Max chuckled. “I’ll file that away for future reference.”

The fact he believed Nathan had a future reassured me a little. I sat on the couch while Max punched up a number on his phone. “Who are you calling?”

“Movement,” Max said casually as if he wasn’t standing in the home of two fugitive vampires.

I lunged for the phone.

He yelped in surprise and jumped back. “Hey, what are you doing?”

“You can’t call the Movement,” I whispered fiercely as though they could hear me. “They’ll kill us.”

“They’ll want to know something happened to Nathan. Besides, who’s going to help us? The oh-so-reliable spell books downstairs?” He turned away to speak into the phone. “Hola, baby. It’s Harrison. Get me Anne.”

My heart pounded in my chest as I stood helplessly by while Nathan’s only friend turned Judas.

“Anne, cómo está? It’s Harrison.” He paused, then burst out with a hearty laugh.

How could he do this? I seethed, tuning out his conversation. Nathan had quit the Voluntary Vampire Extinction Movement when he’d sired me. We’d been flying under the radar ever since, and now Max was going to bring us to their attention?

“Gotcha.” His smile widened. “We’ll be on the plane at sunset.”

“Plane?” I barely held the word in until he’d hung up the phone. “Where are you going?”

“We are going to Movement headquarters. In Madrid,” he added casually as if location would be my prime concern.

“Excuse me? We? You expect me to march into a building full of assassins who’ve been commanded to kill me on sight?” I shook my head emphatically. “No way.”

Max laughed. “You give yourself a lot of credit, you know that? There are thousands of renegade vampires roaming the earth. You’re a two-month-old who killed her sire. Even if you mentioned your name to every person in the place, I bet you wouldn’t come across one vampire who recognized it.”

“But you told them about Nathan.” I gestured to the phone in his hand. “They’ll know to look out for him, then.”

Max tossed the cell onto the coffee table and sat beside me. “He was a good assassin. They’re upset that he’s left the fold, but they’re not going to put a bounty on him unless he really steps over the line. There are way too many vampires out there doing worse damage to humankind.”

I knew it was true. Nathan had told me as much. If they’d wanted us dead, we would have been staked within the week after I’d killed Cyrus. “Over the line?” My heart jumped into my throat. “Like?”