Descending Darkness(102)

“I’ve learned that I shouldn’t reveal my evil plan to you anymore. Someone always comes to thwart it,” he says right as the cell door opens.

A tall man with dark brown curly hair walks over to Dravin. He looks to be in his mid-to-upper forties, and he’s dressed in a long white lab coat. “I need a small sample of her blood before I can try anything. I need to see if I can separate anything from it,” he says while looking down at me. Something about him seems off. My stomach begins to turn the longer he looks at me. I’m not going to be sick, but my instincts are trying to tell me something.

“That’s fine,” Dravin says as he pushes a button on a machine next to me. A wire is attached to the bottom of it. My eyes follow it up the machine and around the chair to my arm, where it’s firmly attached by a needle embedded in my skin.

“What’s that?” I whisper as my eyelids start to feel extremely heavy, and the pain in my body recedes.

I’m floating.

“Dormirako. It’s the only way we can allow you to have your magic without the risk of attack,” the mysterious doctor explains. My head rolls across the back of the chair as sleep beckons me again.

Dravin won.





Chapter Thirty




Colton

“I say we go on with the plan,” Tom says.

“Are you insane?” I shout. “Dravin has her again! I’m not leaving her there.”

“Colton, we need to go on with the plan. If we don’t have anyone to help us, we won’t be able to get her back at all. Magic or no magic,” Tom explains.

“Tom, Ryanne is the unifying factor. None of this would be happening if it weren’t for her!” The car is still on fire in the background, but I don’t care. I care about Ryanne, and I want her back. “And right now she’s in the hands of the man who has harmed her more times than I can count, and if you think that I’m just going to go to someone’s house and ask them to help, without trying to find her first myself, you’ve got another thing coming.”

Liam, who is standing between Conner and Bragden to my left, suddenly gasps. We all turn our attention to him. He’s the only connection we have to Ryanne. His eyes roll into the back of his head as he falls to the ground. Natalie runs over to him and falls to the ground beside him. She turns his head toward her, but nothing happens. Resting her ear against his chest, she checks for a heartbeat.

“He’s in a dream, Natalie,” I say. “Hopefully seeing Ryanne.”

“So, what do we do now?” Emma asks. “There’s too many of us to fit into one car. I don’t think any of you guys want to sit in another guy’s lap, and half of us are in no position to walk long distances. Logan can’t heal, and Larkin shouldn’t be transporting, so…what now?”

“I guess we could call the Howicks since we’re not far from their house and see if they can bring us to the hotel,” Tom says. “I know you want to find Ryanne, Colton, but Larkin’s the only one that can get you there, and he’s injured. So right now, you’ll have to wait.”

I can’t wait. That’s the problem. I feel my magic calling me as I suddenly become invisible. Tom frowns but doesn’t say anything as he takes out his phone and calls the Howicks. I don’t bother trying to calm myself. “If they hurt her…” I mumble as Emma walks over to my general vicinity.

“Colton, we’ll find her. We’ll get her back,” she says as she sits down next to me; she’s pretty close for me being invisible. “You know it’s kind of hard to help when I can’t see you.”

My soulmate needs me, and I won’t be able to accomplish anything if I’m in this state. I think about how proud I was earlier when Ryanne defended me. I think about the way her eyes light up when she smiles, and how the left dimple on her cheek is more pronounced than the right. My whole body starts to vibrate. I think about how she looks when she first wakes up in the morning. She’s too beautiful for her own good with her hair going everywhere and her sleep laden eyes. I think about the goofy grin she gets on her face when she watches any comic book movie. She’s unaware she does that.

“Much better,” she says. “Look, Ryanne’s strong. She’ll be fine. She’s good at stalling; you know that. We need to regroup and formulate a plan. We may need more people, and we need to know what Liam is seeing.”

I guess that’s true. Taking a deep breath, I try to keep my magic down. I won’t be of any help if I can’t keep myself visible. Tom walks over to us. “The Howicks are coming to get us. I’ll drive everyone who’s injured, and the rest of you can go with them. We’re going to need to get everyone cleaned up since Logan’s in no shape to heal anyone at the moment.”