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Was he beginning to consider me as an obligation he needed to look after?
I couldn’t answer any of those questions. And I couldn’t be there either. Everything was too confusing in those moments as if the threat message didn’t panic me enough.
Brax’s determination to keep us under supervision at all times was making me fear I was to end up a prisoner in a golden cage when I just got my freedom… my partial freedom, since Ferris still couldn’t let go. But I had a feeling that he wasn’t going to use his prerogatives either.
Convincing Nat and Seb that they would both need guards was far more difficult than I imagined, especially since I had no chance on this earth to avoid an avalanche of mind-wrecking questions. They could range fromare we secret royalsall the way toan alien invasion. Like a few bodyguards would save us from that.
My nerves were at their max when I returned to the living room. If that wasn’t enough, the guys turning silent like I interrupted some secret gathering was transforming me into a barrel of powder waiting to blow.
‘I’m going to the Academy in the morning, and I don’t want to hear a word about it,’ I warned them, hoping that it would be the match that would start up the flame.
Yet not even one of them dared to contradict me.
They were a lot calmer than when I left them— Brax included.
‘I have an interview in an hour. I need to get ready.’ Ferris, my king of darkness, was finally stepping into the spotlight and I forgot all about it.
MaybeIwas the villain in this story after all.
‘And I have a meeting to bribe another Annelid leader. I suggest we should take a vote soon if we should keep paying them or I could just shoot a few of them. It would save us a lot of money and trouble.’ Brax moved his head from one shoulder to another until he heard that crack that removed the final signs of his tension. ‘See you tomorrow.’ I knew exactly who he was talking about.
And I dreaded thattomorrow.
The rest of the day wasn’t about me. My problems could wait. I needed to step up and help Ferris get through the interview. The task was close to impossible for a man with his traumas, and he needed me to be there, helping him not to get thrown straight into his past.
I was the one who got him into this mess, and I would be the one who would aid him set forth into a new world.
Chapter 12
Cole helped me cut the reporter’s enthusiastic questions short since Ferris’s interview could lead to certain disaster. No past, no dramas or hints to his hospitalization. Just presenting as the perfect candidate to occupy the empty seat.
A cheque that slipped into the right pocket did the trick. It was the way the world worked. We weren’t going to play angels when the devils were lurking in every corner.
A change was needed, and we were the voice of that change.
I spent the night in Nat’s room.
Fell asleepwhile talking to her, more likely escaping to clear my thoughts.
Anyone in my position would consider herself lucky to have both Cole and Ferris in their lives, but my heart couldn’t feel whole.
An invisible weight was burdening my soul, and that scared me even more than the letters of the text ever could. I just needed to clear my thoughts, and that prolonged itself throughout the day in college.
Classes and seminars were a must, but breaks weren’t. I managed to sneak my way around the Academy, mostly hiding in the bathroom so that no one came to approach me.
Cole had to leave early anyway to attend a press statement given by his father. I was out of the woods, at least until I needed to return home. Well, not completely out of the woods, I felt suffocated by a bodyguard who was following me around like I was a prisoner. I’ve had guards before, but they always came around in a second car, keeping a fair distance. Most of the time, I didn’t even know they were there, but my current 6.5-foot gorilla was pretty hard to miss.
Luckily, he didn’t raise too many questions among the other students. I was living in the land of the rich and famous, so a personal guard was as common as a smartphone.
The feeling that I needed to do something... anything to ease the wait was killing me, and having no sign from Brax was slaying me of all powers.
His answer would besilence,and I was slowly preparing to accept it.
Still, the pathetic old me was hoping to see one of his cars parked in front of Ferris’s mansion— it wasn’t.
I even dreamed of him waiting for me in my room. Of course, that one was empty too.
To prolong my torment, none of the guys were home either. They were too busy saving the world. I turned them into superheroes, and I was the one paying the price.
