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**Josie’s POV**
We arrive outside the address we had been given for Emma and Thor lets out a whistle. The house is huge, even
bigger than ours, which is rare in this realm, considering we have the largest bond group. It remindsof an
English country manor house and the garden is well-kept wonder if they had to hire a whole teath of staff to
keep this place in this immaculate state.
The ground crunches under our feet as we walk down the stoned driveway and towards the large wooden door.
Luke lifts his hand to press the doorbell, but the door open before he gets a chance.
A plump woman around the sheight aswith short dark hair peers out at us. This must be Emma. She
appears to studyintently before grinning.
“Josie, you truly are a beauty, please, con in,” she says, stepping back to allow us entry.
We accept her invitation and walk into the grand house that is just as immaculate on the inside as it is on the
outside. It smells clean like someone has very recently used furniture polish, and I try not to gape at the
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtgrandeur of the place.
“Con through to the sitting room, would you like anything to drink?” Emma asks.
“No, thank you,” | say, wanting to get this over quickly as I'm starting to get an uneasy feeling-
Emma nods and leads us to a large sitting room that has three couches centred around a large fireplace. | take a
seat, Luke and Theo both sitting on either side ofand Emma sits on the couch next to us.
“I'm sorry,
I don’t mean to be rude, but you said you know someone who could help find my daughter, and obviously that’s
something I'm keen to get on with,” | say when Emma seems content to just look atwith a fond smile.
“Yes, of course. | had hoped to meet you under better circumstances, but that can wait until a later date. There is
someone who was quite highly ranked in Cornelius’ group. know he must have sinformation that could help
you. He may even be able to lead you straight to Harper if you can get permission to have him released from the
prison,” Emma says.
“Why would anyone from Cornelius‘ group want to help us? We are the ones that put them in there,” | frown, but
deep down | know what she is about to say, and I'm not sure if | want to hear it.
“Because Harper is his granddaughter,” Emma says with a tight smile.
“No thanks,” | say, standing to leave.
“Josie, please just hearout,” Emma pleads.
I look at Luke and Theo, who are both standing, ready to leave with me. Theo shrugs and Luke givesa tight
smile. | know what they are saying without any need for words. They think | should hear what she has to say, but
are ready to leave withif that’s really what | want. With a sigh, I sit back down.
“You have five minutes before | go back out to search for my daughter.”
“My brother was a good child, rarely misbehaved and worked hard on his studies. He was really interested in
construction and was already drawing up plans for the house he planned to build for his bond group. Every time
the seer visited the academy he was so excited, for years he never gave up hope. Always telling us the next time
the seer visited he would find his bond. When he got to his final year at the academy, and he was still sitting at
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unbonded table, seeing all his friends happy and sitting with their bonds, he changed. He fell into a deep
depression, and then one day he just disappeared. We all thought he’d taken his own life because he couldn't
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmbear to live without a bond. He had so much love to give, but no Bond or children to give it to. We didn’t find out
until last year that he was involved in the whole Cornellus scandal. He had been living under a different name
Chir whole family were devastated and ashamed to find out what he had done. It took six months before my
mum could face seeing him again, but when she did, he expressed great remorse. He said he had been weak,
and so lost that when he was approached by Cornelius, and promised he would be able to have children of his
own if he joined the faction, he jumped at the chance,” Emma explains.
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