DreameNovelChapter 0246
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| finally get the kids to settle down and watch a movie in the cinema room. Trying to act like everything is fine in
front of the kids whilst one of them is missing is damn near impossible. When Sammy and Jensen begin to argue
over seats, it takes everything innot to completely lose my temper over something so minor. | force a smile
on my face and talk to them calmly, trying to reason with the that there are plenty of seats to choose from when
inside I'm screaming. | want to shake the pair of them and Il them there are much bigger issues to worry about
than a seat right now.
| creep from the room and quietly close the door behind m before leaning against the wall and sinking to the
floor, allowing myself a few moments to process everything. Harper is missing, in a realm she does not know and
Mason is in self-destruct mode, blaming himself for being bad father. | had tried the soft approach with him,
assuring him this wasn't his fault and teenagers are just stupid sometimes, but that hadn't helped. So I'd gone
for the harsh approach, reminding him that his pity party wasn’t what we needed right now and that we had to
support each other and find Harper. That had backfired, and he had turned the blon me.
He had accusedof breaking my promise that I'd make sure he was a good father. | hadn't. He is a good
father, and I'd had no input in making him one. He'd done that all on his own. I'm not hurt that he thinks | failed
him. I'm hurt that even after all this time, he still doubts himself | thought we were past all this.
| want to mind link with my bond group and ask for updates, but it has barely been 5 minutes since Josie updated
and are trying to track them via CCTV of businesses along the route.
Now we know for sure that Harper left of her own free will and wasn’t taken. I'm more confident she will be okay.
I'm almost sure of it. She is so resilient like her mother and has Mason’s unwavering determination and
independence. She will probably turn up back here, dragging that boy along with her. My biggest worry is that
the boy, Dillon, turned 18 a few months ago, according to his employment record. This means he has his gifts
and knows this realm, but Harper doesn’t, making her more vulnerable if he is not a good person. | just hope the
boy realises who's daughter he is with and doesn’t try anything
| hear a bang from upstairs and instantly go on high alert. All the kids are down here, there should be no one
upstairs. From down here | can just about make out multiple sets of footsteps.
“Is that you guys upstairs?” | ask into the mind link as | push up to my feet.
“No, but it might be the team | sent, or Harper,” Deacon responds.
“Unless Harper brought a group back with her, it's not her. I'll go check it out,” | say as | move to the stairs,
pausing at the bottom to listen.
“Clear,” | hear a male voice call out and | walk up the stairs This must be Deacon's team.
I'm not sure why they are searching the house though. Don’t they think we have done that multiple times
already?
“The girl said there are more kids here, they have to be somewhere, check the gardens.” | hear someone bark
out an order and | freeze on the stairs.
This is not Deacon's team, they wouldn't be looking for the rest of the kids. I look back down the stairs to where
the kids are watching a movie. If | go up there and give myself away, I'll leave the kids vulnerable, but if | wait
here, and they find me, I'm dead, and they'll take the kids anyway. | wish | had Mason and Josie’s skill at
molecular manipulation. I'd simply seal the door closed until help arrives, but I'm more likely to just dissolve the
door than seal it.
“SOS. There's a group here looking for the kids. We are hiding in the basement. | think they have Harper,” | say
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into the mind ink.
“On our way,” they respond as one, pante and anger flooding our bond.
“Fuck, they have a wand. We can’t port in,” Lake curses.
“Get as close as you can and run. We are in the basement b if they find us | can’t hold them back alone,” | say,
trying not to break under the crushing weight of fear.
| creep the rest of the way up the stairs, praying they dismiss the door to the basement as a pantry, which is
exactly what it looks like from the kitchen. It's painted to catch the kitchen cupboards. If | can sneak out of it, |
could cause a distraction and then run, and hopefully lead them away from the kids. | put my hand on the door
and press my ear to it, listening for sounds of movement in the kitchen.
A glass smashes very close to the door and | hold my breathe tightening my grip on the door handle.
“You're so fucking clumsy,” a male voice grunts.
“Fuck off, it's just a glass, I'm sure it won't be missed,” another voice says.
“You had better clean it up. We need to make it look like no one was here if we are going to catch them when
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmthey cback.”
“With what?” Clumsy asks.
“I don’t know, check the fucking cupboards, there has to be a dustpan and brush in one of them.”
| hear the doors in the kitchen open and close and pray they open the right one before they get to the door I'm
currently holding closed. The handle I'm holding moves as someone attempts to open it and | pull on the handle,
stopping it from opening.
“Huh, this one is locked,” Clumsy says.
“It can’t be locked from this side because there is no keyhole, which means it is locked from the inside, which
means someone is behind it,” the man says and my heart drops.
“They've found us,” | say into the mind link a split second before I'm knocked back from the door as it’s kicked
with such force that the door frsplinters and two huge men grin down atmenacingly.
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