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Trevor led the way back outside, Damon already cloaking them. Then Damon took over, hotwiring a car for their use. They kept a wary eye on their surroundings, just in case her father popped up. Even cloaked, if the limo ran into their cloaked vehicle, that was a dead giveaway. That was a complication they really couldn’t afford right now, not when they had a more urgent need to deal with finding a bomb at Bullard’s compound. As they quickly hopped into the vehicle, Damon drove them toward Bullard’s.

Trevor’s phone rang. Bullard . Trevor put it on Speakerphone and told Bullard, “We’re on the way, and, yes, she’s with us, but it was a hard decision for her to agree. However, according to her, somebody’s cut your power and is trying to get into the compound and has a second bomb in place, so ensure everybody’s on full alert. She mentioned the power box outside on the street. Do you have one out there?”

When Bullard replied on the other end, Trevor turned and nodded at her. “Get the city to shut it down. Reeni says there’s a problem with it. I can’t tell you what the problem is, but there’s a problem.” That ended the call. He asked her, “Are you doing okay?”

She shrugged. “I’m fine.”

Yet he watched her wrap her arms around herself, hugging herself tightly. He smiled. “You’ll be fine.” She didn’t say anything, and he knew that trust was a really big thing for her right now. He wanted to beat the hell out of her asshole of a father for having put her in this position time and time again. At that thought, he sent a text off to Terk, bringing him up to speed. Terk sent back a thumbs-up, adding they would include Levi into the loop, all looking into it further.

Trevor didn’t know what that meant, but, if anybody could look into this shit, it would be Terk first and foremost. Also Trevor remembered how Ice’s father was a doctor in California and had his own clinic. So maybe Levi could use those connections to at least get information on how to stop this institutionalization of Reeni. Trevor could see why in some cases that it would be necessary, yet the potential for abuse of such processes gave him pause.

Reeni’s father didn’t seem to be the least bit concerned about finding out if his daughter was truly of sound mind. Trevor winced. Anybody else’s father might be misguided, believing he was doing the best thing possible for his child. However, Trevor knew Reeni’s father to be power-mad and not the least bit concerned about anybody but himself.

They pulled into the compound now. As they neared the gate, she stiffened, then relaxed. “He fixed it,” she muttered in amazement.

“Of course,” Damon replied. “That’s what he does.”

“Yeah, well, he’ll have to do a lot more of that coming up if he doesn’t smarten up,” she muttered.

Damon grinned. “Just relax. We got you with us, so we got this.”

She glared at him but sighed. When they got out, she stopped in front of the compound, looked around, and pointed. “I need to go over there.” She headed off at a fast clip. Damon and Trevor fell in by her side, and so did several of Bullard’s men. By the time she got to the corner that bothered her, she stopped and surveyed it. “Anybody else feel the electricity coming off this thing?’ she asked.

“I do,” Damon confirmed. “Not sure exactly what we’re looking at though.”

“Neither am I,” she admitted, “but something started this.” She looked back toward the compound. “Did he get ahold of the city to shut down this line?”

At that, one of the other men spoke up. “He’s trying, but they’re arguing against it.”

She raised one eyebrow. “Arguing?”

“It’ll shut down power to a lot of people,” he explained, “so they won’t do it without proof.”

“Proof?” she repeated. “Are you serious?” He just nodded. She looked back at Trevor. “What proof do I need to give them?”

He snorted. “Something that doesn’t cause a lot of damage and won’t reflect badly on Bullard.”

“That doesn’t give me much for options.”

“I understand,” Trevor agreed, “but we’re trying to get along, remember?”

“No,” she corrected. “ You are trying to get along. I gave that up when Bullard threatened to not let me out of here.” Several of the other men stiffened at that, and she turned and glared at them. “I don’t give a shit what you think about that. Believe me that I’m only concerned about self-preservation at the moment.”

“So are we,” replied one of the men. “We have family, friends, and children here, so, if you can do anything to stop whatever is going on, just do it.”

She sighed, then walked over to one of the power lines and stretched out a hand to it.

Trevor called out, “Are you sure you want to do that?”

“No, of course I don’t want to do that,” she replied in exasperation, “but nobody else can.”

He walked over and placed his hand on her shoulder to help ground her.

She frowned. “It shouldn’t be that bad.”

“ Shouldn’t be is a whole different story than will be ,” he muttered. “Once that energy hits you, it could cause a lot of damage—to you.”

She shrugged. “Maybe that’s an easy answer to everything too.” And she immediately grabbed hold of the power line.

