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They both winced. Arrogant fools!

Chapter Twenty-six.

Julius stared and nodded. At least someone could acknowledge my presence.

There was a commotion, and someone flew into me. Cursing, I collapsed to the floor just as a fire of electricity hit where I was standing. The owner of the gun fell as a vampire took him out. Dazed, I looked at the body lying on top of me, and Dan smiled.

“You were told to sit safe,” I snapped, rolling Dan off me and getting to my feet. Annoyed, I pulled him up.

“If we had, you would’ve been caught,” Tony said, standing over the still body of the guard. “Here, help me get this bastard into the cage. Jacques, I gather we need these alive.”

“Yes,” I stated.

Quickly, I assisted Tony in carrying the still body into Ana’s prison. Deftly, I searched through the guard’s pockets, looking for something that would identify him, and found nothing.

“Let’s free the others,” a vampire said. “We’ve captured most of the guards.”

I nodded agreement.

“Ana, Julius, and James stay here. You are not up to full strength and could hinder us,” I ordered sternly.

Ana looked aghast at being treated so, but Julius and James nodded.

“Jacques, we will keep guard on the exit and make sure that no one comes in. Anyone who does, we’ll keep alive,” James replied.

I left the room with Amelia and the six vampires. We came across ten more men as I forced open a door. After knocking them out, I realised it led to more rooms.

“This place feels like a maze,” Amelia remarked as we continued to open door after door.

I had snatched a bunch of keys from a guard that allowed us to open the doors with the least noise. I told the vampires to take the unconscious bodies of the ten guards to the cage and lock them in. They did so without an argument. Carrying on, we discovered the other lost vampires and Vam’pirs. Returning them to the main lab, I sent those able to round up any missing personnel. There were over sixty living people here.

“There is one missing,” James said as he helped Mihal feed.

“Tall bloke, dark blond hair and a bulldog face?” I asked.

James nodded.

“Got him earlier.”

We kept one scientist and one guard alive for answers. The scientist, Dr Warner, was scared out of her wits.

“What is this?” I demanded.

“An experiment to create the perfect soldier,” Warner stammered.

“How did you find out about us?” I asked, crouching down.

“By complete accident. One of the doctors…” Warner broke off as she saw his broken body on the floor.

“Look at me,” I said softly, and she looked into my face, terrified.

“Please don’t hurt me.”

“Answer my question.”

“One of the doctors witnessed one of you feeding. Dr Rainer had been working on an experimental weapon and stalked the vampire he had seen. Rainer caught him with a blast from the Magnetiser, a gun that works on your kind. We brought the vampire here for investigation. Rainer thought that we could copy the DNA from your blood. If we attained the gene that made you unkillable, then utilised this, we’d have the perfect weapon if there were a war.”

“You were analysing our blood?”