Chapter XVIII
TALI CHOOSING JULIANA PARK as our meeting spot didn’t surprise me. We’d closed down a huge chunk of it, and the place was practically deserted at night. And if we lost, the portal was right there. They could grab the queen, drag her there and start working on her to get it open. I still itched to send everyone away, make sure they were safe. I knew no one would listen, so I tried focusing on something more productive. Like testing out their theory about being hard to spot, even by supervamps.
Trying to locate my allies without inadvertently blowing their cover proved more difficult than I imagined. I discovered some, but only because I knew where to look, otherwise I’d have dismissed them as shadows cast by the trees.
The hairs on the back of my neck and on my arms stood o