Nothing happened at first, then came a weird rumbling, and sparks started to fly. She held on another minute, and Trevor felt the power surging through her. Yet he had no idea just what she had done.

“You can disconnect now,” she told him. “That should be enough for the city officials to act now.”

Trevor let his hand drop and took several steps back, grateful that he and Reeni were alive. If that had happened without her around, he knew full well the result wouldn’t have been the same.

Two of the other men walked closer, and she held up a hand. “Careful, a lot of power flows through here, still through me and Trevor as well.” She turned to face everyone. “We’ll come toward you very slowly, but you need to contact the city and tell them to get their ass over here.”

“It’s already done,” Bullard announced, suddenly appearing in front of her. “Did you just set off a power shortage?”

“No, I don’t do that. All I do is see energy, so really what I do is completely useless.”

He frowned at her. “It doesn’t look useless to us. I’m not sure what all is going on here, but it seems as if it’s the opposite of useless.”

“But the trouble is, I can’t stop this mess. I can tell you that something funky is going on, but I can’t even tell you exactly what is happening,” she muttered in a disgusted tone of voice. “I don’t ever get full information. I just get bits and pieces. Right now those bits and pieces tell me that whoever is playing with electricity is targeting you guys for whatever reason. Bullard anyway,” she added, with an eyeroll. At that comment came a snort behind Reeni. She turned to see Leia, looking a bit abashed, and Reeni frowned. “Sorry.”

“Not at all,” Leia declared, with a smile. “Believe me that Bullard can irritate all of us at times, but he is all heart and only looking to protect us.”

Reeni nodded. “I’m glad you believe that.” Hearing sirens heading their way, Reeni muttered, “Good thing.” She then moved away. “You really don’t want me around here when they come in asking what the hell happened.”

“Could you even explain anything to them?” Trevor asked.

“Nope, I sure couldn’t.” And she stepped farther back and away, but closer to Trevor.

He grinned at her and suggested, “Do you want to put on that little old helpless me look?”

“Gee, that’s no problem,” she muttered. “That’s what’s expected, isn’t it?”

Trevor thought she seemed curious and frightened, definitely not the one who had instigated a power shortage or surge or overload or whatever she did.

Leia laughed. “Come on inside. I’ve got coffee on.”

“Coffee would be good.… Is Dave around?”

“Dave’s in the kitchen.” Leia seemed puzzled. “Why?”

“If he’s in the kitchen, that means there might be food, or maybe there will be soon, right?”

“There’s always food here,” Leia stated. “After whatever you just did here, I presume you’ll need to plow through some.”

Reeni shrugged. “Yeah, though it would have been worse if Trevor hadn’t grounded me.”

“Is that what he does?”

“That’s what he did,” she declared, with a fading grin. “The ground allows the energy to flow into the ground, so he helps to center it, to direct it, even though he doesn’t know that’s what he’s doing.”

“So, I presume what he did was offer you stability?”

“Yes, that’s exactly it,” she stated, smiling at Leia.

“We’ve run into other gifted people here,” she explained, with a half laugh. “Somebody working here with me as a nurse had quite the abilities too. We had hoped she would stay with us, and she’s talking about coming back for a while, which would be great. She had healing abilities such as we’ve never seen before.”

“Yeah, and the minute you’ve seen it once, somebody else comes along with something else you’ve never seen,” she murmured.

“Yeah, like you.” Leia smiled. “We’re just so happy to see you.”

Reeni didn’t know what to do with the emotions that Leia’s words stirred up within. That sense of truth so evident to Leia made Reeni uncomfortable.

Leia nodded. “You haven’t had a whole lot of good things in your life lately, have you?” she asked, as she led the way.

Trevor kept close to Reeni, while nodding at Leia’s perceptive insights.

Leia continued. “And I’m sorry for whatever happened between you and Bullard. It would only have been because he’s worried about us.”

“Yep,” Reeni conceded, “that makes sense.” But there was still no give in her tone.

She knew that to give in right now to all these emotions, good and bad, could be catastrophic when she had so much else going on in her world. Her father was the biggest threat to her sanity right now. So it was far better to keep everybody out, keep them as allies yet at a distance, and just let it all be. Right now, she did need food though, particularly after that interaction with the live power line. She asked Trevor, “Did you feel any of that?”

“Yep, I sure did,” he declared, looking down at his hand that had been on Reeni’s shoulder throughout the whole event. “Never would have thought I could hold that level of electricity in my hand and not get burned.”

