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Me: Okay…. I'm okay. I will not freak out, I will not freak out….
Conscience: Wait for it….
Me: WAAHHH!!!! WHY!?!
Conscience: hee hee, still in denial
Chapter 10
I looked up as the cell door clanged shut. A new girl stood in the cell, her hair a blazing red. She glanced around at us warily, her hands clenched into fists at her side. He eyes sparked in warning, threatening to kill whoever came within ten feet of her. Whoever this chick was, she wasn't someone to be messed with. I liked her.
Just then, she saw Thierry.
"Lord Thierry?" she asked cautiously.
Thierry smiled gently at her.
"Hello Maggie, what brings you here?" he asked politely, as if she was just dropping by for tea and not being held against her will.
The girl, Maggie, frowned.
"I was at the safe house with Delos, talking with Jez and Morgead. Suddenly, I had this urge to go outside and get some air. When I went out the door, someone- something knocked me out and somehow I got here....." Her voice trailed off and she looked around at the three of us, her eyebrows raised.
"Same thing happened to me," Mare piped up. "Except for the whole safe house and Delos, Jez, and Morgead thing. I don't know who those guys are."
"Join the club," I muttered.
Maggie looked at us, suspicion rising on her face again.
Thierry must have noted this too because he introduced us quickly.
"Maggie, this is Mary-Lynette, Ash's soulmate, and Media, Amaranth's soulmate. They've been captured also."
Maggie nodded, still not seeming totally convinced.
"Anyways, we're not going to be sticking around for too much longer," I broke in.
"What? How? Why?" Maggie demanded, turning to me almost reluctantly.
"Well, for one thing, the longer we stay here, the more our soulmates are going to be looking for us," I explained lightly. "And, of course, that would be bad."
"Why is that bad?" the girl asked, still not totally getting the situation.
"Because we're being held by a dragon," Thierry murmured.
Maggie's eyes widened.
* * *
Amaranth kept his eyes fixed on the road in front of him as he drove at breakneck speed down the winding roads of South America. He could see Ash's bright red Hummer swinging violently around the sharp turns. Beside Amaranth, Hannah winced as they made yet another sharp turn without slowing down, but she didn't say a word.
Hannah wasn't supposed to have come on the mission; in fact, she was supposed to have stayed back at the headquarters in Las Vegas surrounded by guards. But, of course, she had thought differently. There was no way she was going to sit behind while Thierry was in danger. No freaking way.
She glanced at Amaranth for what felt like the thousandth time since they had left the airport. Out of all of them, Amaranth seemed the most upset by his soulmate's predicament. Even Ash, who also hadn't seen his soulmate in a long time, wasn't quite as furious and alarmed as Amaranth. Maybe that was because Amaranth hadn't seen his soulmate in almost two years, and when he had last seen her she'd told him to go away.
Hannah winced, remembering the time when she had told Thierry to go away. Stupidest thing she'd ever done in all of her lives. She hadn't lasted two days without having to go and look for Thierry, what could possibly make Amaranth's soulmate wait for two years?
Well, Hannah thought wryly. Whatever the reason, she was going to regret it now.
Her cellphone rang, calling her back to the real world. Hannah flipped the cell phone open almost absently.
"Yes?" she asked expectantly.
Thea's voice crackled over the phone's bad connection.
"We've found it."