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His eyes narrow but he seemingly accepts it, spinning away again as he quietly talks with his henchmen.
Raven exhales heavily, her eyelids closing briefly, and I instantly wish Zane or Creed were here. They’d know exactly what to do to make her feel better.
“This is so fucked up,” she breathes as we move through the gathered students to where Leila sits.
“I know, but we need to wait until we’re safe to even think about it,” I admit, and the desperation on her face is evident.
“It’s gone, Brax. The gate is gone,” she mouths, her knuckles turning white as she holds on to me tightly.
Fuck.
“I know, Shadow. I know.”
She stops suddenly, wiping her free hand down her face before tilting her head back to look up at the sky, all while I stand helplessly beside her with no clue how to fix it.
My parents, my brothers; everything is fucked. Fucked so hard. I’m ready to sink into my own mess of thoughts, but I can’t focus on that when I can see how shattered she is, too.
“It’s just the two of us for now, Shadow, but we’ll figure this out. Fuck knows how but we won’t accept anything less than resolving all of this.”
She peers at me, the smallest and softest smile ghosting her lips for the briefest moment. “We’ll get through this.”
“We will,” I agree, and I notice her body relax a little, but the tension still radiates between us.
“Well, you might,” she reiterates, moving again, and I’m a sucker to stay at her side.
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
She shakes her head, a grin appearing on her lips once again as her tongue peeks out, touching her bottom lip for the briefest moment before disappearing again.
“Well, you swore not to get me off until Sebastian was dead. Because he’s clearly under their magical control, it doesn’t look like it will be happening any time soon. At least the others weren’t so hell-bent on being an asshole.”
I gape at her, lips parted more than I wish, as she comes to a stop in front of Leila, effectively dismissing any further conversation.
“Hey, I was starting to wonder where you guys were,” Leila says, standing before us while Grave stays where he is. She frowns almost instantly, glancing around us. “Where are the others?”
Raven peers at her friend but not a single word comes, and I have to quickly catch up instead of remaining focused on the final statement she gave me before we were interrupted.
“Gather around,” Erikel snaps, pulling everyone’s attention to him.
Raven shakes her head at Leila, turning to face our self-elected leader with the rest of the student body out here.
He stands on a boulder, the golden warrior to his left, Fitch to his right, with the students from Shadowgrim Insititute crowding closer to him while the rest of us keep as much distance as possible.
Once he’s certain he has everyone’s attention, his eyes cut to Raven. “I want the location of Creed Wylder, Zane Denver, and Eldon Rhodes.”
Fuck. We should have known he wasn’t going to let it drop as easily as that.
The golden warrior’s attention perks up and he glances from Erikel to Raven and back. Fuck him, though. We wouldn’t be here if he hadn’t delved deep into his son’s mind against his will. We wouldn’t be parted from my brothers with the weight of the realm firmly on our shoulders.
“I don’t know where they are,” Raven states, making Erikel bare his teeth in anger. I don’t think we’re going to get away with saying nothing at this rate.
“Don’t lie to me. You know where they are, and my Potens Ruby,” he snaps, sweeping his hand in our direction, and the golden warrior instantly starts to move toward us.
Nobody says a word as we all watch his movements. His onyx eyes, which are usually blacker than black and void of anything at all, swirl with unspoken questions that he sure as hell isn’t getting the answers to.
“I can read your pretty little mind,” he warns as he comes to a stop in front of us, hand lifted and palm turned up in warning.
Over my dead fucking body.
