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Reece

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I woke to the feeling of my Little Bunny frantically sitting up and searching for me in the bed like she thought I wouldn't be right there with her. Like I had anywhere else to be. She was scared for some reason. Her heart was racing, I could feel it as I slipped my arm around her and pressed myself against her to let her feel that I was right here with her.

"What is it Little Bunny?" I asked her, my voice soothing with no hint of the worry I felt.

"We need to go. We have to get home. Now!" The breathlessness of her voice, the fear that was resonating in her tone, and below all that the anger that was slowly vibrating, all these combined to set my hackles on edge.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

"Edmond is on his way to our home. He is going to go after and attack our people." I felt my heart stop and my stomach drop at those words. Edmond? He was making his move now?

We were out of the bed and getting dressed in the blink of an eye, it happened so fast that I didn't even get to spare a glance at my wife as she changed. We weren't scheduled to take off from the airport for another twelve hours, but we didn't have that kind of time. We needed to leave now.

Once we were dressed we started to alert the abbey. Pounding on door after door dragging sleepy individuals out of their beds. Once we had woken everyone that was down our hall we told them what the problem was, there wasn't an unaffected face in the bunch.

"He's going to Colorado Springs?" Vincent looked like someone had just punched him in the gut, with a knife. "No, he can't. We need to stop him." The worry that was plain as day on his face showed how much he was afraid for his family at that moment.

"That's what we plan to do." I assured him as I put a bracing hand on his shoulder. I could feel the tension coursing through him, surging stronger and stronger every second.

"We need to get going now." Trinity spoke to them in a voice full of command and authority.

"But we're not scheduled to fly out for several hours." Shane pointed out.

"And this is a situation where Reece can definitely throw his money around to fix. I don't care if I have to buy both airports, I am taking off from here in less than two hours and we will be landing back home with no issues." Her voice was rising in volume but lowering in tone at the same time. It was an unsettling sound.

"Let's not go spending that much money before we have to. I'm sure you'll find that I can be quite persuasive. For now we need to wake up everyone else and get the hell out of here." I put an arm around her, pulling her close in an attempt to calm her frustration a little. Who would have ever thought that I would be the calm and rational one between us. Whatever she saw while she was sleeping had really scared her.

We split into several groups after that, going from floor to floor and room to room waking up everyone in the abbey and then the village. Gabriel was just as shocked as we were when he had heard the news and started preparing to leave at once.

It wasn't even half an hour after Little Bunny had woken from her nightmare prophecy dream and we were all ready to go. I had called home to let Noah know what was going on. Those who had already planned to come back with us were going to be flying back on my plane, while the others would be taking seats on another flight departing later in the day.

I hoped that we would be there and ready for Edmond long before he showed his sorry ass to anyone in my city. But for now it was nothing more than a tense waiting game. We all piled into cars and SUVs to head to home.

If I ever thought we had a long caravan before, it was nothing compared to this one. This train of vehicles stretched at least fifty long. And we all sped together through the dark, quiet, pre dawn streets and roads. Not one vehicle in our party adhered to the speed limit as we hurried on our way.

Several laws were broken but we made it to the airport in less than an hour, effectively cutting the drive time in half. Together we marched into the airport. A horde of nearly two-hundred people really makes an impression on people when they all show up at once.

The big execs at the airport weren't very happy when I announced what it was I needed. They tried to complain about me in French while stalling, but my adorable little wife and I put them in their place when we countered them right back in French as well.

Little Bunny had been right. With enough money changing hands we had the clearance to take off within minutes. And with another copious sum of money, I paid for a flight to be cancelled and redirected to Colorado. The rest of the Sentinelle would be flying back on that flight, all except for the non fighters who would be staying behind to care for the abbey.

We were on the plane and preparing to take off within half an hour of showing up at the airport. Trinity got exactly what she wanted, less than two hours for the take off. It was three AM here and with the flight time and time change we would be arriving home around ten in the morning. That felt so weird to think about, it would be five in the evening here when we landed in Colorado. I hate time changes.

Once we were settled on the plane I turned to my Little Bunny and gave her a serious look. I needed to know what she had seen that had scared her so much. She was looking out the window, her forehead resting on the seat and she was clearly exhausted.

"Trinity." I called her name softly but she jumped, startled by the sound coming from so close to her.

"Yes." She turned to look at me, her eyes were red like she had been crying but her face was dry. She was tired and upset and I didn't yet know why.

"What did you see?" She just shook her head and started to look away from me, but I put a hand on her chin forcing her to look back at me. "Sweetheart, tell me, please. Don't you know a burden shared is a burden lessened? Tell me and let me help you." I pleaded with her.

I saw my wife take a deep shuddering breath, her eyes closed and her brows creased. She released that breath on another shudder before taking another, more steady breath. Finally, she opened her eyes and looked at me.

"I was given a message about Edmond. He's going back to where all his troubles began."

"Troubles? He has troubles?"

"Me." The one word said it all. She was the wrench that was thrown into his plans, she was the one standing in his way. He wanted to stop her, and he knew how to do it.

"We will stop him." I hugged her tight to my side. "The gods warned you for a reason."

"It wasn't the gods." Her voice was so even and flat that I knew it wasn't a joke, but I didn't understand at first.

"If it wasn't the gods, then who?"

"Edmond's children." I was confused, and didn't follow that for a moment. With an eyebrow quirked I asked her the only thing that came to my mind.

"What children?"

"All the ones he experimented with before. The others that were just like me."

"And you're sure it wasn't a trick from him?" I was worried for a moment after hearing these words.

"No, I know what I felt, and I know it was real. The gods probably helped to facilitate the meeting, but it was my dead brothers and sisters that gave me the message."

"I'm sorry you had to see that." I chaffed my hand up and down her arm for comfort more than warmth.

"There were so many of them, Reece. He killed so many of his own children. Hundreds of them. It was horrible. He's a monster."

"We will stop him, honey. I promise he won't do it again."

"I can't let him hurt another child Reece. Some of them were little children. I can't bear to think about that." She had turned her face and sobbed the last of those words into my chest as I held her.

"He won't. He has you and me to contend with now, and he is going to regret it."

We flew the rest of the way home holding each other close and sleeping when we could manage it. We would need our rest for the coming fight.