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“Uh yeah. You think I walked here?”
“Good—you’re taking me to the rogue commune,” I tell him, looking for his car. I spot the sleek, shiny sports car and start marching over to it.
“Is that where your friend lives?” Marcus asks, chasing me to keep up.
“Yes. She isn’t answering her phone, and her son never showed up for school,” I tell him as he unlocks his car.
I climb into the passenger seat before sending Zoe a message that I would collect Valarian and that I was going to check on Emily.
Marcus drives me insane the entire drive there; the man could talk the leg off an iron pot. And what is up with his music selection? It sounds like a kids’ musical in here!
“What the heck are you listening to?” I ask.
“ Trolls’ soundtrack, it’s catchy. Do you like it?”
“No!” I tell him.
“Casey downloaded it on my Spotify.”
“What is up with you sniffing her, by the way. And I would stay the hell away from Zoe. She wants your damn head on a silver platter,” I warn him.
“Yeah, Valen told me on the way to the school at lunchtime; said she bitched him out really good. I only wanted to know what laundry detergent she uses. A bit of an overreaction if you ask me,” Marcus sighs.
“You wouldn’t think that if you had her upbringing—she spent the majority of her childhood in youth homes; she met some damn creeps in her time,” I tell him.
“Is that how she had Casey?” he asks, and I shake my head.
“No. And what were you and Valen doing at the school at lunchtime?”
“Getting Valarian to take him to the birth registry.”
“Excuse me?”
“Valen got him DNA tested and changed his last name.”
“Hewhat?” I growl.
“You didn’t know?”
“No, I fucking didn’t.”
Marcus looks away awkwardly, drumming his fingers on the steering wheel.
“I thought you knew Valen had a blood sample taken the night he found out before you got there.”
“Why would he need to have his DNA tested? We can tell our own kin.”
“Yeah, but the birth registry would need it. They can’t tell if Valarian is his or not.” Marcus shrugs. “I thought he told you he was taking Valarian from school?”
“Yes, picking him upafter,not kidnapping him and changing his name! I am going to fuckingkillhim,” I growl as we pull into the commune.
As we arrive, the presence of blue and red lights makes us slow down. Officer Richards waves for us to stop as we pull in. We’re in a pretty secluded area at the back of the commune, so there isn’t any reason for them to be out here. Only Emily and her son live out here because her neighbors kept complaining about the smell of her vegetable garden, so she moved to the other side of the commune away from everyone.
Marcus rolls down his window, and officer Richards comes over and peers in the window.
“Beta, Everly,” Officer Richards says.
“What’s going on?” I ask him.
