Chapter 20: Finding Her
Clint
Uncharacteristic of me, I cut shout my date with Lenote and canceled my threesome tou. Was the threesome with Lenore and Heidi okay? Yes, but I felt odd afterward. Lenore has been acting strangely Ince Monday, but I have ton. My birthday is a week away so that can explain my behavior. Why is she acting differently though?
“Maybe she is realizing that she isn’t our mate, Carter says in my mind. But we don’t know for certain that she isn’t. I still don’t want a mate, but I can tell that Carter is finding the fden of one more appealing than before. After I dropped Lenore off, I went home. Cassius and Carter were watching a movie when my stomach growled so I set out to find Avery. When she wasn’t in her room curled up with a book, I freaked out. She’s always here. I saw the lod of surpalse on my brothers‘ faces when I told them that she wasn’t in her foom and her backpack wasn’t either.
Yes, Avery tried to leave Naga before and she knows the consequences for anyone who does before they graduate. She won’t try that again especially being so close to graduating. It is only 35 weeks away, not years as it was the last time she tried. That was when my parents showed mercy on her. Instead of beating and imprisoning her, as is our custom, they made her a servant. She worked her debt off as a maid and they were impressed by her diligence or perhaps they saw something in her, but nevertheless, they promoted her to be our personal assistant. Since that day, even after my parents‘ death, Avery has made sure that my brothers and I have been taken care of.
I have been such a prick to her despite her never doing anything to me. That is why I gave her my shirt to wear today. Mrs. Moore, in her roundabout way, has made me start to appreciate the void that Avery so willingly filled. I know that most dragons terrify her, but she never was afraid of her adoptive parents pr mine. I don’t think that she fears some of our teachers either. But she does my
can’t help but think that we are somehow to blame.
It is approaching midnight and all of the usual places a teenage girl would go have closed. Avery isn’t a normal teenage girl so we can rule out checking the malls and clubs in our territory. The library was closed before school was let out in honor of our opening game. Cassius, ever the alpha, suggested that we start where we last saw her which was leaving Mrs. Moore’s class.
Once we arrived at school, we went in the back way because we knew where Coach kept his spare key so that anyone on the team could come in late after school or on the weekends to workout. We split up so that we could cover more ground. Cassius started at Mrs. Moore’s classroom, Conner went to her locker, and I went to the front doors. We were to meet at the back door of the gym. There was nothing by the front door so I started to make my way back. As I did, I caught Lenore and her friends‘ scents near the door to the basement.
Why would they go down there? Letting curiosity get the better of me, I went down several flights of stairs. At first, nothing seemed out of the ordinary but the further I descended into the ancient bowels of the school I started to pick up this metallic almost coppery scent. It is the scent of blood. Carter took over and vaulted us into the darkness below. When I stood up, I didn’t expect to see what I did.
There dangling from metal cuffs that were secured to a beam was Avery’s pale nude bloodied body. ‘Please, please don’t let her bo dead,” I thought before I linked to my brothers telling them to rush to the basement. I reached a shaky hand up to check for a pulse. “She is alive,” I said aloud. As I said that, my brothers flanked me.
“This is bad,” Conner remarked as he switched on the lights. “Who would do this to her? We only humiliated her. We never cut her and left her for dead.”
Cassius looks around. He lifts remnants of my shirt that are now soaked in Avery’s blood to his nose. Fury and disgust fill his eyes as he makes his hand into his dragon’s claw, slicing through the chains as if they were butter. I reach out and catch a lifeless Avery and carry her away from the mess of congealed blood. Cradling her my arms, I sit on the floor. She is so frail and tiny that I fear that I might break her.
My brothers came over. “We need to heal her the best that we can before we take her home and call a healer.” They both nodded as they joined me on the floor. We joined hands and allowed our dragons to have control. When our dragons work as one, they are capable of healing minor wounds. Our mother referred to our healing ability as The Power Of Three.
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Leaving only dried blood behind, her cuts began to heal. “We need to cover her up,” Cassius said as he pulled his shirt off and put it over Avery. We stood up in unison. Climbing five steps at a time, we made it to the hallway londing to the main hall. Once outside, we take flight. I think to myself that this must be Avery’s first flight If she can ever forgive me, I would like to show her the peace that snoring in the sky offers. When we land, I rush Avery to her roots and dress her while Cassius summons the tribe’s healer,
Enya.
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