"Go with Seraphina to the chopper. I'll clean up this mess."
Tristan nodded and broke into a jog to catch up with her.
Gideon watched them go, his fists clenching tightly before he snapped his focus back to the room.
"Scrub this place down."
He began barking orders at his men. "Call animal control. Get all these dogs to a shelter."
The team scattered to secure the site.
The vicious mastiffs that had been snarling in the ransom video were now cowering in the backs of their rusted cages, tails tucked between their legs in dead silence.
As Seraphina reached the threshold, she glanced down at one of the bodies by her feet.
A masked thug was lying dead on the dirt, his balaclava ripped off to reveal his face.
She froze.
She recognized that man.
She had seen him in the administrative office when she visited Arthur Sinclair at The Applied Science Institute.
That meant someone from the Institute had orchestrated this kidnapping.
A heavy dread sank into her chest.
Who at the Institute would have a vendetta against her?
The answer materialized almost instantly.
Dr. Ross. Cynthia's uncle.
Seraphina clenched her fists so hard her knuckles turned white.
Cynthia absolutely had a hand in nearly killing her daughter.
But there was no time to deal with that now.
Lily was bleeding out on a stretcher, hovering inches from death.
Tearing her eyes away from the corpse, she swung her crutches wildly to keep up with the medics.
Outside the cabin, Gideon's extraction crew was already waiting.
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The readers' comments on the novel: Unloved Unwanted Unstoppable (Seraphina and Dominic)
Dominic is an idiot, stupid, foolish and brainless, Cynthia is the worst kind out there always getting saved by stupid Dominic...
Cynthia needs to be dealt with, she has caused too much trouble already!...
Dominic is such a fool, he doesn't seem to be able to think for himself. He believes what other people say without question....