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home.”
    On a hunch, Misty went to the landline and picked it up. No tone. She opened her cell and dialled Randal.
    “Randal, I am in a weird situation. Can I get some hunters to my location as quickly as possible? I get the feeling I am about to be attacked by some sort of fey. My instincts are going crazy.”
    “I am activating your locator now, and I will send a team as quickly as I can. Expect them in ten minutes.”
    “Righto. Tell them to knock.”
    “Take care. Hide, if you can, until we get there.”
    “No can do. My mate can’t hide that well. He already got caught once.”
    “The cougar?”
    “The very same. Why, did he come around there?”
    “He wanted to know everything about you, and Jenner was helpful.”
    “Of course he was. You have nine minutes.”
    She hung up and looked at a curious Samuel.
    She sat on the edge of the bed and raised her eyebrows. “You quizzed them about me?”
    “I did. What is going on?”
    “My instincts tell me that something is about to happen and I am never wrong.”
    He scowled. “Why do you think that?”
    “Your landline is dead, so is your alarm system. No offense but that doesn’t go offline even if you are missing. I am guessing that you have a business manager to handle your accounts?”
    “I do.”
    “Then everything should have remained on. There would have been no reason to turn them off if you were expected to be found or to return any day.”
    He frowned. “I never thought of it like that.”
    “Of course not. You were surviving. This was the sort of thing that was my job. I am in a new environment, so I am looking at everything and this looks wrong.”
    Samuel looked around. “Come to think of it, I never leave my computers out if I am leaving. I always take at least one with me. She is behaving wrong.”
    Misty exhaled now that he was seeing it as well.
    She went to him and took his hand. “I am sure she is fine and that I am just paranoid.”
    Just as she finished those words, the door opened downstairs and nearly silent footfalls came up the stairs.
    Samuel mouthed the words, “Your team?”
    She shook her head and waved a finger around her. Her team would come in by transport centred on her signal.
    He nodded and pointed to a wall. With a few deft touches, he opened the door and the footfalls picked up speed.
    She heard the words, “The damned panic room!”
    Samuel pulled her inside the room, and he yanked the door shut just as three elves barged into the bedroom, with Leda leading the way.
    The door bolts clanged into place and Samuel slid the secondary lock to hold the bolts. It had all been done manually and only Samuel had enough strength to carry it off.
    In the silence of the lined space, Misty looked around at the ambient lighting and nodded. “Very nice, but why do you have a panic room? This isn’t what our kind normally do when confronted.”
    He grinned and took a seat at the table. “It came with the house. Well, you had some dead-on instincts. That explains my abduction as well.”
    “Yup, but we are now down to the why, even though we have the who and the how.”
    Thuds struck the outer wall in a repetitive pattern.
    “It will take them hours to get through here. What shall we do while we wait?”
    She sighed. “I was hoping for a drink of water.”
    He got up and opened a bar along one wall. “Ask and you shall receive. We also have snacks and dried fruit.”
    She smiled. “Oh, fruit please.”
    He brought her a bottle of water and a package of dried fruit.
    “The bathroom folds out from that panel against the wall. I can turn my back if needed.”
    She opened the package of dried fruit and dug out an apricot. “We won’t be here that long.”
    Smiling, she looked at her phone. “Five minutes.”
    “What happens in five minutes?”
    “We are joined by a hunter team. The elves think they have caught you flat with no communications. That isn’t the case. I called the right people, and they will send help by