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With the vehicle accommodations decided they settled into the car. Ruthven drove them into the ghetto of abandoned apartments and parked the car in the darkest of the quiet alleys. The Saints met them at the back of the building, and together they slipped into the empty tenement.
“Let’s go to the second floor in case we need to make an escape out of here from either way,” Adam suggested.
They climbed to the middle floor of the building and stopped in the middle of the hall. The doors were all shut. Jenny tried one of the knobs and frowned. “Who locks doors in an abandoned apartment?”
“Someone with a cover-your-ass survival instinct,” Maeve quipped.
Valerian leaned his shoulder into Jenny’s door. The old entrance gave way beneath his strong shoulder and collapsed inward into th
