Shadowspell Academy: Year of the Chameleon by Shannon Mayer

Author:Shannon Mayer [Mayer, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hijinks Ink Publishing
Published: 2021-03-29T22:00:00+00:00

9

Wally

I ran from the marble gardens back the way Wild and I had come, dodging a few pedestrians, but there weren’t actually that many people kicking around. Rory said they needed a distraction. But I was questioning myself now about leaving Wild behind.

What if the guys were in bigger trouble than I could handle? I put a hand to my head. “What the hell was I thinking?”

It was well after midnight now. Though the time from when Wild had been taken by the Shadowkiller to now had gone by both fast and slow. From what I could feel, the guys weren’t too far. But to run off like that . . . it wasn’t like me. I knew it.

What if Ethan had done something?

I let out a slow breath. “I’ll make this right.”

I had only one goal. I would find the guys and take them to Wild. Then we’d all be together, and we’d have a sixty-seven percent better chance of survival. Maybe even seventy percent if we were very lucky.

At least, that was what I told myself. Because if I was being honest, the numbers were not in our favor, not at all. Two Chameleons were trying to control or kill Wild (or possibly one, then the other), we were being hunted by the Helix family on behalf of Frost, and we’d already lost Colt. To Ethan. And now maybe he’d turned on us again.

My throat tightened, feeling his death hit me once more. Feeling him die and not being able to stop it like we had with Ethan.

“I should have let you die in the Culling Trials,” I said to myself. He’d fooled us more times than I wanted to admit. All because he was strong and handsome and a good liar.

On a main street once more, I did a slow turn, searching for that sensation inside my head that was the guys.

Pete’s shifter energy was the first I found, and he wasn’t far. I’d pull him aside as soon as I could and tell him we had to get away from Ethan. Orin and Gregory would back me up, too, I was sure. And so would Rory.

A tight smile on my face, I ran down the street, taking turns almost blindly until I found them.

Only they weren’t hiding and they weren’t alone.

I slid to a stop as I stared at the Shade with the bright red hair, Mr. Helix right next to her. Ethan was beside him, his chin to his chest. Rory was flat out on the ground at the Shade’s feet, her boot on the middle of his back.

Pete turned and saw me. “RUN, WALLY!”

He was too late, though. I spun and ran face first into the twin’s oversized muscled chest, bouncing off and hitting the ground hard. He reached down and dragged me to my feet, quickly tying my hands behind my back with something that felt like a zip tie.

“Zap straps, only pansies use zap straps,” Gregory growled, and Mr. Helix cuffed him in the back of the head, sending him to the ground, unconscious.

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