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“Ship!” he bellowed. “There’s a ship!”
My heart was in my throat.
I had no idea what the ship was there for. Was it there to attack me again? To finish off the job it’d failed to do last time? Or was it there for another reason?
With it coming so close to the palace and the guards yelling at the top of their voices, I didn’t think it was something to look forward to.
My guardsmen entered the room and surrounded me.
“We have to get you to safer ground, your majesty,” Garrick said.
“The east room!” the voices outside bellowed. “It’s outside the east room!”
The east room?
But we were in the library.
Nobody was in the east room.
Except…
The blood fell from my face.
The other Titans wore the same haunted expression.
We moved as one, bolting toward the empty archway that led to the hallway.
“Disengage all defenses!” I yelled at Garrick.
He said, “But sir—”
“Just do it!”
The other Titans followed in my wake. The guardsmen tore after us to protect me and keep me from harm.
But it wasn’t me they had to worry about.
I kicked the east room door open and bolted inside. The sofas lined the back wall and glasses of wine turned in the air, their spilled cargo hovering in midair.
I got there just in time to see Hazel encased in the bright beam of light. It pulled on her dress.
I ran forward and reached for her.
“No!” I yelled.
Too late.
The tractor beam yanked Hazel out of the window backward.
I launched myself after her. I dived and stretched.
My fingertips grazed the fabric of her dress as she floated out of reach and disappeared inside the hull of the awaiting ship.
I hadn’t seen the other girls get taken but they must have been pulled away along with Hazel.
The ship’s thrusters engaged and turned around.
It was going to take her.
