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CHAPTER 10

Brielle

I woke up on a cold hard dirt ground, a sharp object poking into my lower back. I knew almost instantly that I was not waking up from a normal sleep. I must have been knocked out cold. I could feel rather then see bruises on my wrists, legs, and neck. Get your butt into gear, gurl, you need to move! My whole body felt sluggish; slow to the orders I was giving it. My brain felt like sludge; I couldn't even muster the strength to open up my heavy eyelids. Letting out a muffled groan, I tried to kick my brain into gear and remember where I was and what I was doing here. My eyes cracked open slightly and then quickly shut again as bright rays of sunlight gleamed down on me. Ok maybe I'll just lay here for a while. I managed to move about an inch, the sharp object no longer jabbing me in the back. Lifting my head up, I opened my eyes, squinting, and did a brief examine of myself from head to toe. I could feel about a dozen leaves in my hair; and just as many poking into my clothes, the bruises that I could feel were there looked twice the size of what I expected them to be; scattered across my arms and legs with all the colors of the rainbow. My fingers skimmed over my neck finding another bruise, this one more painful. I winced at the burning pain. Laying back down I closed my eyes again.

Wait a second.

I shot up into a sitting position, shaking myself out of its unconscious state. I looked around desperately to find I was in the middle of a forest. Putting the pieces together I knew I couldn't have been in Mystic; there weren't any trees within miles from where I live. Lived. Everything came back to me in a flood of memories; moving to America, finding out I was a savant, learning my parents wanted me dead, and discovering my soulfinder. Soulfinder. A happy smile spread across my face, despite everything else going on as an image of Jasper flashed through my head, all tousled hair, bright eyed, and smiling.

Ok. Time to think. What time is it? Where is the sun situated in the sky? My inner girl scout surged into existence after being gone for so long. The sun was straight above me. Noon. I stood up, but fell back to the ground again as my head started spinning and grey dots formed in front of my eyes. I put my head between my knees to relieve me from the headache that now pounded behind my eyes. After sitting there for a few seconds I sat up straight again. My stomach made a noise that sounded more like the mating call of a whale then a normal growl. Wow was I hungry; and thirsty too. It felt like days since I had had a sip of water or any food. Mentally pulling myself together before I could have a break down, I stood up again. Slowly. I silently did a little jump for joy when I didn't fall down for a second time.

I did another check of my surroundings, looking for anything that could hint at a village, or town nearby, but there were only trees for what looked like miles in every direction. I picked what looked like a man made path, through the leaves and decided to follow it. Taking a step forward, a twinge of pain that felt like a bullet shot into my uterus and between my legs. The pain was unbearable, and I couldn't help but let out a cry of agony. Doubling over I pressed my hands over my lower stomach trying to ease the pain.

- "This is what happens to bitches like you who don't behave. I don't expect Jasper will be too happy with me so I'll make sure to dump you in the middle of no where after I'm finished with you." A horrible sick grin spreading from ear to ear, he tapped out a tune on his steering wheel. I didn't need a gift for emotions to know that Pete was enjoying getting Jasper back for 'stealing his girl'.

I wanted to shout for help. I wanted to scream, but I couldn't. As soon as I had been stuffed in his car, he had tied up my hands and legs and shoved a gag in my mouth that almost made me suffocate.

"Please...help me." I sent out a telepathic distress call to Jasper, but again it fizzled into nothing.

"I know you're wondering why none of your messages are going through to Jasper. I'm a savant too, darlin. I'm surprised Jasper didn't pick that up when we first met, but then again he probably couldn't. I can block other peoples gifts."

I let out a gasp only to cause myself a lot of coughing when the gag came further back into my mouth, dangerously close to blocking my throat. Pete had just given away that he was a savant, and the answer as to why Jasper hadn't got my messages.

Checking his mirror, Pete caught a glance of my face. "Don't look so shocked, babe. There are more of us around then you would know." With that said he pulled the car to a halt in a dark alleyway. If I hadn't already been terrified I would have very quickly become it. Pete climbed over the front seat into the back where I was curled up against the car door.

"I won't hurt you. I promise." The wretch had a smug look on his face that I would have punched away if I hadn't been tied up.

Shuffling closer to me he put his hand on my upper thigh and gripped it painfully. So much for his promises. I knew what was about to happen would most likely haunt me for the rest of my life, maybe even drive me away from my soulfinder. The one thing that I had been saving for the man I would marry was about to become history. Tears started pouring down my cheeks unchecked. No, no, no, no, no. This couldn't be happening, but it was happening and there was nothing I could do to stop it. -

The sudden flashback knocked all the air out of my lungs. The torturous memories of last night so raw in my mind. I fell to my knees sobbing; I had been raped.

Jasper

We lost them. We freaking lost them! I felt like screaming. We had driven around aimlessly for half the night in a hope to track down Brielle, but the car she was in had been gone from our sight long ago. We had been pulled over on the side of the road for half an hour; me trying to get a grip on things, and Uriel communicating telepathically with the rest of Brielle's rescue team. Failed rescue team. I kicked myself for not being able to do the one thing every boyfriend was supposed to be able to do; keep his girl safe. In this case, my soulfinder.