“Yet we were grounded,” Reeni stated, pointing that out.

“We were, and for somebody who doesn’t understand very much about how this all works, it seems funny to hear you say that.”

She glared at him but silently walked into the kitchen.

Dave looked up with a big smile, then bolted to his feet and gave her a gentle hug. “Here you are to the rescue again, and I, for one, am very grateful.”

She sighed. “Still not sure how much I helped.”

“Of course not, but apparently you just did. I saw what happened out there,” he shared. “Are you okay?”

“I’m fine but… hungry.” Her stomach growled, as if on cue.

His face lit up. “And that is definitely part of my domain. Go sit. and I’ll bring you a hot cup of coffee and some food.”

While she sat nearby and watched, Dave brought out lasagna from one of the ovens and a huge salad from the fridge. He quickly served her a large portion of each and placed the food in front of her. “Go ahead and get started. The others will be along in a few minutes.”

“Bullard’s back too,” Reeni added.

Dave nodded. “Good.” Then he added in a sympathetic tone, “You really don’t need to fear him.”

She just glared at him, and he returned to the counter, filling serving dishes. Trevor sat down beside her, looking at the meal in front of her and smiled. “You should ask Dave for some too,” she suggested. “You used up a lot of energy grounding me.”

“Not as much as you did though,” he noted cheerfully. “I’m doing okay.”

A plate of food was placed in front of him very quickly too. “Thanks, Dave. I don’t know what we would do without you,” he noted.

“You would all starve,” Dave declared instantly, making them burst out laughing. “Yet we all have our special gifts, and are doing what we can in an ugly situation.”

“Yeah,” Trevor agreed. “That is very true.”

“Do we have any more information as to who it is, what’s going on, and why?” Dave asked.

Trevor looked to Reeni, and she shook her head. “Nope, other than the threat of a second bomb being around here, I don’t know anything about that. At least not yet. I usually feel the energy gathering before any explosions happen. So I’m waiting for that, then I can follow the energy to the bomb. At least I hope so.”

“The way you did at the apartment building?” Dave noted.

She nodded. “All I can tell you now is that I sense energy coming from far across town. It’s not here yet.”

“I’m glad you came back,” Dave said, with a smile. “Eat up now. You don’t need to wait for the others.”

“It’s still not resolved though. All I did was ensure the power company had to come out. That won’t stop this intruder.”

“So, you’re thinking it was sabotage? Somebody messed with the power box?”

Reeni nodded. “It was sabotage at the power box, and that leads here to the house. What comes after this, I don’t know for sure.” She shrugged. “That’s what you guys are supposed to do, not me. It’s all I can do to handle the shit I have to handle as it is.”

Then she picked up her fork and took her first bite. She sighed happily and started plowing into the food.

*

Trevor watched Reeni eat. He ate a whole lot slower than Reeni did, but she was eating fast enough that he was a little worried that she could keep it down.

When she finally slowed, several others appeared shocked at how she ate so much, so fast. She frowned at them and returned to her food, although eating much slower now. Then she stopped and sighed. “I’m showing really bad table manners, aren’t I?” She looked over at Trevor. “Are you enjoying it?”

“Absolutely,” he replied, with a huge smile. “It’s excellent, but then the food here is always good.”

“Ha,” Dave noted, “I can’t even remember the last time I fed you.”

“It’s been a while,” Trevor said cheerfully, “but I sure haven’t forgotten.”

At that came noise from the entrance, and several more people arrived. Bullard stepped in, and Reeni stiffened and glared at him. He glared right back.

Trevor placed his hand over hers. “He’s not here to work against you. Nobody here is the enemy. Just remember that.”

“He’s not here for me,” she declared. “Therefore, he’s against me.”

Bullard looked at her in astonishment. “No, I’m not,” he argued in exasperation. “I’ve never been against you. You came here, as an unknown factor, which I told you before, and the fact that you blew apart my gate while I stood there watching was extremely disconcerting,” he explained. “However, I would much rather have you on my side than against me. So I do apologize for my bad behavior at the gate before.”

She stared at Bullard, her gaze narrowed.

Trevor squeezed her hand. “And, yes, that’s Bullard’s honest opinion, and it comes from his heart.” She shot Trevor a questioning look, and he nodded at her. “It’s not easy for Bullard to admit he’s wrong, you know? He really loved that gate.”

She snorted. “It needed fixing anyway.”

Bullard frowned at her and asked, “How did you know it needed fixing?”

