Tenebrasco: The Pearl Wielder Trilogy by Hannah Reed

Author:Hannah Reed [Reed, Hannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-11T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 22

It was 6:30am in the morning and April was leaning on Alex’s shoulder in one of the President’s private jets. Her second-time flying was far more luxurious than the helicopter. The seats were plush and there was no need for one of those dreadful harnesses. While Connor and Alex discussed what their Dad’s ulterior motives were April pretended to sleep. She knew they didn’t believe that Darius was merely fleeing, but right now April didn’t care. She was trying to keep her mind occupied.

The knowledge that she had lost her Mum hadn’t fully sunk in. It was as if her mind was refusing to accept the information. She wanted to hear it from her Dad, to see it in his eyes that her Mum was gone forever. April always believed that one day her and her Mum would connect and move past their struggles. If her Mum was truly gone then April didn’t know what she was going to do. She tried to keep her spirits up last night, but the episode at the lake had terrified her. It was as if she had been possessed. The Onyx coloured beast still flashed through her mind. The more she focused the more she thought it looked familiar, like something from a dream that had been long forgotten.

April gripped the stone she had been drawn to at the bottom of the pool. She tried to put it down, but then without realising she would find it back in her hand again. Even now when April turned her attention to it she realised that she was subconsciously caressing it with her thumb. It brought her an eerie sense of calm. April would ask the pearl shamans what it was when she returned to the sea. Maybe they could explain her uncontrollable power surge too. She should ask her Dad as well she thought. He would know what was going on. But, April was more worried about her Dad than she was for herself. How was he coping without her Mum? These thoughts went around and around in her head. She wanted to be back home. She closed her eyes and willed herself to drift to sleep. The sounds of Connor and Alex’s conversation soon became dull background noise.

“Do you know what Dad’s doing?” Connor asked in a hushed voice.

“Me? No,” Alex replied in confusion. “Do you?”

“No,” Connor replied quickly. “I just thought maybe you still hacked into Dad’s systems.”

“Oh, no. I used to do that for fun. I’ve been away so long everything’s probably changed.” Alex looked down at April to see if she was asleep.

“But you could?” Connor asked. His eyes followed Alex’s. Once again Connor had been in the wrong place at the wrong time. That could have been his shoulder.

“I could,” Alex said slowly. “We could help April, help the mer.” Alex raised his eyes to study his brother’s expression. He couldn’t tell if Connor was on the same page as him.

“Dad would kill us,” Connor replied quietly. His gaze was now firmly fixed on April’s golden head.

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