Moving out to the kitchen, Jake is about to say something when we hear the delivery truck beeping. He curses and comes over to me. “You won’t speak to Sondra or Lloyd while I am gone, and you will not go near them,” he says, using his vampire charms on me before rushing to greet the truck. “What are we going to do, Elena? I can’t take much more of this,” Lexa whines at me as I reach for the spatula, only to notice he’s forgotten to take the basement keys, yet the key to her cage is around his neck. Snatching them up, I glance toward the rear doors. “Elena, don’t.” “I need to know if she is alive,” I tell my wolf. I grab some cooked meat patties and water bottles before checking to make sure Jake is still out the back. Snatching up a paper bag, I drop as much food in as possible a