Page 56 of Splitting Secrets
“So, what happens next? You seem to have it all planned out and don’t want to give us any autonomy over the situation,” Beatrix mutters bitterly. When I turn back toward her, I see that she’s plastered on the fakest smile she can muster.
She’s just as irritated by all of this as I am.
“I know it feels like you’ve traded one prison for another, but a lot of careful planning has gone into your arrival. We want tomake sure that all of you are as safe as possible,” Theo tries to say before Quinn interjects.
“What happens next is that you’ll all be taken to a safe house on the outer edge of Nocturne Valley,” she explains in the same cold tone she had before.
“We won’t be in the cabin anymore?” Ava squeaks. If I didn’t know better, I’d think she was disappointed by that.
Quinn shakes her head, lips pinched once again. “It’s too close to the university. We need to have you somewhere that we can take you right out of town if anything goes sideways.”
“Will we get to stay together?”
“Do you want to?”
The four of us nod in unison. As much as I’ve always loved my alone time, I’m terrified of being separated from them.
“Then, yes.”
“What’s the point of doing all of this? You could have easily let us starve in those cells,” Jonah voices the question we’ve all had in the back of our minds.
Whydo they care so much?
“Aside from the fact that Raze asked us to?” Quinn begins, turning to stare directly at me as she speaks. “It’s come to our attention that Sonny is an invaluable asset that we can’t let the Syndicate destroy.”
“What is that supposed to mean?” I ask.
Quinn raises a withering brow at me. “You knew you were a Landry descendant, did you not? Or did Divina manage to fumble that as well?”
I shrink in my seat. “Well, yes, I knew.” Not because of Divina, but for some reason I don’t want to admit that and fuel her hatred toward my aunt.
She widens her eyes, shaking her head like I’m the densest person she’s had the displeasure of speaking to. “Then you’reaware that you possess all powers of all gifted bloodlines—save for Mirrane.”
Ava gasps, Jonah and Beatrix look at each other with their mouths wide open, and Theo laughs. Helaughs, as if this is all such happy news.
“No,” I mumble, dropping my gaze to the table. Tracing the wood grain, I try to organize my jumbled thoughts and piece together the facts to figure out how they reached that conclusion so confidently.
There’s just no way that what she’s saying is true.
“I’m afraid so,” Quinn sighs.
“This is incredible,” Ava shouts, turning in her chair to grab my shoulders. “It explains so much, Sonny.”
“Does it?”
“Yes! The lights, the woods, the thoughts...God, who knows what else?” she muses, her eyes bright with excitement for the first time in weeks.
Jonah turns back toward Quinn. “Is this why they’re trying to kill her?”
“Why would they want to kill her over that? The power she has would be an asset to them, wouldn’t it?” Beatrix guesses, turning her gaze to the older woman as well.
“They fear what they can’t control.”
I eye her suspiciously as I carefully say, “That’s why they got rid of the Mirranes.”
She shrugs. “Something like that.”
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