Guardian Academy 1: Seeds Of Magic (The Mystery Of The Four Corners) by Maria Amor

Author:Maria Amor [Amor, Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-07T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Julia kicked off her shoes as she stepped into the apartment, bending over to pick them up off the floor as Dylan began to take off his own dress shoes. They’d gone to four different parties between Thanksgiving and the week before Christmas, and she was no closer to figuring out who she could get information from about the situation at Sandrine.

“Maybe we’ll just have to wait until we go back in January,” Dylan suggested, and Julia shook her head.

“Someone, somewhere, has to know something,” she insisted—as she had with every party that they’d gone to. She’d made a point of focusing on the fire and earth-aligned families’ invitations, using the excuse that most of the functions her grandmother had sent her to over the summer had been water-dominated, and she already had good contacts amongst her own alignment. “I’m just getting tired of spending hours in high heels and a dress that could pay someone’s rent, for hours on end listening to some earth Guardian-in-training talk about his rock collection.”

Ostensibly, the parties she was invited to were supposed to introduce Julia to different high-ranking families—and their mating-age sons—so that she could make an informed choice once she came fully into her abilities and could start to decide on who to form a relationship with. But she’d gone into each of the parties with the intention of finding something out—finding out who might know something about Dean Dimitrios’ hiring at Sandrine, or why the theft accusations were going unchecked, even though there was no merit in them. Julia had thought that she would at least figure out a lead from one of the people at the parties she attended, but thus far, she had gotten nowhere.

“I’m sure someone, somewhere, does know something,” Dylan said.

“Can you unzip me?” Somewhere along the line—Julia wasn’t sure when—she’d come to rely on Dylan’s presence, and just accept his help with little things, as if he were her brother. She felt the zipper along her back sliding down, and held the fabric of her dress against the slip underneath it, turning to look at Dylan. “We need to figure out what’s going on, and the parties aren’t accomplishing that.”

“We have a break from them next week,” Dylan pointed out to her. “Maybe you’ll deign to let me in on your long-term planning on this, so we can take it from the top and actually—you know—work together?” Julia smiled at him; she had plans that she wanted to implement when they got back to Sandrine in January—plans that would take his help to accomplish—but without a viable lead, she didn’t know how to aim the efforts of her friends and allies, much less Dylan.

“We can talk about it,” Julia said. She stepped into the hall and opened the door to her room, tossing her shoes in the direction of her closet. As she slipped the dress off and carefully extricated herself from the complicated undergarments underneath it, she considered what it was that she actually could tell Dylan about her long-range plans for investigating what was going on at Sandrine.

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