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fact as she followed Thomas and the rest of the group out of the training hole.
    “Do you all wanna refresh and regroup tonight?” Lance asked.
    “Sure,” Thomas said. “Sounds great.”
    But Ava knew it was code for going to Klaus’s secret room. She walked fast to her room, waiting to turn on her emotions, if only for a little bit. When she reached the door, someone called out to her.
    Ava looked up and saw Xavier.
    “Are you in a rush?” he asked, one eyebrow cocked.
    “No. I’m just really sweaty and disgusting.”
    He chuckled. “I understand. See you at the tavern later?”
    “Yeah, sure.”
    Turning the knob, she opened the door and then quickly closed it. She rested against the door for a second, and as she tore down the mental wall, she raced to the bathroom.
    All the food she had eaten that day was gone. The first time she saw Gabriel in probably a month, she abused him. Made him drown several times, choking up water. Again and again. Her heart ached as she clutched her stomach. She curled up into a ball on the bathroom floor, squeezing the rug near the toilet.
    Whenever she got sick, her father always comforted her. But he wasn’t there, and now it was just her to take care of herself. She would never forgive herself for the pain she caused. Somehow, she had to talk to Gabriel, if he would ever listen to her. Would he forgive her? Could he still love her?
    Ava slammed her fist down on the tiled floor as his last look haunted her. No. Gabriel would never forgive her, and he couldn’t love her. Not through something like this. She had chosen her path, and she had to stick with it, no matter what. Even if it was for the good of the Enchanters and Ephemerals.
     

CHAPTER EIGHT
LINKED
    With her emotions back on, Ava sat in horror as she relived what she had done to Gabriel. She shook her head, but couldn’t keep the sobs back. “Why didn’t he fight back? He just took it. All of them did.”
    “I can’t do that again,” Thomas said, pacing in front of Klaus’s fireplace.
    They had retreated there again after drinks with Xavier and some of the other Cimmerians. Why they always went to the tavern when there was a perfectly good city to get lost in baffled Ava.
    “You’ll have to do it again,” Klaus told them. “Havok will want to see it for himself.”
    “What if we become monsters like them?” Gillian asked, her blue eyes wet with tears. “The whole time I wanted to kill the Cimmerians. Why can’t we just attack now?”
    Klaus frowned. “I know it’s hard. This mission cannot be easy for anyone. But you all are our only hope. You’re the only ones who can stop him.”
    “We know,” Melissa said. Ava could detect annoyance in her voice.
    “This is what we had to do when they made us into Enchanters,” Link said. “Even when we changed, we bullied everyone. We tortured each other and punished the prisoners at the time.”
    “It wasn’t easy, and neither is this,” Nicole said.
    “You remember your life here?” Ava asked.
    “Bits and pieces,” she said. “I just see flashes.”
    Link nodded. “Me too.”
    “Don’t fret,” Klaus said. “It’ll all be over soon. And I promise I will try and help you all out as much as I can.”
    “Letting us have this time helps a lot,” Katarina said. Her brown eyes welled as Peter held her close.
    “Tell us where they’re keeping the prisoners,” Thomas demanded.
    Klaus sighed. “I can’t.”
    “You realize we will find out, right?”
    “You realize there’s no way you can go see your friends? Havok will find out very quickly and wonder why you’re down there.”
    “We can play it off,” Ava said. “They’re the ones who so-called kidnapped us. Maybe we want to punish them more.”
    Klaus pressed his lips in a thin line. “You must take a protector with you. Once your emotions are on, it’s easy for Havok to get inside, especially you Ava.”
    “Why me? Because he tortured me before?”
    Klaus studied her for a moment.