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“Nope. Local copy only.” Rodrigo beamed at him. “But in case you get any ideas, there’s more than one copy.”

“Seriously though,” Ryan said to both of them. “Thanks for looking out for me.”

“Anytime, bro,” Rodrigo said.

“We’re family.” Katrina’s eyes danced. “Isn’t that what you told Callum?”

“Speaking of.” Rodrigo took his feet off the table and sat up straight. “Time to call the lawyer. Hopefully, she’ll get input from Lake and Callum as fast as possible. There are no unauthorized people on our server right now, but the team should be back at the server farm soon, and the hunt will start again.”

“While you’re doing that, I’ll call Rachel,” Ryan said. “She’s a partner too.Again. Are the cops still in the building?”

Katrina motioned to the monitors. “There’s four of them at the moment.”

“And no fallout from last night’s adventures?”

“Weirdly, no,” she said.

“Last two questions, and then I’ll call the Queen of the Damned,” Ryan said. “Did someone tell Sarah what happened?”

“Yep,” Katrina said. “She’s fine and says she’ll see you when you get out of here.”

“Thanks. Last question—do we have any food?” As if on cue, his stomach rumbled.

Katrina gestured to the pocket-sized kitchen. “We’re fully stocked, so help yourself.”

“Great.” Ryan got to his feet, glad that he wasn’t too shaky when he did so. “I’ll eat, then call Rachel. Talking to her is best done on a full stomach.”

“You think everything’s best done on a full stomach,” Katrina said.

She wasn’t wrong.

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

“I can’t get hold of Rachel,” Ryan said to Rodrigo and Katrina.

It’d been an hour since he’d finished breakfast, and they were still in the panic room, watching the police roam the building while they waited for the lawyer to talk to Callum and Lake before calling them back.

“I’m getting worried,” he told them. “I’ve left a couple of messages and sent a few texts. She should have replied by now. Something must have happened.”

“It’s only been an hour,” Rodrigo said. “Maybe she’s in the shower or still asleep or away from her phone.”

Ryan almost fell off his chair, but then he remembered that Rodrigo barely knew Rachel. “That woman isneveraway from her phone. I swear she’s part cyborg, and the phone’s jacked into her somehow. You saw her yesterday when the cops tried to take it off her. She’d rather die than let it go. No, something’s very wrong. I’m calling Julia.” He smacked his palm to his forehead. “I can’t. I have her phone.” He rolled his eyes at himself. “I’m calling Sarah.”

He dialed his wife, who picked up straight away. “Are you okay?” she asked, sounding worried.

“I’m fine; the guys dosed me up with pain meds, and my head’s not too bad now. Could sleep for a week though. What about you?”

“We’re all just waiting,” Sarah said. “Have you heard from the lawyer yet?”

“Nope. And I haven’t got through to Rachel either. Has she contacted anyone there?”

Sarah addressed the room before speaking to him again. “We haven’t heard from her either. You don’t think she actually was in labor yesterday, do you?”

“I don’t know what labor would look like for someone like Rachel.”

“Um, the same as it would for any woman?”

“Rachel isn’t any woman. There are days when I’m not sure she’s a woman at all. Do demons give birth like normal people?”