CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - SECRETS

CONTINUATION.

DERON

Jacks words was like a wave of bees that buzzed around my head and prevented me from from concentrating on anything else apart from their presence.

I shook my head, looking at him with all manner of serious as I clamped down on my head with my hands.

“No… no…. no…” I muttered.

The thought of hope only for it to be crushed by the actual truth was already hurting enough.

I suddenly felt like the air in the room got thicker and was too dense for me to breathe it in.

“You can’t do that Jack she’s gone!” I told him, hoping that he was just talking out of grief. If Valerie was really out there then it means I had failed her twice, not only was I not there for her when she needed someone the most but I had also left her all alone in a world were she would be in a constant run from Hunters.

“I overheard my father talking with the Emeral last night!”

“What did they say?” I asked, curiosity burning in me.

“Valerie wasn’t killed. She’s alive! She must have escaped to the Lyca