Clocksworth Academy by Penny BroJacquie

Author:Penny BroJacquie
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Penny BroJacquie
Published: 2020-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

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She could not remember much of what followed after their arrival in Weengarts. She did remember that Eric carried her up in his arms into the Clocksworth Academy. She recalled the concerned look she saw on Valerie’s and Carson’s faces when they realized how poorly she was. She remembered the Master caressing her hair protectively as she was lying in bed in the room prepared for her. She recollected Vittor giving her a shot in her arm. Beyond that, blank...

She was told that she had been sedated for about a week. A doctor named Dr. Camilleri oversaw the restoration of her health and his face was the first thing Floriana had seen a few hours before when she opened her eyes after a seven-day-long sleep.

Now, lying in her comfortable bed, she took a look around the large bedroom. Rosewood furniture, green velvet armchairs decorated with fluffy cushions, a curtain of elegant ivory lace hanging at the window, and red roses in a heavy crystal vase on the nightstand beside her bed cozied up the room.

A knock on the door interrupted her thoughts. “Come in,” she responded weakly. Eric made his appearance behind the half-open door. He looked flawless in his beige linen trousers and his white, V-neck shirt. However, this time it was a book he was holding in his hands, not a tan envelope.

Floriana sat up in the bed and beckoned him to sit in an armchair.

“You look well,” he said as he sank into the chair.

“Thanks to you,” she replied, straightening her cotton pajama shirt. “I wouldn’t have made it without your help.” She smiled shyly. “Did we get the time machine?”

“Oh... nobody told you?”

“Tell me what?”

“You fainted away before we reached their secret base. I couldn’t risk losing you, so I pulled over and made the jump right there.”

“You mean we left the time machine behind?” Floriana’s jaw dropped.

“Exactly,” Eric said quietly.

“But you said that you had plan B.”

“That was my Plan B. Bringing you back home alive.”

“But you shouldn’t have done it! You should have left me behind. You should have destroyed their time machine! What’s going to happen now? Are they going to alter history again?” She shouted furiously.

“They will surely do. But it won’t be the first time someone tries to alter history. We’ll stop them just like we stopped many others before. We’re that good.” Eric retained his calm attitude.

“You would have succeeded if it wasn’t for me. I was a distraction, a burden,” she said, her eyes watery.

“Don’t be so hard on yourself. The rings let us come back. And you did a great job. You cracked the code to which Vittor concocted an antidote. And you gave General Müller and his friends a good lesson. You acted like a Ninja. Ninja Flora,” he said with a twinkle in his eyes.

“Do not call me Flora,” she protested.

“Okay. Just Ninja.” His lips parted a little at first then quickly widened into a roguish smile.

“Please, this is a moment of my life I don’t even dare to remember.

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