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He assured me that he would send all my purchases home. I’m shopping for the new house and I’m finding all sorts of things to commemorate our wedding cruise. Aidan looks at me funny when I ask him to send vases and rugs home. I find some local artists and buy original artwork for the walls. He doesn’t ask me why I am buying it; he just says my room is going to be full when I get back. 
          After Gibraltar, it is Monte Carlo for some gambling and time in the sun. We spend the day at one of the hotel’s private beaches, basking in the sun or under umbrellas like Helena and the babies. That night we go to the ballet. Barcelona is next and the market there is amazing. We have a day at sea after the whirlwind tour of the last few ports. Next we head to Greece and take a couple of days to tour the islands with their wildness and beauty. After Greece we are in Istanbul, Turkey, and back to Athens before we are at sea again headed to Italy and the end of our trip. I have shopped with Helena and Hannah til I almost tired of it. Amazing art work, Persian rugs of the softest wool and of course I slip in some clothes too.
          “Hannah, you’re spending hours on your laptop. You need to rest, girlfriend. Your babies hardly remember you,” I tell her as I find her nose buried in the computer up on deck.
    “Ha ha, funny Lily,” she quips, still not looking away from the computer screen.
    “I’m serious, Han. You’ve got to take a break.”
    “Manda doesn’t get a break,” she says looking me square in the eye. I drop my head. “Hey, I didn’t mean you aren’t doing enough. You’ve been right next to me most of the time I’ve been looking.” She blows out a big breath and cracks her knuckles, putting the computer to the side.
    “I feel like I should be doing more.”
    “You’ve still been talking with Aidan everyday?”
    “Yeah, we have a few minutes to ourselves every day.”
    “I think that is the only thing keeping him going, Lil,” she says to me. Hannah frowns
    and pulls her lip in between her teeth.
     “He’s been taking the guys with him to search. He alternates them every day. He says that he’s trying to keep a fresh approach to his tracking, that the guys each may offer a different perspective. He still prefers Julian because of his hunting and tracking experience in the wars.”
    “I just can’t not look for her online. You know? I can’t explain it but I feel like if I’m not searching then something bad is going to happen to her.”
    “Oh Han, that’s survivor’s guilt. I’m ordering you to take a break to go and play with your babies. You’ll feel better afterward. Go, scooch. I’ll search for a while.”
    “Thanks, Lily. I need to see Finn and Fiona to remind me about all the good in the world. It gives me hope.” She leaves at vampire speed to the other side of the deck where Helena and Andrew are holding the babies under Hades’ watchful eye.
    I search for the next three hours waiting for Bast and Aidan to return. Still no word, sign or indication that she still exists. Everyone is feeling the pressure to find her soon.
          Despite our search we are able to enjoy parts of the trip. Hannah, Liam, Andrew and I couldn’t get up until the afternoon, so we could dictate our own schedules. It made for lazy days and late nights.
          When we dock in Venice the cruise is over and we prepare for our visit to see the King of Italy. 
    “What is the King like?” Andrew asks.
    “Like Zoe but much more ruthless, and less progressive,” Sebastian says.
    “He is much more ruthless and tied to the old ways than Zoe was. He rules with an iron fist, executing anyone, vampires or humans, that disagrees with him or stands in his way,” Sebastian tells us.
    I use my hand sanitizer ten times that afternoon while we get ready. I am obsessive-compulsive besides being a werevamp, but I’m working on it. My OCD only comes out when I am very nervous or stressed.