“She has to know, but I’m not sure.”
“Alright so what are they wanting to do?”
“They’re going to dig up the body. They used the dead to create this blood contract, it’s going to have to be the dead to undo it. It also conceals Maggie’s family away from the watchful eyes of the Underground. Nobody knows who she is…or else they would have come after her by now. Marvin has been protecting her identity all this time.”
“It’s probably because of the grandmother. Not the daughter or even Maggie.”
“So the moment we disturb any part of this family, the veil will be lifted.”
“Exactly.”
I put my hand over my mouth to silence my gasp. Harvey was listening intently while Clementine closed her eyes. Asha silentlyshot up but when nobody else said anything, she slowly sat back down with a tight mouth, getting angrier by the second.
“We need to do this just before the games,” someone whispered. “Get the parents out of the house and find a way to get to their backyard without being noticed.”
“Are they willing to work with us?”
“Right now, nobody trusts anybody. I don’t trust them; they don’t trust us. I say we do it ourselves. This is my mother. My family.”
“It’s his sister,” another voice said. “His sister and you’re simply the nephew that isn’t known. Maggie should be here for this to happen.”
“Well she’s not here and we don’t have the time to wait because the moment they kill Marvin; they are coming after all of us. She needs to be warned.”
“We don’t even know the damn student and we’re expecting the dead girl to undo a contract? One of the hardest spells to break?”
“Marvin has kept her off the radar for this long. I don’t think he knows about his son’s existence.”
“Say we break the spell. What do we tell her mother about Maggie’s whereabouts? We just turn up at her house without her daughter or any idea of where she is?” Namir asked. “I’m not even accustomed to having to speak with the parents and I’m trying to marry this woman, but I lost her? I lost my mate that I’m trying to marry?! Do you hear how fucking insane that sounds?!”
“Calm down baby bro,” another voice chilled. “Just calm down. Everyone is searching for the damn moon on your behalf, trust me. We are prepared and ready for whatever this comes to. The mother is going to have to hear the truth.”
“I told you the Wetlands are behind you and trained to go. Souxie knows the girl who died. She needs to be included in this–––”
“No. I don’t want another student involved. After Maggie and her roommate went missing, the last thing we need is to drag the rest of her friends in. What if they’re being targeted?”
“It’s possible…” Another voice responded as the paper began to twitch. No one said anything for a moment, just lost in their own thoughts before the conversation picked up again.
“We don’t even know what we’re dealing with when it comes to her mother.”
“According to my uncle, she is very much like father, like daughter. She’s been in hiding all these years which means her mother knows what she is but since Maggie never showed signs of it, there was no reason to say anything. So she can’t possibly know the truth about Maggie, or she would have said something years ago.”
The paper slowly folded into the quiet shape of a man with the head of a wolf before folding back down to a wolf on four legs.
“We need to get to that body before they do. If a war is about to happen, we need everyone up, aware, and ready.”
It was silent for a second before voices and conversations filtered as the note crumbled up into a ball before unfolding once more into a man walking in place.
“This is Ace Martin of the Mortal Affairs Department…”
The room fell quiet before the voice spoke.
“This is…”
The name, muffled and distorted by the crumbling of the paper shifting into a man sitting behind a desk.
“I can’t give you any more information than what we’re willing to share,” Ace said. “We know where the body is. I’m the one that was hired to do the contract.”
“You’re related to Xavier Martin as well?” Another voice asked.
