Aroused in Fire by Jadyn Chase

Author:Jadyn Chase [Chase, Jadyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-04T16:00:00+00:00

9

Rosie

Dover Castle looked different standing outside it with Alex at my side. The place represented something so much more significant than all its history put together.

The twins rushed forward. “Come on! We can get on the first tour.”

Somehow, I wound up paying for all four of us to enter the Castle. The three men—if you can call them that—stood back and let me take the point. Never mind. Like Jackie said, this was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. If by some miracle Alex did turn out to be from 1840, I didn’t want to miss any of this.

A young woman tour guide met us at the information center. “You’re the only early birds here, so if you’re ready, we can get started.”

“We’re ready,” Jake told her.

She led us through the whole tour. The twins and I didn’t pay much attention. We’d all heard it before. Alex, on the other hand, drank in every word with riveted fascination. He studied the turnstiles and the wires and all the mockups in the minutest detail.

I stifled the urge to hurry the tour along. We had to play a part in order to get the information we wanted. When we came to a certain communications room, Alex drifted to my side.

“This is it, Rosie,” he whispered. “This is the entrance to the second level.”

“This?” I looked all around. “It can’t be. This is just an ordinary room like all the others.”

“It’s right over there.” He nodded toward a corner. A large communications relay sat there. I didn’t see anything else but blank walls. “I remember it very distinctly.”

The twins caught us peering around, but since we were the only people on the tour, we couldn’t exactly split off and go hunting.

All four of us remained silent and played along until the tour guide returned to the information center. We smiled and thanked her and pretended to float away.

Once outside, Jake and Jackie mobbed us. “What was it? Was that room the entrance?”

Alex nodded. “We have to find a way to get back there.”

“There’s another tour leaving in five minutes,” I told them. “We can pretend to go along with them and peel off.”

The suspense sapped my strength waiting for the tour to get back to the room, but it paid off. When the other visitors left, Alex slipped behind the communications relay. The twins and I waited, but he didn’t come out.

Jackie smacked his lips and stepped into the corner. He stopped dead and stared. When I joined him, I found myself looking through a gap in the wall. How could so many people work and study Dover Castle all these years without noticing this?

The twins and I ducked through the opening into another tunnel. Alex had already walked several dozen yards in front of us and we hurried to catch up. We hung back a few paces and let him lead.

Unlike the rest of the Castle, this tunnel one hadn’t been renovated. He stopped in front of a nondescript little room. A single window high overhead let in the only light.

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