Free Endless Night (Fate's Intent Book 3) by April Bowles Page A

this?”
    “Because we just kind of saved their pathetic lives from your explosive need to get in here.”
    “Really?”
    “Yes, it surprised me too but the General would like to see them alive.”
    “Fine.”
    He lowered himself to the floor in front of me and I reached for his head. I was able to catch it before it hit the floor and I let him down easy like I said I would.
    Now that that was over, I turned around to the three behind me and had my full attention right on Troy. “I’m so sorry about this.” I reached for him but he seemed different somehow and tried to lean away. “What’s the matter?”
    “What did you just do to them?”
    He seemed almost worried from asking and I didn’t waste time to set things straight. “Oh, no. They’re not dead. I just put them to sleep so they’re out of the way.”
    “I didn’t know you could do that.”
    “I only do it when I need to heal a traumatizing wound that would be better if the person were asleep so they stop feeling it and don’t go into shock. That’s a more complicated type of healing.”
    “Oh, in that case, nice job and you can touch me unless you plan on putting me to sleep because I really don’t need to do that right now.”
    “I wasn’t going to. I’m going to get you free.” I walked around him and untied the binds around his wrists.
    “Thanks.” He leaned forward and untied the ones around his ankles and I went to Darius.
    “Where’s Ruby?”
    “She’s still there. I didn’t have time to find them when I knew Trever knew you were here.”
    “He told you?” Troy asked.
    “Yes, he said—”
    “Wait!” I looked up and Trever was stepping over the door I blew down and stopped Troy from untying Zayden with just his voice.
    “What?” I asked.
    “Don’t untie him just yet.”
    “Why?” It seemed weird that he would say that since the other two were already fully untied but then I looked at Zayden. His eyes were black and Trever seemed focused on it.
    “Something is wrong.”
    Oh, no. Now I was getting worried.
    “Where’s Adele?”
    I tried focusing to answer his question. “Ah, she’s still at the palace.”
    “You didn’t bring her?”
    “You made it sound too urgent. I didn’t want to waste time looking for them when I could have done it myself.”
    He looked down at Kole and Ryon on the floor. “Yes. I see. Thank you. Now, go get Adele.”
    “Why?”
    “Because she might still be there looking for you and I’m sure you can imagine she’s not happy about it.”
    He was right, wasn’t he? Great. Why didn’t I just look for her first? Now she’s going to be mad at me. I just thought I had to get here quickly. Who knows what they really had planned? Whatever it was, I was glad I stopped it.
    I didn’t want to leave Troy again but I did know that I had to get Adele even if that meant going back there and looking like my dress had just caught on fire. Maybe no one would notice. It was a costume ball anyway. I could be a burning meadow instead of just a normal one.
    “It’s okay.” Troy said. He must have been watching my hesitation. “I’ll still be fine. Go find her.”
    I nodded and slowly started backing away. “Okay. If he bothers you or threatens to, I’d like for you to step in Darius and put him on the floor next to his friends.”
    “I absolutely will.”
    “I don’t think that will be necessary, Jay.” Trever said. “But thank you.”
    I was still nervous to leave but there was something wrong with Zayden. He hadn’t said a word and I needed to find Adele.

 
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 17
     
     
    Darius
     
    I was standing ready for him to say something threatening so I could act on Jaylyn’s request. I imagined getting to do it over and over in my head but he didn’t seem much bothered by what she said. At first maybe I thought it was because he was apparently one of Kalu’s secret fighters. I haven’t forgot about them mentioning that to us back in Randal then I thought maybe it