I stared at her, unsure where she was going with this.
“When was the last time she called you?” Daphne grabbed her jacket. “We don’tcall. That’s alarming.” She pointed at my pocket, where I’d stashed the note. “We need to make sure she’s okay.”
“Wait,” I said as something hit me. “You said her father was pardoned. When was that?”
“Last night,” she replied.
My head started to pound. “He said that if he ever got out, he’d kill her.”
I wanted to burn down the tunnels, the university, everything in my sight when I found Blair’s bedroom in the Fawn Quarters empty.
My blood boiled as I took in the scene. Her disheveled bed, the half-empty water bottle on the small nightstand, and … I inched farther, looking down at the sheets to find a small notebook.
I grabbed it, every muscle in my body tightening when I flipped through the pages of her mother’s diary.
Daphne was right; she had been a Fawn.
Did Blair just find this out?
Or did she know before?
I’d told Brooks to call Nico and ask him to hack into the university camera footage to see everyone who entered and left the university. If Blair’s father had come here, he’d have to be on camera.
I clenched my hand around the diary.
Unless …
Baring my teeth, I knew exactly what was happening when I called Brooks, who was still with Daphne.
“Blair’s not here,” I told him.
“Fuck,” he said on the other line. “Nico is getting into the system right now.” He paused for a second. “Whoever texted you wanted you to believe she was safe down there.” He cleared his throat. “They think you’re gone, in the city, with your family, Enzo.”
“I know.” I ground my teeth while refraining from smashing my phone through the goddamn wall. “They knew this was the perfect time to take her because she’d be unprotected.”
A tightness formed in my chest, rough and hard, spreading until it hit my heart. “Where do you think they’d take her?”
“I have no idea,” he replied. I heard him whispering to Daphne in the background but couldn’t make out their words.
“Either a Son took her from the tunnels for himselforher father is down here. You keep having Nico check the footage.”
I pressed my tooth into my lip until it drew blood, debating on asking Brooks to call the vice president. They were supposed to hold meetings down here today. I could ask him if he had seen Blair.
But right now, after what Daphne had told us, I didn’t trust him.
If he had shot our fathers because he saw Brooks’s father as a traitor, then I didn’t want the fucker knowing my whereaboutsorthat my Fawn was in trouble.
I also didn’t want him to know I was here.
A thousand thoughts ran through my mind like a movie I couldn’t shut off.
Did they shoot my father to get me away from the university?
“You still there?” Brooks asked.
“Yeah. I’m going to search the tunnels.”
Brooks let out a long breath. “You want me to come down there with you?”
