“I am too.” I thought about the way some of the vampires had tried to grab warriors and leave with them. That had been bothering me since the attack. “If I didn’t know better, I’d think they were trying to capture us, not kill us.”
A kettlebell hit the floor on the far side of the room, drawing our attention to Sara. I went to pick it up and bring it back to her.
“Are you okay?” I asked because she looked a little shaken.
She gave me a tight smile. “Great. Sometimes I don’t know my own strength.”
I set the weight on the floor and joined Desmund again. We watched her resume the exercise for a minute before he spoke.
“You are fortunate then that help arrived.”
“Yes,” I replied, thinking about the masked man I’d spoken to briefly in the backyard. I was annoyed when he took off, but afte
