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“Hi, right here,” I waved as I stood up and came into his line of sight. “I’ll go to Santary, I think we’ve done are
Riley immediately breathed a sigh of relief, his shoulders sagged with the weight off of them. I sort of felt bad for having stressed
Rhys stuck his arm out, forcing me to stop just before the door.
“How long age did you find out my mate was missing?” He demanded.
Riley immediately stiffened. I could practically feel his nerves set in.
“Rhys don’t be silly, I’m right here. I’m not missing.” I tried, but he ignored me.
“How. Long. Was. She. Missing?” He emphasized every word, even Michael was sitting straight up in the chair we had left him in.
“About 30 minutes, sir,” Riley finally answered. “We didn’t know if Sammy was a credible source, so we thought we’d check it out first before notifying
“Is there some issue with your mindlink?”
“N–No sir.”
“Well, if you had mindlinked me to let me know my mate was missing, I could have A. helped if it was actually true, or 3. told you the was in a meeting with me, and you wouldn’t have wasted 30 minutes looking for someone who wasn’t actually missing.”
Riley looked down, obviously ashamed of how he had handled the situation. “Yes, Sir.”
“From now on, someone is to know exactly where my mate is at all times, am I clear?”
“Yes, Sir,” Riley repeated.
“Good. Now, go figure out how you’re going to do that. We have to go get Sammy.”
Riley said one more “Yes, sir,” and scurried off to do what Rhys had just asked. Rhys was so dramatic sometimes, but I appreciated him caring about my safety. I just didn’t know if I really wanted someone to know where I was at all times. That felt a little terrifying to me.
“Well, let’s go get her,” Rhys said, running a hand through his hair. “Come on, Michael, you should be at training tou.”
I looked at Rhys curiously. “We? I can go get her, I don’t want to disrupt your day even more
“Nope. I’m keeping you in my sight right now because apparently you are missing.” There was a slight teasing in bis voice, but I ales knew he knew thed earlier. At least a little bit. “Plus, I’ve been meaning to come to training for the kids. I wanted to see what their bowlate looks like since it’s their first week.”
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He had mentioned he wanted to do that the other night, but I still didn’t believe him.
“Is it okay if I skip training today? I kinda just want to be alone right now.” Michael asked as we started down the hall.
“Alone where?” I asked, narrowing my eyes at him.
“Just upstairs,” He answered. “Today has just been a lot. And no one should be up there right now.”
I nodded at him. Did I truly think inviting him to stay with us forever was really going to outrank his dad when it came down to it? I wasn’t sure. It could go either way. And I understood that. It was hard to know where the right place was to place your loyalty, I had struggled with it for years. I was loyal to my family even if I hadn’t thought about it that way. I had done everything they asked and kept my mouth shut about the horrible things they were doing. I had served them to the best of my ability. And I still found it hard at times to go against them. There were still moments where knowing that eventually, when this war was over, my sister would be dead felt like it was too much. I mean, she was my blood. I had felt the same with Ethan before it was all a lie. Like I owed him loyalty for being of my blood. And I knew Michael would eventually face the same questions I had. He would choose whoever could keep his siblings safest. And I just hoped it would be us. But I’m not sure how he could think that when we couldn’t even keep ourselves safe right now.
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