afterward, uniformed policemen strode in. I watched them walk over to the men’s restroom. Within seconds, a lockdown was ordered. The club doors were firmly shut, preventing anyone else from exiting.
    “I wonder what’s going on,” I whispered, looking up at Luke who was standing next to me.
    “I have no idea, but this lockdown is not good. It means we’re all about to be questioned.”
    “Well, we’ll just tell them what we heard,” I shrugged.
    “Princess, they are going to wonder about our eyes. They’ll probably think we’re high and want blood tests. Not good.”
    “Oh, yeah.”
    “I can get Faustine out. But that still leaves you, Luke,” Ryker said.
    “I can temporarily make my eyes seem less red. But, the main thing is that Faustine gets out. Can you take her home?”
    “Attention, everyone!” boomed a loud voice through the speakers. “We have a situation. Everyone remain calm. An officer will come around and take your contact information so we can let you go home. We’ll update you when we can.”
    “Faustine, go,” Luke directed.
    “Hold on! I want to know what’s going on first.”
    “You didn’t hear?” Luke asked, looking at me in confusion.
    “I heard the screech all right. Now I want to know what’s going on.”
    “Weren’t you eavesdropping on the conversation in the restroom between the cops?” He shrugged.
    Embarrassing. What kind of a pathetic demon was I? I bet even the vamp twins knew what was going on. They had enhanced hearing as well. I was the only one who had totally forgotten to use mine. Sheesh. May as well send this ring right back to Dorian. I pursed my lips at Luke and heard Neave let out a snort.
    “Really?” Luke asked, amazed.
    “Just tell her,” Audrey said in an exasperated voice.
    “They found a body in the men’s restroom.  It was totally mangled, shredded to bits like an animal had been at it,” he said, looking at the vamp twins.
    “It wasn’t us!” Viola spluttered.  “We fed before we came. And I don't care how hungry we are, we would never go into the men’s room to feed. Gross. Besides, shredded? Sounds more like a werewolf’s M.O.”
    “Anyhow,” I said, “that doesn’t explain the sound we heard. It couldn’t have come from the victim; it was too... well, not human.”
     “Faustine, I need you out of here. Now. The cops are just starting to make the rounds. So, unless you can dial down the red, get out of here. Now,” Luke ordered.
    “Ready?” Ryker whispered, and drew me close to him. I had no idea how he was planning to get me out. All I felt was a warm blanket of peace and a floaty feeling as I closed my eyes. When I opened them seconds later, I was back in my bedroom.
    “Wow! How did you do that?” I asked.
    He smiled. His lips curled more on the left side of his mouth. Cute.
    “Do you know that’s the first thing you’ve ever said to me?”
    I nodded.
    “Do you know what I am?”
    “A Wanderer,” I whispered.
    “Close. I’m a Sigma-Wanderer, which means I can travel geographically, as well as through time and dimensions. So transporting you over here was relatively easy.”
    “Well, thanks. I owe you one.”
    He laughed. “Let me take you out to dinner.”
    “Sure. By the way, how did