Sister Seeker by Shelby Hailstone Law

Author:Shelby Hailstone Law [Law, Shelby Hailstone]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-31T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12: I Stand by My Friends (All of Them)

Elaine hadn’t spoken to either one of us after she shot Wendy. She’d been completely focused on tying Wendy up even tighter than before, with the ropes around her arms as well as her wrists and around her knees as well as her ankles. And then she’d finally gotten to her feet and turned to face us both.

“We need to get out of here. And we need to warn Theresa what’s coming.”

I couldn’t leave it at that, even if Andrew was numbly nodding along to her commands. “Elaine,” I said, “you have to know—”

“Later,” Elaine said in a crisp tone that had me straightening up without realizing it.

“There’s an evacuation to run,” Andrew agreed, his tone just as crisp. And I realized with a sinking heart that not only had Andrew reverted back to his soldier self, but it looked like he’d taught Elaine the same trick.

We’re not going to let those two get away with destroying themselves, right? Lila asked.

Not in a million years.

Good.

With that decided, I slipped into a frown. But they’re right. That’s not the most important problem right now. I don’t know what’s going on with Wendy, but I doubt that brand she put on Andrew is a good thing.

That’s probably a solid assumption.

I nodded as I followed Elaine and Andrew out of the room. Elaine locked the door behind us from our side of the room and then looked right at Theresa—who looked like she was waiting for the other shoe to drop. “She’s here for revenge on Andrew—and if we don’t move fast, the Family is going to destroy us all.”

Theresa’s entire expression as she turned Andrew’s way screamed “I knew it,” but to her credit, she didn’t say it out loud. Instead, she simply nodded once, sharply, and then turned to Santo. “You know what to do.”

Santo gave her the same sharp nod—I could more easily see the family resemblance when they both had their game faces on like that—and then rushed off without another word.

“You’re . . . prepared,” I said mildly.

Theresa let out a laugh that didn’t have any real mirth in it. “My sister is probably the last Future Seeker in the world. If you think we haven’t had plans in place for what to do when King William inevitably found us, you underestimate what I’ll do for my family.”

“Do you know where you’ll go?” Elaine asked.

“That depends entirely on whether or not we need to fight our way out,” Theresa said. “If we can slip away undetected, I know of a few uninhabited islands.”

“Those could be difficult to defend,” Andrew noted. “You have enough people in your group with limited access to magic that evacuating would be a challenge in the middle of an ocean.”

Theresa glared at him. “Don’t talk to me right now,” she warned. “Keep very, very quiet, and I might keep overlooking the fact that you’ve disrupted my home.”

Andrew frowned at that, but he didn’t say anything, either.

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