CHAPTER TEN–PHIL
While driving in the Audi, Mimi filled me in on the workings of the mansion and the lab, and how we’d get in and out without being caught. I suspected she didn’t really care about getting out and had a plan for someone to accidentally turn her, which didn’t matter to me.
My thoughts were on the mess I’d created. Somehow, I’d fallen for two girls. Either way, though, I couldn’t let Sam rot in hell. The devil and I had a deal, one I might regret later, but I couldn’t worry about that now.
We pulled up to the mansion and parked next to a dark sedan. I scanned the house. A guy in a dark trench coat disappeared down the walkway with something large and bulky on his back.
“Is Cain expecting company?” I asked.
“I don’t know.” Mimi craned her neck, trying to see. “But let’s go while he’s doing whatever at the front door.”
We stepped out of the vehicle, both of us wearing the laser pen suits, and snuck around the side of the house.
“This way—”
“Police. Open up!” The guy yelled from the front porch.
Mimi grabbed my hand and pulled me into the bushes headfirst.
“Geez. Meems.” I spit out foliage and righted myself. “Watch it.”
“It’s the cops,” Mimi mouthed.
I peeked around the bush that just accosted me and spied on the front door. “No, it’s not. It’s just that detective,” I said forgetting Mimi knew nothing about the break-in Cain staged.
“Who?”
“Never mind.”
She squinted and strained to see him. “He’s holding this weird contraption.”
The detective banged on the door again. “Open up. I have a warrant!”
I huffed. Like vampires cared about warrants.
“He’s making too much noise,” Mimi said.
My eyes narrowed. Why weren’t they snatching him up on his free offer of take-out? “Maybe he needs to say he’s delivering pizza.”
“More like being the pizza.”
“Nicky!” the guy yelled. “Open the damn door!”
My lips twitched into a smirk. Nicky? He knew Nicholas? What kind of nickname was that?
I looked again, and he was gone.
Mimi gasped. “Where’d he go?”
“I don’t care. If you wanted a distraction, you’ve got one,” I said with a smile. “Show me that secret entrance.”
We ran down the length of the yard to the backyard. Mimi walked over to a panel on the wall and punched in a few numbers. A row of bushes moved aside. In their place was a stairwell leading downward to a door under the foundation.
“This way,” she whispered as she disappeared down the dark hole.
“Are you sure no one is monitoring this exit?”
“Only Dr. V. knew about it, and he didn’t know I knew.”
I shrugged and followed, glad I had the suit on. The bushes slid over, shrouding us in the dark. After a swipe of her card on the control panel next to the door, it clicked open with a soft shush.
“Wah-la.” She held her hand for me to go first.
I smirked, thankful at least this secret entry wasn’t underwater.
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