Deviation: Altera Realm Trilogy Book 2 by Jennifer Collins

Author:Jennifer Collins [Collins, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Createspace
Published: 2014-06-04T22:00:00+00:00

He really was going to kill her one day. Reed sighed and picked up speed as he searched the palace for Syney. He told her to wait for him outside the council room. He even said he might be late. Every week, while Syney was in the council meetings, he took the time to meet with her other Protectors and review the week and prepare for the next. And of course this time she wasn’t there at all. He had looked everywhere he assumed she might go and had made three circles around the whole damn palace. Hunter had been right: She didn’t listen very well. Before leaving on the mission, Hunter had sat him down and given him some advice regarding protecting Syney.

“She’s always going to think she knows better, so just let her do what she wants, and when it backfires, tell her that’s why she shouldn’t do it. And get used to the fact that she isn’t going to listen to you,” Hunter had said.

Reed almost had resigned right then. Sure, he had protected Syney for almost a year, but he’d always had Hunter to tell him what to do and to help keep Syney in check. It was much different without him, and man, did Reed miss Hunter.

Finally, as Reed stalked across the open walkway, he spotted Syney sitting on a bench in the gardens. He took off at a run and nearly yelled at her as he approached, but then he saw the look on her face. He hadn’t seen that face in a while, and it scared him a little. She sat on a stone bench, staring off at nothing in front of her, her hand on the necklace she had started to wear after her birthday, a brown-and-purple stone on a silver chain. He slowly walked up to her and sat next to her.

After a while she looked at him. “You told me to meet you outside the council room, didn’t you?”

He nodded. Using words might lead to yelling, he reasoned.

“I’m sorry. I got distracted.”

He nodded again.

She gave him a sad smile. “I’m getting paired.”

“With Adam?”

She looked away as tears welled in her eyes. “Yup.”

“I thought you liked Adam?” he asked slowly.

Syney took a deep breath. “I do.” She looked back to him. “How did you know?”

Reed opened his mouth to answer but stopped. He had a feeling she wasn’t asking about Adam. “You were the only one who could make him really, really mad.”

Syney laughed. “I really could.”

“Plus he looked at you as if you were the only person in the world.”

She looked away and bit her lip. “I thought all Protectors felt that way.”

“No, they protect and put their lives on the line, but most see it as a job. Hunter was only happy when he was with you—even when you two were fighting.” Reed sighed. He shouldn’t be talking about this, he knew, but that was another thing Hunter had told him: Syney wasn’t like normal Magic Users. She wanted to be personally connected to people, even her Protectors.

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