Destiny Rising by Siobhan Davis

Author:Siobhan Davis [Davis, Siobhan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Siobhan Davis
Published: 2015-08-30T05:00:00+00:00

PART III - CAL

CHAPTER 14

I accept the call with a huge amount of apprehension and a fairly healthy dose of skepticism. It’s been over two months since I’ve had any involvement with my arch-nemesis, Zane Anders, or the object of our mutual obsession. I’ve no idea why he’s contacting me now. He probably wants to gloat over the fact that he got the girl, relish rubbing my nose in it. A familiar surge of aggression flares inside me, and my fists clench at my sides.

When I first spotted Ariana Skyee on Novo, I thought my biggest challenge would be winning her heart.

But I was wrong.

Holding onto it was the hardest test of all.

And I failed.

Sucking in a sharp breath, I connect to the line. “What do you want?” I snap.

“Have you heard from her?” Zane asks, no pretense of formalities either.

His question throws me off guard. Why would I hear from her? I asked her to make a choice and she did. She turned her back on me without as much as a goodbye. The pain of it still cuts me to the bone. To think that I meant so little to her, that everything she told me was an empty truth. She played me for a right fool. “Why would I hear from her?”

“Stop playing games,” he hisses. “This is serious. Have you heard from her or not?”

The frantic tone in his voice stops me dead in my tracks. A fluttery feeling of dread sweeps through me, and my mouth is sandpaper dry. “I haven’t heard from her since she left for Greece.” There’s a long hesitation on the other end of the line. “What’s going on?”

“She’s missing,” Zane says, almost whispering it.

Anxiety squirms in my chest. “Since when?” My voice is strained.

“No one has seen her in two days. The doctor is missing too.”

“Perhaps they are on their way back to Saoirse HQ,” I suggest. Though Taylor is the world’s biggest flirt, he’s also a super-smart guy. If Ariana is with him, then she must be all right. There’s another telling pause on the line, and I have a real bad feeling about this. “What aren’t you telling me?”

“Micha’s off the grid. We think she’s looking for Ari.”

“Why?” Then I remember something that Calista Corr said to us when we were in Florida. To be honest, I didn’t pay that much attention to it. It seemed a little far-fetched. Micha is just a big-time freak as far as I’m concerned. And I can’t imagine that she’d expend energy looking for one solitary girl who hardly poses any threat to her. But am I wide of the mark?

Zane exhales loudly down the line. “She has a personal agenda, and we have reason to believe she intends to hurt Ari.”

“And you’re not going to explain that to me, are you?” My knuckles bleach white as I fist my hands at my side.

“All that matters is she’s in danger. I’d thought she might be with you.”

Razor-sharp shards of pain puncture my chest at the suggestion that something might have happened to her.

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