Page 17 of Iona's Christmas
“Say it, Myers,” I demanded. I wanted him to say it.
“Your abilities,” Myers spat, going red.
“Abilities?” I questioned.
“I’m well aware some of you are…” Myers broke off as he sought for a word, and hate welled in front of me.
“Freaks?” I supplied, and Myers blanched.
“No!” he exclaimed, offended. Or so I believed, he could have been acting.
“No?” I replied.
“Do not put words in my mouth. I don’t think you are fuckin’ freaks. Ain’t gonna lie, Warden, I know your club is running illegal shit, and it’s my job to stop it. But that doesn’t mean I’m unaware of the good you do. You’re an idiot if you think I don’t look beyond my badge and at what the MC does.”
My entire family was now alert and on guard. Myers would die if he put one step wrong.
“So, you came to blackmail us to help you?” Dynamo asked. Her hair was starting to float around her head as static built up inside her.
“No. I’ve come to beg you. One of you must have the ability to see where the babies are. See if they’re alive still. I need that. Those kids may be okay because he’s their father. If they are, I need to rescue them,” Myers spat quickly.
I stared at the man who was my arch-nemesis. Dramatic as that might sound. Desperation rolled off him, and I glanced at Soul.
“Truth,” Soul said clearly. Myers looked at him and flinched at Soul’s expression. Soul was staring directly at him, and it would un-nerve anyone.
Confusion crossed Myers' face, but he turned back to me. “I will get on my knees and beg Warden if I have to. But help me save those kids.Please.”
“Do you have anything belonging to them?” I questioned.
“Yes, in my car,” he replied.
“Go fetch it,” I ordered, and Myers rushed out. “Can you do this?” I asked Oracle.
“Don’t know. But Cécile can. I’ll try, but we may have to tap her,” Oracle responded.
“How will we get it down to her?” Blister demanded as he watched the door.
“Are we going to trust Myers won’t use this against us? We find the kid, and he arrests the club for kidnapping?” Dare added, her face creased in concern.
“Yeah, I’m with Dare. Myers has been breaking his back for years to arrest one of us. This is dangerous,” Kosmic replied.
“We can’t leave those kids out there,” I said. “What’s our solution?”
“Oracle does his shit, and we keep silent and rescue the children ourselves. Drop them near a shop or house and keep an eye on them until they’re collected,” Wisecrack suggested.
“That will protect us from Myers,” Undertaker agreed.
“You do not need protecting from me. Not on this. I understand only too well what would happen to you all if the wrong people found out. You’d be locked in labs and experimented on. Pain would become a way of life for you. I believe in the law, but I don’t believe in torture,” Myers said from behind us.
“Truth. But there’s something he’s holding back,” Soar announced.
“They did that to his grandmother, it’s in his thoughts. She was a medium and not a fraud. The government found out and took her. She was missing for three years before she escaped. His grandfather helped hide her and fell in love with her. His grandmother’s story was handed down as a warning. Myers knows full well that psychic abilities existed. He just didn’t expect to find them in us.
“Whatever Myers has on the MC around our abilities, he’d rather die than tell. Myers doesn’t believe that people like us should be abused nor hunted down. In fact, as much as it painsme to say it, and probably him to admit it, Myers would rather die that give us up,” Romeo said.
I nodded. Nobody would lie to Romeo once he was in their head. Myers’ jaw dropped, but he bit back his words and instead held out a sealed plastic bag. Inside were two more bags which contained a bloody teddy bear in each. Seeing that made me determined to find those kids.
“The grandmother claims those are the kid’s favourite bears. She says the babies slept with them and carried them everywhere,” Myers said. “How do we do this?”