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As soon as she and Alec had gotten back to their safe house, shortly before dawn, he had mobilized his men to search for the rest of the circle in town. It wasn’t as large as most American cities, and they had a good chance of finding them the old-fashioned way as long as their quarry hadn’t moved on to a bigger place like Paris or London.
And perhaps they had, but Katie was still here in Toulouse. Or at least that’s the sense Diana got whenever she tried to pinpoint the little girl’s location. She’d showered and changed, but neither she nor Alec tried to sleep. They were close to the end, and she could feel time running out.
She was still pacing the room, fingering the toy duck in her hand, when Alec knocked.
“Any luck?” he asked, sitting on the bed with a handful of papers.
“She’
