“We like Edmund for this, right?” Khalid asked.
“I’m pretty sure his name is Edwin,” Lucian said.
“I don’t actually care. And yes. Everyone else is avoiding Lola like she uses hotdog water for perfume. It has to be him.”
“Found it!” Morgana said, running in. “It was still in her locker.”
She was holding Sage’s bracelet. Sage’s mom gave it to her, and she didn’t think much of it. She took it with her when she got kicked out because she thought she could pawn it if she needed money, but could never bring herself to. When her Da appeared at Samhain, he said he was the one who gave her mum that bracelet. Sage had been wearing it all the time now. She only took it off for magical combat and to shower.
“She doesn’t need jewelry, she needs food,” Lucian said.
“Dipshit, I can do a tracking spell with this and then you can give her food.”
“Do it.”
“You might want to step off my personal space, all of you. I can’t track Lola because of her magic. Salt and iron will also meddle with a tracking spell. Lola didn’t know we were playing her, but she planned for it. There’s no written lore about her magic. She could have taken precaution since the witches meddled with her once.”
Yes, the bitch had trust issues. She couldn’t just trust that I was going to do some fertility god mumbo jumbo while she banged her mate and fix all their problems. I mean, I was lying through my teeth and we were planning on killing them, but she didn’t know that.
The dryads would have believed me. Just saying.
Morgana put Sage’s bracelet on a chain with a crystal on the end and held it over a map of Ravenhelm. It was just spinning and doing nothing.
“Is it broken?” I asked.
“No, but if Lola and Radames remembered how to portal when they got into that pool, then they had two years before they got here to perfect it. They obviously taught that wedgie guy, so he could have taken Sage anywhere.”
“IfIwas taking a person for insurance and could portal, I’d take them to another country,” Elliot said.
“That’s because you aren’t mafia. If they need to stash someone where no one can find them, they don’t need to leave the country. This castle probably has hidey holes from back in the day.”
“I’d take her to the Egyptian school,” Khalid said. “They know it’s deserted and they probably don’t know they’ve upped security and added cameras. It’s symbolic. It was where they realized they’ve been fated since their original life.”
“Take me to the Egyptian school, Jeeves!” I demanded.
I’d wreck every single upgrade to that school to find her and regret nothing. We were seriously ahead on points in the lottery contest. When we won, they could just take it out of my trust to pay for whatever damages I caused.
“She’s not there,” Lucian said. “Think about it. They took security seriously when they thought two regular humans broke in. There are extra guards and cameras. Now that they know it wasn’t regular humans and who woke up when they broke in. Ifanyone showed up at the Egyptian school who wasn’t supposed to, they’d know and Headmaster Mykene already would have brought Sage back.”
Damn. Morgana’s pendulum was still erratically jumping. I didn’t know the first thing about tracking spells, but I was pretty sure it wasn’t supposed to do that.
“I don’t know about tracking spells, but her blood sugar just went up on her glucose monitor like someone got her food. Which means she’s on campus and not that far away from her phone or the sensor and her phone couldn’t communicate.”
“I could kiss you,” I said.
“Please don’t. Based on what I’m seeing, her blood sugar should be stable soon and we can just ask her about her surroundings.”
Huh. I was pissed with the little Muppet and decided the stabbing was also because he violated her privacy and hacked her glucose monitor.
I was actually glad it did it now.
Ididn’t particularly care that Edward was going to get brutally murdered before anyone figured out what his name actually was. I didn’t go announcing to everyone I had diabetes, but it was pretty obvious and Ididannounce it because of the trials. The numbnuts acted like this was the first he was hearing about it.
Now that I felt like shit, but the crisis was mostly averted, I could deal with getting out of here. The first thing I needed to do was figure out where I was. I was underground and near water. This place felt familiar, but I couldn’t remember being here before. Maybe I was here, but in a different part? The stone looked familiar.
First things first. I needed backup, and I needed to contact my mates. Liam might have stabbed someone who didn’t have super healing. They tried to reach out to me through the bond, but it sounded like they were underwater because of the condition I was in.
“Guys? That Edwin dude electrocuted me and took me somewhere.”
