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After this, Vanessa sat down next to Caroline and asked her several more questions, trying to find out what had happened.

"You were out of town, weren't you? Why? How did you get there?"

"Actually, when you hit Matthew, he was carrying me; I guess he wanted to kidnap me. That caused me to almost fall unconscious, and when I reacted, Matthew was trying to escape with the other woman in his arms; she seemed to be an Heir of the vampire race. So I followed them from afar to see what they would do; that's how I ended up out of town."

"Did you manage to see anything about them? Where they were headed?"

"Yes, miss. I may not have an exact location, but I got an idea about where they would go. That was why I came back as soon as possible to give you the news."

Vanessa's beautiful blue eyes sparkled a little, and she immediately pulled out a massive map of the entire Empire.