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back. I wanted to keep myself prepared in case he did first but boredom had begun to set in. Troy was sitting in a chair by the desk, I was pacing in front of the balcony door just to keep my blood pumping and Darius, well, he was being Darius.
    “Would you stop it?” I said, hoping he would quit going through her things and just sit and behave somewhere but perhaps I was asking too much of him.
    “What? Could you even imagine her wearing half of this stuff?” He was touching some kind of article of clothing that sparkled with fancy gems and reeked of feminine ruffles and lace. “It just doesn’t seem like Adele.”
    “Have a little respect for a lady and stop touching it.”
    He sighed and closed up the drawer. “All right but only because you say so. I’m sure you already know she’s not a lady.”
    “Thank you.”
    He sat in another chair by Troy and I proceeded with my pacing. It didn’t help. I was getting more impatient by the second until the door finally opened. I hoped it was her but I hoped too much for that to be true.
    Ryon stood in the doorway, appearing alone. “Good evening, ladies.”
    “She’s not here.” I said, fighting passed the insult so I wouldn’t be the one to start something.
    “I think you would know that I already know that.”
    “Then why are you here?” I stepped to the middle of the room and heard Troy and Darius stand up behind me like they were waiting for it too.
    “Well, there seems to be a small, little, tiny problem with you being here.”
    “What?”
    “That was it. Pretty straight forward but you’re leaving us with no choice.”
    “Us?”
    Ryon began to show signs of a winning smile that I learned quickly not to appreciate. “Behind you.”
    Kole was standing in the doorway of the balcony with a smile of his own. I remembered it from Seni and those eyes of silver. “Hello, boys. Nice to see you again. You’ve strayed an awful long way from home, haven’t you?”
    “What is it you want?” I asked.
    “If that were only possible, you’d already be dead. What we’ll settle for is your full and devoted cooperation for the matters at hand are severe. Your choice.”
    “What he means is, we can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way.” Ryon said. “But either way you choose, know that our plans won’t change.”
    “Do what exactly?” Troy asked.
    “Why, prepare for your audience, of course. There’s someone who’s been dying to meet you.”
    “Meet us or kill us?” Darius asked.
    General Balwin immediately came to mind, his eyes of hate staring right into mine.
    “Kill you? Oh, no. At least—not yet.”
    I didn’t know what was going on or what that was even supposed to mean but I had remembered what Adele told me about submitting and I stuck true to our agreement. “When do we start?”
    “A wise choice. We’ll start now. Kole, make sure they don’t do anything they’ll regret.”
    Kole appeared aside the doorway next to Ryon even faster than I could blink. It was a shock but I kept myself from reacting even when a rope moved off his side, floating right towards us. All my muscles tensed and I didn’t have control over myself anymore. My arms were pulled behind me with an unwilling force and the rope wrapped tightly around my wrists. I didn’t agree to this but what could I do when I couldn’t move my own body?
    “What are you doing?”
    “Just assuring that things go our way. Have them follow.” Ryon turned out of the room and Kole stood looking in our direction.
    “Don’t bother. Give us control and we can do that ourselves.”
    I felt my body relax and I could have reacted but with my hands tied and nothing sharp in sight to cut them, I walked to the door.
    Kole let us walk out after Ryon and he followed behind us. Surely they weren’t completely stupid. They couldn’t leave with us. I soon found out that wasn’t their plan at all. We were escorted all the way down into a dark room in the basement of the manor. It