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through me and then you just disappeared,” Reed says in a hushed and urgent tone, holding me to him and refusing to let me go.
    “When did you see me?” I ask, giving up trying to see his face. Instead, I hug him back.
    “Seconds ago—I thought…” he trails off as his voice thickens.
    “You thought I was dead?” I ask and he just tightens his grip on me until I wheeze and then he eases his embrace so that I can breath again, but he still doesn’t let me go.
    “How did you do that—send out a piece of you—your emotion to me?” Reed asks.
    “I—my emotion?” I ask in confusion.
    “At first, I thought I was seeing your soul when it approached me, but when it ran into me, right through me—I didn’t know what it was because it didn’t feel like a soul. It was raw emotion—panic and agony—but the scent…I could smell you, it left your scent on my clothes,” he says and pulls me back from him so that I can finally see his eyes. “How did you do that?”
    I shake my head numbly. “I…don’t know,” I say, seeing his beautiful face, his eyes searching mine. “I wanted to warn you—it’s Molly—they turned Molly and now they’re coming here,” I say in a rush. “I didn’t protect her and now they have her—they picked her up at a club—he said he turned her already—they made her a monster and I let them…” My voice breaks and I bury my face in his chest.
    “Brennus?” Reed asks in a dark tone, resting his cheek against the top of my head. “How did he contact you?”
    I manage to nod again, but it takes me a few moments before I can say, “I emailed Molly to tell her I’m alive and I found out she’s not.” Tears leak from my eyes to run down my cheeks. “Brennus made her a Gancanagh. He knows we’re in China. He’s coming. I’m sorry, I blew our cover.”
    “Shh…” Reed just holds me for a few minutes and then he asks in a quiet tone. “Is that how you felt when you learned Molly was changed…sorrow, pain?”
    “Uh huh,” I nod.
    “Your human emotions are…excruciating,” Reed utters in a soft tone. “I had no idea you feel that much. When the image of you hit me with such raw emotion, I could think of nothing but finding you.”
    “You don’t feel that…deeply?” I ask as I sniff to hold back more tears.
    “I do, but I didn’t know that you do too,” he replies. “It was almost unbearable when I thought you may be gone.” I squeeze my eyes closed and hug him tighter.
    “It was not intentional, I didn’t even know I was doing it. I was thinking that I needed to tell you what just happened and then, suddenly, images of me were spinning out of me,” I try to explain.
    “Is that your version of a beam of light? Like the one in the Seven-Eleven? Only you send an image of yourself as light to warn us of what is coming?” Reed asks in a serious tone.
    I grow still in his arms. Is that what I just did? Did I send them out of me? I wonder, feeling overwhelmed by all that is happening to me. “I don’t know, Reed. I wish I came with an owner’s manual or something.”
    Stroking my hair, Reed says, “That is a book I would enjoy reading, Evie. Our timeline just moved up. We have been planning for the Gancanagh since we arrived here. We will have the superior position. Every angle has been analyzed. They will come and they will die.” I close my eyes because fear makes it hard for me to hear what he is telling me. “This changes things, though, I need to call Zephyr—ask him to return here. We have to bring in our reinforcements now. We will tell Dominion where we are, they have been demanding to send a team to protect you—”
    “What?” I ask as my eyes widen in surprise.
    Reed’s expression darkens. “Bodyguards. Dominion has been demanding that you have them to protect you,” he says and he sounds a little sour, like the thought of someone else defending me is making him ill.
    “Do you trust them?” I ask as Brennus’ words echo in my