"Hand me your phone please Jasper." Uriel cut through my train of thought. I tossed him my phone, feeling as though there was nothing else I could do.

Uriel speed dialed a number and put it on speaker phone.

"911, what is your emergency?" The recipient answered.

"Abduction." Uriel kept his voice steady, keeping it together for the both of us.

I gazed out the window, as a car pulled up behind us with a seriously angry Victor at the wheel. Victor hated losing, and something about the way he was acting made it look like that's what had happened. We had lost, and I wouldn't be able to reach Brielle in time to save her. He stepped out of the car and kicked at the front tire. I watched as my dad got out of the car and grabbed Victor by the shoulders and spoke in an urgent tone; what he was saying, I couldn't make out.

I slouched back into my seat, a stray angry tear rolled down my cheek. I kept a neutral facial expression but inside I was tearing up, screaming. I had failed at the one thing I was expected to do; protect my soulfinder.

Dad tapped on the window, and I quickly swiped at my eyes. There was no way he would see that I had been crying; I wouldn't allow it. No one cried in my family- except for the girls, but the men in my family had all been taught to keep their emotions in check and be the ones to comfort; not to be comforted. I took a deep breath and opened the door of the truck; Brielle's truck. Get your ass into gear. You will not cry in front of your dad or Victor. I growled at the daunted, tired face staring back at me from the side mirror.

"She's gone." All hopes of not crying in public rocketed out of reach as more angry tears rushed down my cheeks. "It's all my fault."

I sank to the ground, suddenly all the events of today catching up with me and leaving me weak at the knees. My head in my hands, I rocked back and forth, much like I used to do when I was a little boy. "What have I done."

I didn't dare look up at my cousins or dad who no doubt would be judging me profusely and readying themselves to give me, yet again, another lecture, but instead they just stood there. They let me cry, and I wasn't sure if that's what I wanted. Pull yourself together. You shouldn't be the one crying! Brielle is out there and you need to do everything you can to get her back.

I stood up, mustering all the manliness I could to face the four men standing in front of me.

"Sorry." I frowned and rubbed my head; a headache forming behind my left eye. Without warning, I fell back to the ground and blacked out.

–-

"He's waking up." I could hear girls light voice as my eyelids fluttered open. A cool, petite hand slipped into mine. "Brielle?" I murmured quietly.

"It's me Jasper. It's Sky." She sounded a bit upset. I hated seeing Sky upset. Since Zed had found his soulfinder she and I had become quite close. She was like a sister to me.

"Sky? What are you doing here? Where's Zed?" I knew Zed would be close by if Sky were here. He never let her out of his sight if he could help it.

"You're in Wrickenridge, Jasper. Zed's in the kitchen making coffee." I scooched into a sitting position, and looked around me. Sure enough I was in my cousins house in Wrickkenridge lying on their sofa. Sky leaned over and gave me a hug. "We were all so worried about you."

I felt like a stampede of Elephants had trampled through my head, making it turn to mud, but my mind quickly gathered the information together and everything came back to me in an instant. Brielle. If I was in Wrickenridge that meant I was no where near where Brielle had been taken, and possibly even further away, lessening my chances to save her. "Why am I here? Where is everyone?"

"Victor, Uriel and Will have spread out and gone looking for Brielle, Dad and Uncle James have taken our mothers shopping, god help them, to keep them from busying themselves over yours and Brielle's situation, Trace, Xav and Crystal have been spending most of the day talking to the police, and Yves and Reagan have been upstairs for the last three hours hacking into this Pete guys phone trying to get into his satnav and find out where he took her." Zed appeared around the corner of the kitchen and walked into the living room with two cups of coffee; he handed one to Sky with a kiss on the cheek, and then one to me.

"What, don't I get a kiss?" I said with a cheeky grin on my face, turning my cheek towards Zed as if waiting for a kiss as well, producing an unladylike snort from Sky.

Zed leaned over mockingly, lips pursed, but I shoved him away, spilling my coffee as I did.

"Now look what you made me do." Taylor Swifts song 'Look What You Made Me Do' getting stuck in my head. I pretended to groan, and made to get up, but Sky was onto me pronto, putting a had on my shoulder and pushing me back onto the couch.

"Stay." She gave me warning look as she walked off to the laundry to get a cloth to clean up the mess I made.

"Geez, Sky's so bossy."

"I heard that, Black!" I grinned when I heard Sky's mock severe reply. Zed was trying to hold in his laughter, but failed miserably when Sky added, "I get it from Victor!"

"What do you get from me, Sky?" Zed and I were still howling with laughter when Victor walked in, catching the tail end of our conversation, with an amused smile on his face.

"OH! Victor, I didn't realize you would be back so early!" Sky looked slightly embarrassed, her cheeks turning a bright pink, as she returned with a cloth to mop up the spilled coffee.