“There was a glitch in the electronic circuit, so I did you a favor.”

He stared at her. “How did you know there was a glitch in the circuit?”

“Because I could see the energy. It was crossed.” She frowned at him. “And, no.… I don’t know how, so don’t bother asking. All I can tell you is that something was crossed.”

He frowned. “I put that gate in myself.”

“Yeah, well, maybe somebody else tampered with it,” she stated. “Did you ever consider that?”

“Before then, no, but now?… Definitely,” he replied, studying her. “You got any other tidbits of information?”

She shook her head. “No, my brain is numb from that last bit of electrical work I just did. So my brain needs to reset, and I need more food, so you’ll have to excuse me.”

He looked down at her empty plate, shook his head, and asked, “Do you burn through food at that rate all the time?”

“Only if I have to touch electricity,” she murmured. “Or shift it—for want of a better word.” She could see the question on everybody’s faces. She looked over at Damon and saw him grinning at her. She groaned. “I don’t have answers and don’t know how all this shit works,” she admitted. “I can only tell you what I do know when something hits my radar. If you want further explanations about electrical and all that, I’m sure you can find it online.”

“These guys happen to be specialists in all that,” Damon told her, now laughing openly. “The thing is, they can’t see the electricity in the same way as you do.”

She shook her head. “Why would you go into a field where you can’t see it?” she asked curiously.

Trevor chuckled. “Yet 99.999 percent of the world can’t see it either, remember? They’re going on blind faith that it won’t kill them.”

“But it will kill them if they do the wrong thing.”

“Exactly, which is why we try hard not to do the wrong thing ,” Bullard noted, staring at her. “But you can see it?”

“Sure. I can see the lines all through this house.… Some people would say it isn’t terribly healthy for a pregnant woman,” Reeni pointed out, turning to face Leia.

Leia stared at her. “I’m not pregnant.”

Reeni’s eyebrows shot up at that. Then she shrugged and went back to eating.

Damon looked over at Leia, while Leia stared at Bullard, and Damon laughed. “Or maybe you are.”

Leia shook her head. “That’s not in the plan right now.” She turned to Reeni. “Seriously?”

“I’m just telling you about the energy,” she said, with a shrug. “I see energy from you to your belly, and it zips over to Bullard. So that child, that pregnancy, is his. Beyond that I know nothing.”

Everybody else started to grin.

Reeni added, “I’m not sure why you would be upset by it, though. Obviously you guys are into family life, so why would you be less than pleased?”

“Oh, I’m absolutely thrilled.” Leia beamed, her hand covering her flat belly, “but I know, for Bullard, it’ll be fairly stressful.”

“Yeah, the last pregnancy didn’t go so well,” he muttered, glaring at his wife.

“It went fine,” she declared, still beaming at him. “Remember that we wanted more than one pregnancy anyway.”

He shook his head. “No, you did. I just want you alive and well.”

At that, the conversation fell quiet for a moment, as everybody contemplated that reality.

Damon asked Reeni, “What about other electrical systems?”

“If it’s an electrical system, I can see it,” she explained. “It’s not that I see energy as much as I see the electrical energy around it. I tried to explain that to you before, but I know it didn’t come across so well. Every time I try to explain it, it gets convoluted.”

“No, I just find it interesting that you see electrical energy, but you don’t see any other energy,” he shared, “because, in theory, there’s energy swarming through this room because we’re all energized beings. So, to have just electrical energy show up differently on your radar is…”

“Odd,” she stated in a challenging voice.

“ Unique ,” he clarified, with a grin. “Stop trying to take offense so quickly.”

She stared at him and groaned. “Yeah, it’s an ingrained habit.”

“Yet you came here all on your own will to warn us,” Leia pointed out, also grinning broadly.

*

Trevor understood what Damon was trying to say, and it was interesting that Reeni didn’t get it. “I wonder if it’s a blockage on your part,” he suggested, “as if you expect to see one thing, so that’s all you see.”

“Maybe,” she acknowledged. “This room is floating in energy, and we’re all energy, but it’s not as if I see all the lines going from one person to another.”

“Yet you just saw it going from Leia to Bullard.”

She nodded. “But I think that’s just because…” She lifted a hand and waved it around, and an immediate crackle bounced around the room. Several people gasped, and she shrugged. “I’m still charged, so I’m seeing a little more than I would normally.”

“Right,” Damon noted. “So, can we utilize that leftover charge? What do you see that is a little more enhanced right now?”

She stared at Damon, puzzled. “I’m sorry? What do you mean?”

