Betrayal (Vanish Book Two) by Sonny Daise Page A

Alliance is coming.”
    “We already thought they were after us,
remember? And I’m sorry if I forgot to mention it with everything
else going on.”
    “You’re safe as long as you’re here,” he
assured. It sounded more like he was trying to convince himself
rather than me.
    “I don’t know that, Skylar came here without
a problem, and as long as I’m here no one is safe,” I
protested.
    “Are you insane? You can’t leave—“
    “I have to. I don’t know what’s going to
happen tomorrow, and I need to confront my mom.”
    “Wait, so you’re telling me that you’re going
to risk your life so you can confront your mom?” he said in
disbelief.
    “I need to do this… while I still can,” I
explained. He gave me a dirty look. “What? You don’t think I
deserve answers? You don’t think I deserve to know why she did what
she did?”
    “Grace just tried to kill you, and now you
need answers as to why your mom tried to kill her?”
    “No, not just that.” I realized I hadn’t told
him, or anyone. “She was going to sell me, sell my power.”
    “That’s not reason enough to—”
    “There are a million things that I need to
know, and if you don’t understand that…. I’m not asking you or
anyone else to go with me; this is just something I need to do,” I
proclaimed.
    “If you’re going, then I’m coming with
you.”
    “It’s not safe for you to come with me.”
    “It’s not safe to go, period, but I’m not
letting you go alone,” he argued
    “Fine tomorrow morning, we’ll go.”
    He went upstairs to get dressed. I lay in bed
thinking about what would happen tomorrow. I needed answers, but
more than that, I hoped these answers somehow proved my mom
innocent, but I didn’t see that happening. Before I knew it, I was
asleep, something I thought would never come.
     
    The three quiet girls standing in front of me
didn’t frighten me, though I felt they should. Their eyes were
fixed on me, but they didn’t move. I stood there as calm as I could
manage, the greatest power I had to claim. I knew this would be
bad; I could see the malicious look in each of their eyes. They
took a step forward, and I took two steps back. They stayed where
they were without a word. I thought about running, but I didn’t
know where I was, deep in the woods. The trees didn’t glow, so I
knew I wasn’t near Elizabeth and George’s anymore. I also knew I
could be in some real danger.
    Finally, I spoke. “Are you with the
Alliance?” I asked, keeping the fear far away from my voice.
    “The Alliance?” one of the girls laughed. “Oh
the Alliance is nothing compared to us.”
    Frozen in fear, I hadn’t noticed their
bright-red locks streaming down. The same red hair that I had. Nor
had I noticed, that the eyes that bore into mine were the exact
shade of bright green that I stared back with.
    “So who are y—you?” I stammered. The calm had
been washed away, replaced with unmistakable horror.
    “You’ll find out soon enough,” a different
girl spoke. They each had different features, none the same as the
other, the same as me, but if I was standing beside them, we could
all be mistaken for quadruplets.
    “What do you want?” I choked.
    “Well that’s hard to answer. I guess it
depends on what you decide to do,” the girl on the right
threatened.
    “What do you mean?” I asked.
    “You’ll see.”
     
     
     

Chapter 5: Revenge
    My eyes popped open. The afternoon sun was
blinding. The clock said it was two. I got out of bed and threw on
some jeans and a black T-shirt. I ran out the front door and
searched for Dante. I finally found him at George and Elizabeth’s
sitting with them at the table. They all looked over with
disappointment.
    “You told them,” I accused.
    “I had to, Scarlett,” Dante reasoned.
    “You cannot leave here,” Elizabeth
protested.
    “I’m so sorry. I can’t thank you two enough,
but I need to do this.” I looked over at Dante, “with or without
your