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green.  Georgio waved the dock side wolves over as one of them tied off the small craft.  “Where is Mario?” he asked.
    “We have not seen him since you dropped off the soldier.” One replied. 
    “He left shortly after.  We asked where he was going, but he said only that he had an errand.” The other added.
    “Do either of you have the number to the phone that he gave Jack?” Nadia asked, desperation painted across her face.
    They looked at each other and shrugged.  “We know nothing of a phone.” The first one said. 
    Georgio moaned.  “I have a bad feeling, miss.  Perhaps we should inform S eñor Thorn?”
    “Does anybody have a phone I can use to call the island?” she asked.  The smaller man fished a cell phone from his jacket and handed it to her.  Nadia stepped off to the side and called for Rufus, quickly filling him in.  As she feared, he knew nothing of a satellite phone and although he didn’t approve all of the wolves who cycled through, he had no knowledge of this Mario the stable wolf either.  He feared the Lamia Humanus had infi ltrated their ranks and had set something in motion.
    Nadia was near hysterics as Rufus did his best to calm her.  Rather than send them via commercial air, Rufus would send them on his private plane.  There would be no waiting and they could leave as soon as they could get to the small airport nearby.  They could file their flight plan while Nadia and her mother were en route.  Nadia thanked him profusely, but Rufus knew that he was also protecting his best chance at saving his own people.  Without the support of the Monster Squads, the Lamia Beastia would surely fall to both the human hunters and the H umanus familia in short order.  Rufus didn’t know if God would hear the prayer of a vampire, but it did not stop him from sending Him one in hopes that He would protect both the wolves en route to Jack’s aid and the human hunters that he hoped would one day assist him and his people.
    Georgio loaded their bags into the minivan and they headed to the private airport.  A small jet was waiting for them, its e ngines warmed up and the pilot standing by.  Nadia and Natashia practically sprinted from the vehicle and up into the waiting plane, time their biggest enemy.  Not only to warn Jack, but knowing that the full moon was that night and neither could fight its pull.
    As the plane taxied into position and began its departure, Nadia turned to her mother and asked her the question that had been nagging her all along.  “What if we are too late?”
    “My love, do you regret mating yourself to him?” she knew the answer before asking the question.
    “Of course not.  I just hope…”
    “Nadia, you’ve always been…’sensitive’ to certain things.” She said.  “I am certain we will be in time, and he will be safe.  Rufus is searching for this Mario, they will find the way to contact him on the satellite phone and all will be fine by the time we get there.”   Natashia sat back in the overstuffed leather chair and appeared, for all intent and purpose as if she was leaving for holiday.  “We will most likely arrive in time for Jack to be departing for the island and we will all be laughing about this.  You worry over nothing.”
    Nadia rolled her eyes at her mother.  “I appreciate your a ttempt at levity, mother, but we both know that when I get these feelings, bad things happen.  And when they surround one person, then bad things happen to that person, unless I can warn them.”
    “Jack is a big boy, my dear.  He can most certainly handle himself.  If nothing else, he can give the threat a ‘purple nurple of death’.” She said flatly, looking out her window.  She slowly turned to her daughter and their slow smiles turned into giggles.  When their giggles were over she went to sit beside Nadia and pulled her into an embrace.  “Trust me, darling.  He is a warrior.  And he is surrounded by warriors.  Whatever this threat