He led her to the side of the stone fireplace, reached up to the top, and inserted his finger in a crack. A section of the rock slid open to reveal a keypad.

“No way,” Grace breathed, wishing she’d grabbed her camera.

“Yes. The door locks from either side with a keypad, and the code is 002241. Memorize it.” He punched in the code, and the entire rock wall swung open like an ordinary door.

Adare flipped a switch, and lights ignited on the stone block walls, illuminating the stairs that curved down toward more darkness.

“This is so cool,” she whispered, following him down the rough stone steps. “When did you build this place?”

“Two years ago,” Adare said, reaching the bottom level and engaging the last switch.

Grace faltered, her head swiveling to take it all in. The room was massive, built of stone and concrete, extending far beyond the structure of the cabin above. One entire wall held different screens. Only one was lit up, showing an aerial view of a compound with heat signatures.

Adare caught her eye. “It’s a Kurjan holding that hopefully houses some Cyst soldiers in northern Arizona.”

“Satellite?” she murmured. The compound looked massive and well-guarded. Even from far above, the shapes of the guns were big enough to make out.

He nodded. “Three years ago, the Seven purchased a discarded satellite from the Chinese and then had the Realm experts update it. We try to keep it focused on this one place, for now.”

She looked at the multiple computer consoles on wide tables down the middle of the room, and then to the opposing wall, where old-fashioned maps had been taped with different pins stuck in them. “Known Kurjans?”

“Known Cysts,” he said, releasing her hand. “Our mission is to take out as many Cyst as possible, after extracting whatever information we can get from them. Ronan and Ivar are working on locating all Kurjans, while Logan and Quade are in charge of finding as many enhanced human females as we can before the Kurjans locate and kidnap them. The good news is that enhanced females are hard to find, as most don’t know they’re any different from other humans.”

She studied the map of the world, noting that most locations of enhanced females were areas with high sun exposure. That made sense. “What about Garrett?” He was the only member of the elite Seven that Adare hadn’t mentioned.

Adare didn’t turn from watching the satellite feed. “Garrett’s searching for the last Key. We have you and Mercy; now we have to find one more.”

Mercy was a Fae mated to Logan, and no doubt she was helping with the search.