Chapter 25 Summary

Nicolae begins the meeting by addressing everyone individually. Also present is Hattie, who sits by his side as his personal assistant. Buck is not as taken in by Carpathia as everyone around him still appears to be. When it comes time for Carpathia to address Buck, he is strong and not sucked in by the charm. Then Carpathia makes his way to Stonagal and implies that Stonagal will now be working for him rather than the other way around. He is immediately angry about the set-up and is humiliated. Carpathia takes a gun from the armed guard in the room and puts Todd-Cothran and Stonagal in front of one another; then shoots them at point-blank range.

He then uses his mind control to tell everyone present in the room what has happened. The memory he supplies them with is that Todd-Cothran shot himself...