Filed to story: Sinful Mates (Imogen) Book by Jessica Hall
I head toward the elevator and press the button to the top floor. Waiting, I start to become anxious. Then, I feel it’s not me, it is actually Tobias and Theo. I feel Tobias getting angry, then the elevator doors open. Everyone is standing next to my desk, staring at me like I just grew two heads.
“See, I told you she would be back,” says Theo to Tobias, pointing at me.
I step out with coffees and my muffin. “Everything okay?” I ask.
“Yes, Tobias is being a dick, thinking I let you run away,” Theo says, walking over and kissing my temple before picking up a coffee.
He takes a sip and nearly spits it out when he realizes he grabbed mine, which has more sugar than he likes. I place the cardboard trays on the desk and grab my coffee off him before handing him his and shake my head. I give Josiah his, “Black, like your soul,” I tell him. His lips turn up slightly and he thanks me while I give everyone their coffees.
“We will be leaving soon, so make sure you are ready, dear,” Caroline tells me. I nod suddenly feeling nervous.
“Nothing will happen, not today anyway. Josiah is just taking you to meet them, and the council has ordered some tests, you may also have to meet the oracle.”
“Oracle?”
“Just a fancy word for, I suppose… a fortune teller, nothing to worry about. She will just look into your past and maybe your future, it’s just precautionary to make sure you won’t speak of what you see when we arrive.”
I nod my head and take a bite of my muffin.
“Well, your father and I are going to head off, we will meet you there,” she says softly to Theo, before touching my shoulder and rubbing her thumb over my cheek. “Nothing to worry about dear, I promise,” she says, before walking to the elevator with Josiah.
I
‘m sitting at my desk when Theo walks out of his office and Tobias steps out of his a second later. I stand up, knowing it is time to leave.
“Ready?” Tobias asks.
“As ready as I’ll ever be,” I say, grabbing my handbag from under my desk and throwing it over my shoulder.
We make our way to Tobias’ car. As soon as the car starts, I know there will be no turning back, the seatbelt suddenly feels more like a restraint as we leave the city to meet the people that will decide when I die.
The drive takes about forty-five minutes. Tobias pulls the car over on what appears to be an abandoned school in literally the most deserted place, hidden amongst the trees. We get out of the car and I look around. It is an old school building, with trees going through it, the roof has caved in and the place looks desolate. Like it hadn’t been a functioning school in hundreds of years. No signage, no nothing.
“Are we at the right place?” I ask, looking around confused.
There are broken swings in the distance and the gate out front is rusted. Tobias and Theo nod before walking through the gate and suddenly, vanishing into thin air. I stop, shocked. Where did they go? Then, suddenly Theo’s hand comes out, waving at me on my side of the gate, his body invisible. I take a step back; I must be tripping what the hell was in that coffee?
Suddenly, Theo steps back into view, my heart skips a beat as he materializes in front of me.
“Come on,” he says, holding out his hand.
I nervously take it and he pulls me through the gate. I can hear a high pitched whistling, and have to fight the urge to block my ears then suddenly, a feeling like I’m being sucked through a vacuum, before finally feeling air again. I suck in a deep breath. What I’m not expecting when I look around is the sight of the huge mansion in front of me, that can’t be the school I just saw.
I turn around and look back at the gate, I just walked through which is no longer there. I can see the car and the dirt road, but the abandoned school is gone. I take a step back and bump into Tobias.
I look up at him and he smiles. “Cool huh?” I nod, not really knowing what to say. I look around, the place is huge as we walk up the grand steps towards the huge archway in place of a door.
“How?” I ask, not understanding how this place is so hidden from the world.
“Witches put wards up, to humans and anyone else it just appears as an abandoned building, anyone who walks past the gates just feel uncomfortable and don’t understand why. It’s for protection, to stop anyone from discovering this place. There are many around the city as well.” Tobias explains.
Theo walks over to the door and bangs on it. A man or should I say strange looking goblin/elf thing walks out, a snarl on his face. He looks at me then at Theo, his face lighting up excitedly.
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