AJ's POV—
I stumble back lightly, feeling as if Lo just punched me in the gut. This—apparently—draws the rest of the group over.
Indie frowned at the expression on Lo's face. "What's wrong?" she asked.
Lo begins to tell her the story, about Lena being captured and going to be killed if she doesn't tell them about the gang, the quest, and everything else.
"Oh gods," Arianna says, resting her hand on the hilt of her dagger, which is shoved down into her boot.
"Well..." Al says. "I think she should confess."
"I do, too." Kat says lightly, looking down.
"What?" Lo asks harshly. "They'll probably kill her anyways!"
"But you said they'll kill her if she doesn't tell!" he shouts back.
"Boys!" Arianna yells, pulling apart from what was about to become a fist-fight. "Let's just focus on the important matter here—getting Lena out from the camp."
"Yeah," I say, smoothing out the front of my shirt. "I think she should keep it a secret."
If looks could kill, Lo would've become a murderer just now.
"What would you do if they had Indie captured and were about to kill her?" Lo mused at Cole. Then he turned to me. "Or if they had Emma?"
"That's a completely different topic," Cole said, and I am so happy he didn't do a death glare—no telling what would happen.
"No, it's no different at all." Lo said.
"Guys..." Indie said. "We need to save her—but we can't risk letting the Titan's know what we're up to."
"We have to save her." Lo said, his voice breaking.
"Yeah," Kat said. "We can't just give up on her. "We can't give up on her like this."
Just as the silence was about to become awkward, Al said, "Once Emma gets out, we can go find Lena."
"Lena will be dead by then!" Lo says.
"She probably won't, Lo." Indie said, resting her hand on his shoulder. "They need her for leverage."
"Just like Katie Beth..." I whisper, not thinking anyone can hear me.
"Exactly," Indie said. "They won't kill Lena until they get what they want from her and us. There's no doubt that she'll go through serious pain. But we'll get her Lo. I promise."
I am so, so sorry for taking so long to update this! The holiday's have been here, I've been excited a lot lately, family's been up, ugh! I'm going to get back into the writing feeling, though, I swear on the River Styx! In fact, I'm working on another chapter for another one of my stories while typing this authors note right now (this has been in my doc manager for about two weeks .-.).