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He
glanced both ways down the hall before Traveling inside.
    The apartment was small and brightly lit.
Music played quietly, along with a television, and popcorn popped
in the microwave. The cell phone he had tracked was plugged into a
laptop with a lit screen on a coffee table in front of the
television. He frowned, uncertain why he couldn’t sense anyone when
everything indicated someone was here.
    He crossed to the breakfast bar area, which
was littered with mail, chargers for electronics and a digital
picture frame.
    Shit. He studied one of the pictures taken several years before. In
it Ashley and her brother were grinning, their arms wrapped around
the blond Jessi, who beamed.
    “What the hell are you doing here?”
    Jonny turned. He had only sensed Brandon’s
presence a split second before the college student spoke. It dawned
on him why. Their cousin Jessi had the ability to move in stealth
mode, completely undetectable until she was within about a meter of
someone else. Brandon had to have inherited the gift as well.
    But if Brandon’s gift was stealth mode, that
left Ashley as the fighter and Jonny … disbelieving.
    “You can’t be here!” Brandon was tense, his
glare on Jonny.
    “You stole something of mine. I want it
back, and I’ll be on my way.” Jonny raised his hands.
    Brandon was staring at him. “How did you
find me?”
    “The phone.”
    Brandon glanced towards it then swore,
crossing to yank it free of the computer.
    “I just want it back,” Jonny repeated.
    “You came here for a phone?”
    “Yep.”
    “No other reason?”
    Jonny understood the pointed look without
Brandon saying anything about his sister directly. His irritation
stirred. “Xander and Damian know you’re beating up my vamps?”
    Brandon went rigid.
    “I didn’t think so,” Jonny said and shook
his head. “Don’t be stupid, Brandon. Stop targeting my vamps.”
    “Stop hurting innocent people and we
might.”
    We. Double shit. It was getting harder to deny the obvious. “It’s
what I do. No need for you to get involved.”
    Brandon threw the phone at him.
    Jonny caught it. “You get off with a warning
this time because of who you’re related to,” he said. “I’ll take
matters into my own hands next time.”
    “Get out, Jonny.”
    Jonny reached into his pocket and pulled
Ashley’s necklace free. “Tell your sister not to come near my vamps
again.” He set the necklace on the breakfast bar.
    Without another word, Jonny Traveled out of
the apartment to the sidewalk outside. He was tenser than usual. He
pocketed the phone, relieved to have it back, and glanced up at the
building. He hoped his personal warning would scare the siblings
straight. If they were anyone else …
    He shook his head. He’d eat one and feed the
other to his vamps. Guardians weren’t off limits like humans. As
for Naturals … he’d never had a reason to consider what to do with
them since most were either under the protection of Guardians to
start off with or he had no way to identify them with his destroyed
infrastructure. It seemed like an oversight not to have a policy
for interacting with Naturals.
    At least he had some leverage if they hadn’t
told either the White God or their protector what they were doing.
If they failed to obey him, he could alert Xander first and then
act.
    Jonny shoved his hands into his pockets and
began walking, waiting until he was out of sight of anyone else
before Traveling back to his home.
    So Ashley was a Natural warrior, and her
brother was on stealth mode. As soon as he’d realized whose
apartment he was in, he’d experienced a thrill and hoped to see
Ashley, not her brother. The disappointment and relief flickering
through him were baffling. How was he eager to see a girl he hadn’t
set eyes on in over four years? One he’d last seen before the war
with the Others, and who he’d walked away from after she realized
he betrayed her?
    There was no place for emotion or the past
in his