He was in disbelief. It had all happened in the blink of an eye. In one fell swoop all his research, all his plans, experiments were taken from him and it was all that blasted witch's fault. She'd tricked him into thinking she was on their side, that she was unable to escape let alone have the ability to do what she had. Why had Ruby been pretending all this time? Surely not to save everyone? But it looked like that is what she had wanted, freeing those bloody vampires and letting them loose on everyone. He shuddered at the memory.
She was being weird when it came to that Alpha boy Marcus as well. Conrad wasn't stupid, he'd seen the way they stared at each other but he'd been so focused on getting Ruby to do the next phase of the plan that he hadn't put the pieces together until now. The