"I am deeply hurt that you think I'm bossy." Victor tried to look hurt but was defeated by letting slip a rumble of laughter as Sky hurried to try and explain herself.

"Don't worry, he'll get over it." Xav bounded up behind them and tweaked the end of Sky's plait with a wink.

"Hands off my girl, Xav." Zed growled and started wrestling Xav to the floor. Victor rolled his eyes at his brothers play fighting. He gave Sky a quick 'hello' hug and then made his way over to me, his expression dimming.

"Anything on Brielle?" I asked hopefully, putting my empty coffee cup aside.

"Not yet. You may be wondering why we are here and not back in Mystic, and to answer that, Zed had a premonition. He couldn't share it all with us because we might be the reason it comes true if he does. All we know is that Zed saw Brielle turn up in a forest. He recognized it as the one close to the ski lodge here but he doesn't know when she will turn up there." The news that Brielle would be dumped in a forest in Wrickenridge was enough to make me feel sick. "We can't say whether or not she was harmed before she turned up there, but he said that reaching out to her, through telepathy might cause more damage to her situation." Damn this was not what I had planned to happen. First date and we get shot at, Brielle runs away, gets kidnapped by my school mate – ex school mate – and somehow turns up in a forest.

"Shit. So how can I help her? You must realize that I'm not just going to sit here and do nothing, drinking coffees, while she's in a living hell!?" I was distraught. I just wanted Brielle to feel safe, that had been my number one goal since discovering our link, and now...

"Yes, I realized that, but if we do anything, it might change the premonition. Zed said that from what he saw, she hadn't been harmed. So by doing something not according to plan, it could change that for her completely." I knew this, but I felt so useless sitting here waiting for Pete to make his next move. I hated that while I sat here and did nothing, Brielle was out there needing my help. "The best thing for you to do is rest. We can't have you blacking out again because you're too tired." I made to disagree but was cut of by a squeal from Sky as Xav scooped her up over his shoulder and ran out of the house with Zed hot on his heels.

"Hey cupcake! Stop teasing your brother and Sky!" A laughing Crystal walked in with a very pregnant Diamond leaning on one arm and a worried looking Trace holding onto Diamond's other arm. "I agree with Victor, you need to get some rest so you can be fully recovered to save your girl." I could feel Diamond pushing her peace making power smoothly over me, insisting that I take the rest of the day off from worrying. Trace let out an exaggerated sigh on hearing these words of resting coming from his nearly due wife. "You're the one who should be resting!" He picked up Diamond in a bride like fashion, which gained much more laughter from Crystal as her older sister sighed with pleasure, walked over to the couch I was sitting on and laid her down next to me.

"You take such good care of me, husband." Diamond cupped Trace's face in her small hands with a loving smile on her face. "Anything for you, wife." Trace smiled at her. They held each others gaze for a moment, but were soon interrupted by Xav running inside with Sky still over his shoulder, out of breath from laughing. He put her down as Zed ran through the door, and ran over to Crystal trying to hide himself behind her.

"Yeah that's right, you better hide!" Zed scooped up Sky and landed a kiss on her mouth, their affection for each other showing perfectly. All this family banter, and noise was helping me to calm down a bit after Victor's news.

"Jasper come join us for a game of pool." Phoenix appeared down the stairs and with Yves and Reagan. "I'm making the boys take a break from all that nerd stuff." Yves whispered something in her ear that made her cheeks go a deep shade of pink. She poked him in the ribs, "Yves Benedict! Not now!" No one needed to hear what Yves had said to know what he wanted from her.

Phoenix passed by Sky and Zed and held out a hand to me. I took it and she pulled me up. She was one strong chick. Having lived most of her life on the streets she had become quite strong having to be able to protect herself if anyone came at her.

"Oooh I'll play!" Sky whizzed over to me and took my arm. Zed growled at her and put on a pouting face.

"Give it up Sky. We all know you're a cheater in the game." Xav was still having a go at teasing her, enjoying how his brother got all riled up.

"Just because you suck at it." Sky pointed it out, and everyone agreed.

"Awww come on Beauty, back me up here!" Xav turned to Crystal who just shrugged at him, not wanting to agree or disagree. "You're all so mean, I hope you know that." Swooping up Crystal in his arms he carried her over to the games room.

"What is it with the guys in this family feeling the need to carry their girls around. We have legs!" Sky stated only to be scooped up from behind by Zed.

"Admit it. You love it when I show my macho-ness and carry you around." Tickling Sky to try and make her come clean about it, Zed kissed the top off her head.

I sighed and headed over to the games room where all the couples were gathering, minus Trace and Diamond, who were under strict orders from Atoosa, Victors soulfinder, to rest, because, as she put it, they would not have any time left to themselves to rest when the baby comes. Seeing all my cousins with their soulfinders, just made me miss Brielle more. How I desperately wanted to introduce her to everyone, but right now all I could do was pray that she wouldn't be harmed.