Page 65 of Shattered Darkness
“And that doesn’t seem suspicious to you at all? That the only students to be accused or questioned are the Bond mates of the only Centres present at this school?” I question. There’s no doubting the anger in my voice.
My Darkness spikes, thinning out the ring of magic that is surrounding it even more, and I clamp down it hard, not allowing even a whiff of it to escape.
“We did not say that they were the only students that were accused,” he replies to me, although doubt has started to appear in all of their eyes.
“No, you did not, but I am not wrong, am I?” I challenge him.
It's silent for a moment before one of the Enforcer’s that’s guarding Asher and Jett says, “No, you are not.”
“Be that as it may, I’m afraid that it is our duty to bring them for questioning.” The main Enforcer says.
“But,” I start, and Erin pushes through them all, coming to stand by me.
“There’s no point; we’ve tried everything, and it pretty much boils down to if we interfere or they refuse to go, then we all end up being taken in, questioned, and detained for a certain amount of time for interfering. It will be far quicker if they just go with them,” Erin explains, although it's done through her teeth, and her fingers are sparking with magic.
“She is right,” the main enforcer agrees.
Kai’s fingers gently turn my face toward him. He kisses me gently and says, “Don’t worry, Beautiful, we’ll be back before you know it.”
My throat suddenly feels tight, so all I do is nod in reply, and he studies me closely before kissing me one last time and then turning toward the Enforcers. As they’re leaving, Cole and the rest of his and Erin’s Bonded come through the door, all of them looking worried as hell.
“One second,” I hear one of them say, and he gains all of our attention again, “I listened in our classes and had a great great grandmother who was friends with Centres and wrote everything down,” he starts to explain, before refocusing, “what I’m getting at is that we’ve set up a room here to make our inquiries and as such you will not be able to contact them for the duration of it using your Bond Lines the magic will be blocked. I didn’t want you to think something nefarious had happened and come after us with all magic blazing.”
That lead ball in my stomach gets heavier, but I nod.
“Understood, thank you for informing us,” Levi replies.
“We’ll let you know when we’re out,” Asher adds, looking at Cole. “I promise.”
With that, they all walk down the hallway, and we watch them disappear.
“I don’t like this,” Harry mutters.
“Me neither. The Order may get their wish and get at least some of us stripped of power,” Dash adds.
“What happens if they think that they’ve found something?” Erin asks, looking around at the group.
“Then they’ll take them into custody until they can prove it either way,” Kysen replies.
“Fuck,” Cole curses.
“Don’t worry, we won’t let that happen,” Levi says.
“We may not have a choice,” Kysen replies, “they won’t come back to tell us what’s happened, they'll simply take them into custody.”
“Will we be able to contact them using the Bond Lines?” Jax asks.
Kysen shakes his head, “I highly doubt it. They know about the Bond Lines; they aren’t going to risk us making a plan for their escape.”
“Good point, so if we wanted to get them out, we’d have to do it the old-fashioned way,” I muse, a plan beginning to form in my mind.
“Whoa, hold up,” Levi says, interrupting my very violent thought process, “we don’t know for certain that will happen, and more than that, they themselves were questioning the legitimacy of the accusation. We need to calm down and stay put for the moment. We’ll give it a couple of hours and then we’ll make a plan.”
“Levi’s right,” Kysen agrees.
Everyone else nods in agreement, and when Levi looks at me with his eyebrow raised, I reluctantly nod my own agreement. I know he is right logically, but I don’t like it, especially since none of us can actually communicate with each other.
“What do we do while we wait?” Hunter asks.