This plan wasn’t looking quite so brilliant now.

“Edward, I hate this. Can’t we just kill him?” Alice whined as we streaked through the heavily forested Amazon.

“Shh!” I hissed at her and she glared, but I didn’t care. I was catching Demetri’s thoughts again and they were…calling me?

“Stop!” I held up a hand and we all three of us simultaneously came to a halt in the middle of a dimly lit clearing.

There it was again. Edward, I think Chris has been reassured I’m actually after you for long enough. Let’s call it quits, deal?

I growled in response and was then mentally questioned by Jasper.

What? Why are you angry? Is he here? I don’t smell him…

“Oh!” Alice exclaimed from my right, and Jasper stepped around me to hug her close.

Finally he released her, bent down to her eye level and asked, “What did you see?” She’d had a vision? Damn, Jasper had made me miss it.

I caught the gist of it now, however, as she retold it to Jasper. “Demetri is standing…with us here. He’s saying…that he’s a double agent. That thing about Heidi doing him a favor was apparently a fake reason as to why he’s working with Chris; I never saw the real decision. Edward is…nodding. In acceptance or contempt though?”

“We’ll have to find out,” I sighed, not wanting this to prove false, but at the same time hoping it was true. I was skeptic, but this was the first sign of hope I’d had in the last five years. “When will he be here?”

“Four point eight seconds,” Alice stated firmly, and by the time Jasper had ruffled his hair Demetri became visible, about fifty yards away still. He threw back his hood and smiled every step it took him to reach us.

“I heard your chagrin, Alice, and I think this has gone on long enough, what do you say?”

“Why didn’t you tell us earlier?” I demanded, and he shook his head solemnly.

“Five years barely does you three justice, don’t you think? If I was actually intent on capturing you, I’m sure this would have gone on for much longer. Chris had to be assured I was working for him.”

“Why isn’t there anyone else with you?” Jasper questioned, curious.