“If you were to put down the food for a moment,” he said, with a note of humor, “and we were to walk through this place, would you see other areas of trouble? Like that supposed second bomb?”

“You mean, because it’s not just potentially electrical right now?” Without waiting for his answer, she hopped up and nodded. With at least twelve of them following behind her, Trevor very close to her side, they walked through the offices and up and around the multiple apartments. Only when they came back to the server room did she stop and stare. “I thought you guys fixed that.”

“Fixed what?” Bullard asked.

She pointed at the server. “The server.”

He stared at her. “We did.”

She shook her head. “No, you didn’t, or, if you did, whoever did this before, did it again. Have you guys had anybody here in this house? Anybody since I was here before, who could have had any access to this?”

Bullard shook his head. “No, when we’re in lockdown, nobody comes in or out.”

“I did,” she declared.

He glared at her. “Yeah, but you made your own entrance,” he noted in a dry tone.

She nodded. “I did because I needed to, but I wonder if somebody took advantage of that.” At that, Bullard stiffened beside her. She nodded. “It feels very much as if whatever happened to that server before is happening again. Somebody’s hijacking it, but this time electronically.” She looked over at his team. “You guys have somebody in your system right now, so you may want to fix that.”

Several men jumped on computers, and keyboards were pounded on almost as quickly. She turned to Trevor. “It feels different from last time.”

“In what way?” he asked curiously.

She thought about it. “It feels as if it was online last time, like somebody set up something, thought that it would work, but we thwarted it, so somebody is now trying it another way. Potentially… why does Bullard still have internet? Didn’t all of that go down?”

“Yes, but it just came back up again about twenty minutes ago.”

She pondered that. “Does it normally come up that fast?”

Everybody shared a frown.

Bullard replied, “No. We do have a backup generator, but that’s electrical.”

She pondered that. “Maybe you should show me where that is.”

Bullard led the way through to another part of the compound. As she walked into the rear of the room, she stopped and pointed at a power box up against the wall. “What is that?”

Bullard replied, “It’s part of the backup system.”

She nodded. “Did it get serviced recently?”

His face darkened. “Yes, it absolutely did.” He called someone on his phone and started assessing something on the panel.

She looked back at Damon. “Can I leave now and go back to the food?”

“I think so,” he said, with a smile. “I presume you found something wrong with that.”

“I don’t know that something is necessarily wrong with it,” she clarified. “If that’s right, then… it’s not anything I would have recognized as right.” She raised both hands. “I get it. That’s no help.”

“It’s a huge help,” Bullard corrected, “because it was just serviced, and it was not the regular person.”

She nodded. “He would have had access to the house for a little bit, and everybody probably treated him as trustworthy, since he supposedly had clearance from a company you guys use all the time.” She shrugged. “You know how all that works. However, the person who came and did this? Yeah, something is there. I just don’t know what.” Then she turned to Trevor. “If you know how this mausoleum of a place works, do you want to help me back to the kitchen, please?”

He nodded and reached out a hand. She put hers in it and squeezed his. “You need more food?” he asked her.

“No, I’m fine. It just feels off. Everything down here feels off.”

She shivered and then looked at Damon. “Does it feel off to you?”

“It does,” he agreed, looking at the backup generator. “And that’s a big unit.”

“It is, but it’s off , as in wrong .” Then she laughed. “I see what you guys mean. Maybe I could use a little bit more vocabulary.”

“No, off works in this instance,” Damon confirmed, as he looked over at Bullard, “because she’s right. That’s what I feel too.”

Bullard stared at Damon. “Just off ?”

“Yeah, just off ,” he repeated, “as in somebody’s tinkered with it. If that thing is meant to kick in, I suspect when it does or did, something else is meant to kick in too.”

“It did kick in though,” Bullard stated. “When the power went out just recently, it did kick in.”

“ Right ,” Damon replied, but he didn’t like the sound of that. He looked over at Reeni.

She nodded. “So, whatever is happening just started to happen now. So, we’ve got the big boom still to come.”

Nobody liked what she said. Trevor looked around the small room and asked Bullard, “What does this connect to? Names and places quickly.”

“Everything,” Bullard declared, with a sigh. “Absolutely everything.”

“Then you need to check everything that’s connected to it,” Trevor stated.

With that, teams of men spread out, and Trevor slowly led her back up to the kitchen. As she got into the kitchen, she sat down, her hands suddenly chilled. She frowned at him. “Something feels wrong.”

