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the front door. Fast moving clouds hid the moon, making the night seem darker.
    It was a night for wreaking havoc.
    Ulrik got into his McLaren Spider and drove away from the manor on the west coast of Scotland. It would take him a few hours to drive back to the store, but that was time he didn’t have.
    He waited until he was forty minutes from Mikkel’s before he pulled over at a small village. He went inside a restaurant and used his new skill of teleporting to take him to Dreagan.
    As always, he arrived in his mountain. It was the one place he knew he could go that no one at Dreagan would ever think to look for him.
    From there he used the tunnels below the mountains to take him toward the mountain connected to Dreagan Manor. Dreagan was on high alert, which made Ulrik waste more time avoiding Kings who patrolled the tunnels.
    He paused to look in on his Silvers for a moment. Later he would go and spend more time with them. For now, he had to find Kinsey and Esther.
    Ulrik located Esther first. She was lying on a chunk of rock, unmoving. The mortal Henry North paced the cavern as Banan attempted to talk to him.
    Next to Ester in the adjoining cavern was none other than Kinsey, who was also unconscious. Except Ulrik didn’t find Ryder with her. It was Con and Dmitri.
    Ulrik wondered why neither of the mortals had been killed yet. Unless Con sent Ryder away as he’d done to Ulrik so long ago. But the Kings didn’t look as though they were getting ready to slay a human.
    They were in their locations for battle.
    Just what was going on? This wasn’t what he’d expected to see when he arrived. No wonder Harriet was so sure she could get Kinsey to do what she wanted.
    Ulrik wished he’d learned exactly what it was Harriet and her team had done to Kinsey and Esther, because it was enough that they knew the women weren’t dead.
    Some kind of tracking device perhaps? That was the most plausible answer.
    Ulrik ducked into the cavern across the narrow corridor as he heard voices. He saw Tristan and Roman walk into the chamber where Kinsey was.
    “Tristan, I need to see if you can get into her mind,” Con ordered.
    Ulrik moved to the other side of the cave opening so he could see across the way into Kinsey’s cavern. He watched as Tristan moved to stand at her head. Then he placed his hands on either side of her head and closed his eyes.
    “I can no’ find her,” Tristan said with a frown.
    Ulrik knew then that Kinsey hadn’t truly betrayed Ryder by her own choice. Mikkel and Harriet were controlling her. And that changed everything.

Chapter Forty
    Ryder finished going through the log of Kinsey’s every key stroke since she’d arrived at Dreagan. He’d expected to find instances where she saved information about Dreagan and forwarded it or even downloaded it to a PIN drive.
    Yet there was nothing.
    Kinsey was good, but she wasn’t good enough to get through his firewalls because there hadn’t been enough time when she was alone to get through them.
    Even if she had broken through his firewalls, that would’ve immediately sent him an alert. But there hadn’t been any sort of alert.
    It was as if Kinsey had done nothing more than try and clear her name. Yet Ryder knew that couldn’t be the truth. He had damning evidence of her agreeing to spy on Dreagan for Kyvor.
    He checked a second and third time, but there was still no evidence that proved Kinsey did anything other than what he’d asked her to do.
    Ryder hid the virtual keyboard and pushed back from the table. With a sigh, he got to his feet and walked from the computer room.
    The manor was strangely quiet as he made his way downstairs. It seemed so odd after the cornucopia of laughter and conversation around the dinner table just a few hours earlier.
    The silence and stillness reminded him what Dreagan had been like after they sent their dragons away and took to their mountains.
    Ryder stopped when he descended the last stair. His mind ran through