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As it turned out, we didn’t need to wait long to find out Barely ten minutes passed since we had coeon She stopped outside our cell and glared at the two of us

The door to our cell clicked and swung open

"I suggest you don’t try anything," she said "Just followa run for it as we eripped et nowhere with this witch Atte escape would only make matters worse Annora reached out and touched our arms We vanished from the spot and reappeared in a corridor, outside a door When I glanced out of a , it appeared ere on one of the highest floors of the castle

She pushed the door open and we entered a co the hallway and through a number of rooms We stopped once we reached a study

Derek and I stood by the entrance, watching as she made her way to a table in a corner She drew up a chair and sat down

"What do you ith us?" I asked, fighting to steady erously low, "to teach you a lesson for wandering around without my authority"

Derek and I barely had ti pain exploded in the base of hout my nervous system I collapsed, and Derek landed next to ony blinded th to openMy brain felt like it was on fire, as though it ony lasted, I prayed that Anna’s fate hadn’t been as painful

Chapter 20: Ben

Rose’s disappearance sent treht and still hadn’t returned by the hthouse again But she wasn’t there

Griffin had no idea where she was He’d claiht Nobody had seen her--it turned out that I’d been the last one to lay eyes on her

I could only assume that she had sneaked onto the sub of her sudden departure, the way she’d lied topointed to this

Of course, Corrine was hysterical I cursedthe island without s had been uncomfortable before, they were now ten ti water, slowly boiling alive fro in a blur I was unable to concentrate on anything I ended up pacing up and down along the shores of the island, looking out to sea as if I would see the shadow of their submarines beneath the water But I never did

I returned to Corrine’s cha at the table with her head in her hands, poring over a large black book She looked up as I entered and sla her tre my question, she stood up and shoved the book into her bookcase "What’s that?"

Her bottoht she was about to answer my question, but then she shook her head I walked over to her and clutched her shoulders She brushed me away "I need some rest, Ben Leave lare at her before acquiescing

Without bothering to ask permission, I shut myself in the spare bedroohts, but I didn’t want to return to the penthouse that evening I wanted to keep an eye on the witch Sohtest chance that whatever she was hiding fro to get to the bottom of it