Betrayal (Vanish Book Two) by Sonny Daise Page B

help.”
    “No.” Elizabeth said and walked away.
    “I’m sorry, what do you mean, no ?” I
objected.
    “I mean,” she said as she turned around.
“You’re not going.”
    “So you’re going to keep me here forever like
a prisoner?”
    “Honey, she’s right,” George finally
spoke.
    “You know I can’t let her do this, and you
know why,” Elizabeth disagreed
    “The Alliance? I’ll be fine. Skylar somehow
managed to come here. Everyone is safer if I leave, and that
includes me.”
    “That’s not it,” Elizabeth said with her back
turned to me.
    “I’m sorry, but this is something I need to
do. She’s my mother, but she’s never been a mother to me, and then
she does this…” I trailed off.
    “That’s where you’re wrong, she’s—” Elizabeth
started.
    “Elizabeth, we need to let her do this. She
will find out what she needs to… on her own.”
    I looked at both of them, switching my eyes
between them every few seconds. It was like they were speaking in
codes or something, like they knew something I didn’t.
    “I will come back… if I’m welcome, but I need
to confront her.”
    “I’m sorry. I know. This is more about you
getting hurt, than what could result.” She grabbed two bags of dirt
off of the table.
    “Thank you Elizabeth. I’ll come back. I
promise.”
    “If you’re going, I’m going,” Dante said.
    “You don’t have to. It’s your choice,” I
murmured.
    “I’m not letting you go alone.”
    “Here take this, too,” Elizabeth said as she
grabbed a cell phone off the table. Since Dante already had one, I
took it and put it in my pocket.
    “Good luck,” George said as we walked out the
door.
     
    When we reached the car, it was obvious how
nervous Dante was. He put the bags in the glove compartment, and as
he did, I noticed his hands were shaking.
    “You don’t have to do this.” I looked over at
him. “I can find another way, or you could let me borrow your
car.”
    “No, I’m not going to let you do this alone.
I’m sure the whole thing with the Alliance is exaggerated. I’ve
never heard of them going after someone to that extent, no matter
what the circumstances.”
    “Well I hope you’re right,” I smiled the best
fake smile I could. Just like in my dream last night, I needed to
appear calm and confident. I watched the road ahead covered on both
sides with trees, when suddenly everything changed. There was
nothing around at all, just long grass and fields. I looked over at
Dante to make sure I wasn’t dreaming.
    “My powers have gotten stronger,” he
explained. “I think you had a big part in that.”
    “How?” I wondered.
    “Just being near you, I feel stronger. I bet
if I tried to take us right to your mom’s house I could, but then I
might not be able to get us out if I needed to,” he sighed.
    “How far away are we? And how did you take
the car with us?”
    “We’re not very far, and I don’t know I just
tried it, and it worked. It was actually less difficult than I
thought.”
    “Are we going to be passing the mental
hospital?” I asked. I still wanted to know what the deal with that
was. Now that I knew about our powers, I knew what went on at that
hospital could have been even weirder than what I thought
before.
    “No. We already did.”
    “We’re already that close?” I asked,
stunned.
    “Yeah, coming from her house took a lot
longer because there were a lot of stops, and I didn’t teleport
us.”
    “So this is it huh? In a few short minutes, I
will get to confront her.”
    The wind blew like crazy, and it looked like
it was about to storm. The ground was wet because it had been
raining earlier.
    “Yep,” he took in a deep breath. As we turned
down the road, I thought I was going to be sick. He drove right
past the house.
    “What are you doing?”
    “No one’s home. So, we can wait inside and
catch them by surprise. I’m going to park the car down the
street.”
    “Okay.” As I went to get out of the car,