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Robert looks up atas | enter the room. His eyes softend a mile huser pet to
“You
“You look just like your mother,” he says, hits voice thick with emotion
“Don’t speak of my mother,” | snap and Robert finches, ing up a little straighter
“I'm sorry,” he whispers
| study him for a moment. He looks weak like this, his eyeste welled with unsheathed tears and the tremble a
little. Is he scared of me? | take a seat opposite
“When was the last tyou spoke with any of your family Task
“A couple of weeks ago. | am only allowed one phone call a month and one visit every three months, Emma sed
she would try to contact you, | assshe found you and that is why you are here?” He says.
“She did find me, but that is not why | am here. | am here because my daughter has been taken by what was left
of Cornelius followers, and Emma believes you may be able to help find her,” | tell him, and his fists clench on
the
table.
“How old is she?” He asks.
“Are you asking because it’s relevant to her being taken, or because you think that, as a blood relative, you have
skind of right to know?” | raise a brow
“Because it is relevant, and because she is my granddaughter, and whilst | don’t think | have a right to know, |
am interested,” he admits.
“Fair enough, she is sixteen, coming up to seventeen”
“She was the child you were carrying when | last saw you,” he nods to himself.
“When did you see me?” | frown, trying to remember a tI've ever seen this man before.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt“The day you won, in the park. You were in a mental battle with Cornelius and one of your bonds. Another was
trying to protect you, but one of mine had him pinned. | pulled my guy off of him and ported him away. When |
cback, you were passed out and then this one cand took you away before | could check on you,” he
gestures to Luke.
“Oh, he is talking about me. | was about to get my head bitten off when the wolf on top ofsuddenly
disappeared. | didn’t have tto stop and question it, but it makes sense now,” Theo says into the mind link.
“Why did you help us? We were on opposite sides,” | ask
“You're my daughter. | was always going to be on your side. | was so proud of you that day,” he smiles.
| don’t speak for a moment whilst | process his words. | want to believe him. | want to find out I'd been so wrong.
about him, but at the stime, | still want to hate him.
“Well, none of that matters right now. What matters is finding my daughter. Can you help or not?”
“It depends,” he says, looking towards the glass behindnervously, “Who do you have behind that glass?” He
asks.
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“Why?” | scowl at him.
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“Because I'm not sure who we can trust,” he admits.
“I trust every person behind that glass with my life.”
“Okay. | want to help, but the people in here know | defected, they know | switched sides that day, and they call
find them, but if they know who | am, they'll killon sight,” he explains.
I lean back in my seat, absorbing the weight of his words.
“That doesn’t mean I'm not willing to try. | am not scared of dying, especially if it is whilst trying to protect my
family. | just don’t want to give you false hope that | can just walk back in there and find her without issue, as
much as | wish that was true.”
“How do | know you can be trusted? What assurance can you givethat you won't rejoin their faction as soon
as you find them?” | ask.
“Have your bond compel me. I've heard he’s very strong,” Robert smiles.
“How do you know?” | frown.
“We knew everything about you. I just didn’t know it was you until | saw you. We were never given your names,
but we were told you were a spark-bonded group of six, and we were told your abilities. You are an impressive
group, very resilient and extremely gifted. You certainly put Cornelius‘ bond group to shame.”
“Did you know Cornelius was spark bonded too?” | ask.
“Yes, that’s how he got such a loyal following. The spark bond is supposed to be our saviours. Why wouldn't we
believe his path was the right one?” He asks.
“So what made you change your mind about his cause?”
“Apart from my daughter leading the opposition? | never fully understood how his plans were going to benefit our
kind apart from giving the current unbonded a chance at a family. When we found out the opposition was also
spark bonded, it raised squestions. How could two spark-bonded groups both be right? Comelius told us
about his flashbacks, and that he knew where he had gone wrong in his past lives. He said his group had got it
right this tand would be rewarded with cycling together from now on,” he explains.
“What do you mean?
“He said he and his group had flashbacks to their previous lives together. They were shown moments where their
past selves had made mistakes so that they could make sure they didn’t make the smistakes this time
around. Do you have those flashbacks?” He asks.
“No,” | shake my head.
“Maybe you didn’t make any mistakes then,” Robert smiles. “He said whoever within the group made the
mistake in the previous life didn’t reincarnate with the rest of the group on their next life cycle and were forced
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmto live a solitary life cycle as an unbonded before they were given another chance the next taround.”
“How did he know about this?” Luke asks, givingan apologetic look for joining the conversation without me
asking him. | give him a reassuring smile. | don’t mind, this is important stuff about our whole group, not just me.
“He had a book, a journal of sorts that had been passed down through spark-bonded groups. He was given it by
the Elders. He was supposed to pass it to your group when you bonded, but for obvious reasons that didn’t
happen.”
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Tension flows through our group. Not only were the elders aware of Cornelius, but they also knew there was this
journal that was rightfully ours and they had said nothing, taking their secrets to their grave. | want that journal,
| want to see what my past self wrote in it.
“Do you know where the journal is?” | ask Robert.
“I know where it was, | can take you there and there might be sclues as to your daughter's whereabouts
there too. Comelius kept a lot of records and unless someone went back to clear out his stuff, it should all still be
there.”
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