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Mr. Blackbourne’s eyes remained on me as he spoke. “I came over because I tried to reach certain members of my team by phone. Apparently, they’re all... distracted.” The millimeter smile disappeared as he turned toward the guys. “And I can see why.”
“Sorry,” Kota said. He flicked the sweat from his brow. “I didn’t realize...”
The others murmured similar apologizes.
“We don’t have time for that,” Mr. Blackbourne said, turning toward his car. “Kota, Luke, Nathan, in the car with me. North, Silas, Gabriel, follow. We’ve got work to do.”
“What about Sang?” Gabriel asked, dropping his water gun to the ground. Playtime was over.
“She doesn’t work for me. Let’s go,” Mr. Blackbourne moved around the car again, heading toward the driver’s seat. Was this Mr. Blackbourne’s car that looked identical to Victor’s? Or was he driving Victor’s car? Where was Victor? And why were they all leaving now?
I bit back the questions. I knew better. Academy business was secret. I wasn’t a part of it.
Kota, Luke and Nathan found their shoes and shirts quickly and raced toward the car. Mr. Blackbourne pulled the car out of the drive as soon as the doors closed and was down the road again.
I collected the dropped water guns and headed toward the garage. Silas and Gabriel were collecting their phones they had left on the ground. North was shuffling a shirt the right way to drop it over his head. “Derrick, do me a favor?”
Derrick had collected the basketball and was taking random shots alone at the goal. “What?”
“Stay with Sang? Until one of us can get back?”
“I’m fine,” I said. I thought I was. My mother wasn’t there with any more crazy punishments for me. My father wasn’t there. There was no one left to do any harm.
“Humor me, Sang Baby.” North eyeballed Derrick. “Please?”
“I guess so. Whatever,” Derrick said, shrugging and looking at me.
North frowned but nodded. He waved to me as he stalked off, following Gabriel and Silas to North’s black Jeep that he had parked at Kota’s house. They rushed over to it, getting in. The Jeep started up and disappeared down the road, too.
