“I’m going crazy from waiting,” Mattie said, looking at the others seated around the dinner table.
“Aren’t we all?” Reni said under her breath. Her tension was palpable, and Dirk knew it wasn’t only because the future of the team, and everyone else involved, hung in the balance.
::He’ll make it out in one piece,:: he told her.
::You don’t know that.::
::I have faith in my father,:: he replied. ::And he has faith in Tonio’s powers, so between them, they will succeed.::
Reni smiled bleakly. ::I pray that you’re right. I don’t know what I’ll do if…if Tonio doesn’t survive. If the bastard turns him into one of his blood slaves, or worse.::
::Reni, believe in him. Believe in them.::
“Dirk, is there any way you can check on them?” Mattie asked. “You must know where they are. You lived her
