Page 79 of His Angel

“It’s not a coincidence that on the day Ivy’s best friend isremovedfrom the competition, you get death flowers wrapped in Ivy. You also found that code breaking book ahead of the escape rooms, and the handkerchief before Oliver’s tirade that night.”

“I think someone on the outside is trying to send me warnings.”

No fucking shit.

“The same person that was watching us at the pool by any chance? Yeah, don’t think I’ve forgotten about your sketchy answers.”

“My father is a very powerful man—”

“Common theme here,” I say, cutting him off.

“In the underworld,” he finishes between gritted teeth. “I have two brothers, not by blood, that work for him, and he’s holding their lives over my head. Now, I’m not telling you this to get you on my side or for any sympathy, I can handle all that on my own, but I also know that parents don’t get updates or details on the initiates until the end. So, he’s not sending them, or the clues, but I think they’ve managed to get them anyway.”

“And how would they do that?” I scoff.

This is ridiculous.

Friends sending help from outside, or trying, even though they work for his father who gets no information as to how it’s going. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.

“Our connection runs deep, our contacts further. It’s entirely possible it’s them. If not, I have no idea.”

“Does it even matter who’s sending them as long as we can figure it out in time? So far we’re doing all right, we just have to make it through the next four cuts.”

“And the third bloodline is Wyatt,” Leo adds.

Shit.

“At some point, they’re going to cut one of us.”

My stomach sinks.

Ivy is attached to us all.

Jacob is too.

I could even learn to live with them, but who could be taken from our group without decimating the rest? No-one.

“Jacob and I have our bands, we want to do the swap when we get back and have you and Wyatt witness. I want him tied with me, safe, but I don’t know what that does for you and Wyatt,” he admits.

“That decision still lays with Ivy, as it should. This thing has taken more than enough from her, I’m not going to influence her choice.”

“It would break Jacob to lose you,” he says quietly.

“And it will break Ivy further without the supportive guiding hand from Wyatt. We all knew what we had in that room wouldn’t last. It was all just a dream wrapped up in a nightmare.

“There’s got to be another way,” he says resolutely.

Sure.

But if there is, I can’t see it.

“I’m going to get the coffee,” I reply.

With no answer to this conundrum and no good way to work it out, the best thing to do is to put it to one side and ignore it. To walk away and see if a resolution presents itself at a later date. Sometimes they do.

We manage to get the drinks and get back without any more talk of The Sect or what’s going to come in the next few days and weeks.

“Just be careful what you’re saying inside the house,” he reminds me as we pull back down the driveway. “They’ve already admitted to hearing and seeing everything.”

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