"You volunteered," Yully said.
"I volunteered to help you catch a vamp, not become the vamp you experimented on!"
"If the Others came here and snatched everyone, why did they leave you two?" Darian asked.
"Because we can Travel," Charles said. "The others can't escape."
"Yully can't …" Darian gazed at her, alarm swirling within him.
"I can," she said. "If I can use the magic of another."
"Steal magic? Like you stole my fucking-" Charles sputtered.
"Charles, this is not the time," Darian snapped. "Yully, go get Jule."
Her features grew more worried at the mention of her mate. He held out his hand, and she shook her head.
"He's gone, too," she whispered. "All of them are. Sofi said Jule, Dusty, and Damian would all be taken. She said to tell you they'd be safe. I didn't know she would be gone, too."
Darian let her words sink in. Urgency rose within him, along with anger.
"Get dressed. We got shit to do," he said to Charles. The vamp grudgingly disappeared into his room. "Do you still have Hunter powers?" he called after his back.
"Everything. I'll starve to death by evening if you don't change me back."
"I don't give a shit right now. I can't change you back anyway," Darian muttered, thoughts on his missing family. Only Watchers and Others could grab everyone in the house without raising one alarm. It made sense they'd take those who couldn't escape.
The others can't escape. Charles' words struck Darian in a new light. The cuff around Jenn's arm kept her from escaping as well. He strode into the vamp's room and clamped a hand around his arm. Struggling into his shirt, Charles tried to yank away, but Darian Traveled to his cabin before releasing him.
"Jenn!" he shouted, rushing up the stairs. "Jenn!" He shoved the door open.
The bed was empty. Darian froze, listening for a moment for any sign she was somewhere else in the house.
Jenn was gone.
A new kind of fury rose within him.
"What did you expect?" Charles called. "That you could run around killing and threatening them without any kind of retribution?"
"They wouldn't do this unless …"
… they thought the same as Jonny, that Darian was getting ready to destroy their world. If that was what they thought, they'd hold his family hostage in the immortal world. Or maybe Charles was right and they just wanted revenge for picking them off.