“You’re right, but they’re on it now,” he said in a reassuring tone of voice. She nodded but didn’t look at all convinced, and he could see why. A lot of things were going on. He looked over at Dave. “You need to keep a full watch on the compound.”

Dave nodded, and his face was grim. “Yeah, message received on that count. We have a lot of women in residence, and several of them are pregnant.”

“Of course, and somebody’s trying to hurt more than just one,” she shared, frowning, then she shook her head. “I don’t normally get insights, so I’m not sure what this is either.”

“Don’t worry about it,” Trevor said, “just let any information flow.”

“What about you?”

“I was hoping I could do a scan, scope outside the area, and search for any irregularities.”

“Oh, yeah, that’s a good idea,” she agreed. “That’s one of the things you can do too, isn’t it?”

He smiled. “Sometimes, though not always, I need a few minutes to get my thoughts in order.” He looked over at Dave. “You okay to take over here if I just zone out?”

Fascinated, Dave nodded slowly. “Yeah, you do what you need to do. The rest of us don’t get it, but neither do we have those abilities. So fly at it and keep us safe.”

And, with that, Trevor shifted free of his body and floated up. He went higher, out of the building. He searched the compound, looking to see what was bothering him. Yet it wasn’t just him; it was Reeni and Damon too. Something was off . Trevor wasn’t sure what and wasn’t sure how, but definitely something was going on here that he didn’t recognize.

When he heard Terk in the back of his mind, calling for him, Trevor replied, I’m here , and opened up a mental door to Terk.

There’s definite sabotage at Bullard’s compound , Terk shared urgently. We’ve sorted and assessed some of it and came down to a certain location. I’m doing an overseeing arc right now, taking a closer look at what I can find. Stay a little closer to Bullard’s home and ensure that nothing is happening on a one-to-one basis , Terk suggested, because definitely something is wrong. I don’t know what it is, but I can feel it from here. I just phoned and warned Bullard .

Trevor agreed. Yeah, everybody here is on full alert. Something’s happening, something’s coming, but we don’t know what. Reeni has been getting warnings too, but we don’t know where the trouble is coming from, which makes all of us feel pretty damn useless .

We never get full answers , Terk noted, his tone calm and reassuring. All any of us can do is pull up the information as it presents itself and ensure that we’re all ready to react fast enough to deal with whatever is going on. Yet, just as soon as you find out one thing, you have to plan for it to be something completely different. It’s never quite so simple in Bullard’s world .

Or ours , Trevor noted.

Yeah, so does that mean you’ll come work for me?

Maybe. I answered the call when you put it out, though I still can’t quite believe you used a beacon .

Yeah, I’ve rescinded it now. He chuckled. But I did get a few other people contacting me . So maybe it’s all good .

Maybe , he murmured. If you got any seers over there, we could use them right now. Something’s not only wrong here in wonderland, it’s straight-up ugly .

And, with that, he disconnected from Terk and sent his energy far and wide, looking for a source of the trouble. He found himself very quickly atop that same apartment building that had been evacuated. He realized that they would have to head back there, even if it had been evacuated once and cleared that time. Something was still here that needed to be assessed, that needed to be found, and quickly at that.

He zipped back into his body, bolted to his feet, and looked at Dave. “I need a team, and I need it now.”

Bullard walked into the kitchen and came straight to his side. “Where are we going?”

“To that same apartment building where they just found the bombmaking supplies,” he said.

“You mean, the one that the police have us locked out of because of the bombs? Why would you want to go back there?”

Damon raced in. “What’s going on?”

“We have to get to that apartment building again,” Trevor shared. “I’m not sure if we still have the same person doing this there, but definitely some information about him is in that apartment, so we need to get in there.”

He strode quickly out to the parking lot, and Reeni followed him. He looked at her and shook his head. “You need to stay here.” Her jaw jutted out at him. “I get it. You don’t want to be left behind, and I appreciate that, but I need you to keep an eye on everybody here. You’ll be the one in the line of fire if there’s an imminent attack. We’ll get over there as fast as we can and hurry back. I’m leaving, taking a team with me. You’ve got Bullard and the rest of his men here.”

“You also know that you’ll be up against something there too,” she declared. He frowned at her, and she shrugged. “Yeah, I don’t know anything,” she muttered. “Just things. Always just things.”

“That’s fine. Keep the communication open, and I’ll check back in a few minutes.”

She stared at him with a woebegone expression, and he smiled, leaned over, and gave her a goodbye kiss. Then just like that, Trevor and his team were gone.