Demigods Academy: Season Three by S. Amore Elisa & Legend Kiera

Author:S. Amore, Elisa & Legend, Kiera
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DreamInkes Publishing
Published: 2022-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

CADE

Still wrapped in green vines and leaves, we carefully, and quietly, crept away from the fort, going back to the small clearing nearby to regroup. Once there, I pulled the greenery off my arms and legs, tossing it to the ground.

“That was Jia, right?” Georgina blurted, the moment we were safely out of hearing distance. “I wasn’t seeing things.”

“No, that was definitely her,” Diego confirmed.

“She didn’t look very kidnapped.”

“Well, we can’t make assumptions,” I added, “We don’t know all the circumstances.”

“Cade, she looked happy. What kind of circumstances need to be in place, for you to be smiling at your captor?” Georgina shook her head.

“We aren’t going to assume anything until we know for sure.” I hated that Georgina was right. When I first saw Jia coming out of the fort, unbound and chatting away with one of the insurgents, all kinds of bad thoughts went through my head. Betrayal being the biggest and ugliest one.

“What should we tell the others?” Diego asked.

I shook my head. “Nothing that we don’t know for sure. I’ll fly above the trees so they can find us.”

Unfurling my wings, I checked them to make sure they weren’t entangled with bits of vine or leaves, then shot up into the air, hovering above the trees. It wasn’t long before I spied three dark dots in the distance, growing nearer by the second. Eventually, Jasmine, Mia, and Marek came into view. We all landed in the clearing.

“What did you see?” Jasmine asked immediately upon her feet touching the ground.

“The stone ruins of a fort, a door leading into a bit of a hill…”

Georgina and Diego glanced at each other as I spoke, which made Jasmine frown and scrutinize each of us. “What’s going on? What aren’t you saying?”

I was in the midst of thinking about how to word things, when Diego blurted it out. “We saw Jia.”

Marek jerked forward. “Was she okay? Was she hurt? Did you talk to her?”

“She’s not hurt, and we didn’t talk to her,” I replied.

His brow furrowed into a few deep lines. “And?”

“She was outside, chatting with one of the men,” Georgina confessed. “It seemed amicable. She didn’t look like she was in any sort of danger.”

“What do you mean, amicable?” Jasmine asked.

I put up my hand before either Georgina or Diego could say anything incriminating or detrimental to Jia’s character. “We don’t really know. We saw her briefly, and we couldn’t hear what they were saying to each other.”

“Jia is not a rat,” Marek growled, getting in my face. “She would never betray anyone at the academy.”

“I never said she was,” I replied calmly.

Grabbing Marek’s arm, Jasmine pulled him back. “You need to cool it, Marek. You’re not helping.”

A grunt left him, but he moved away from me.

“How do you think we should go in?” Jasmine asked.

“Quickly and quietly. If we can avoid a huge fight that would be optimal.” My hand ran along the side where I still had bandages wrapped over my bullet wound. It was no longer bleeding, and it didn’t really hurt, but I could still feel it.

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