Chapter 281

Then it hit me, “Wait, Kiley, you said she showed you an ipad?” the little girl nodded, “Remy get your laptop,” I said before I teleported back to my room, changing into boots, jeans and a sweater, then went back to my office, grabbing my laptop and turning it on, going back to the kitchen, startling Grant and Julia, “sorry,” I murmured when their eyes widened, hands reached for each other and they took a very small step back. Handing my laptop to Remy, “can you track her ipad, tell us where on the island she currently is?” I said bending over to tie my shoes, “I’m calling Leland and Roman, they know the island as well as I do,” Marlon said as we waited, “even if they can’t locate her with that gadget, we have to go soon, before her scent if completely washed off the forest floor with overnight rain,” he advised but I was still searching. Lux?I called him and instead of turning to me as though I had done it out loud, he continued conversing with Marlon, Yeah? He replied. Is there anyone on the island that has a gift of blocking? A shield so that I wouldn’t be able to get into their thoughts? Not that we know of, it could be something they’re developing though, but as of the last inventory census we took, no one had that ability, or have ever hidden their thoughts from Marlon, Leland and I, I sighed in relief. Send someone you trust to check out the Hellmanns just to be safe,I ordered wanting to cover my bases. “Kiley, there are four paths and the one main road that lead to the beach where you guys were playing, which one did Ben and Oakley come in from? Do you know?” Marlon asked his daughter, “the first one, but Oakley didn’t use that same path to leave the beach Dad, when they walked over to us, she was under the shade between the third and fourth and she walked in-between, she had to use her hands to push some of the bush away to enter there,” knew it was weird, I mean she was in sandals, hopefully she isn’t hurt, Kiley finished. “What?” Julia, not a wolf but in tune with facial expressions asked Kiley worried, “what’s wrong?” Kiley glanced at her father before answering, he gave her a nod, “It’s just that, she was wearing, really soft looking sandals on her feet, if she went exploring and isn’t on a path, maybe she fell… or hurt herself…” she offered slowing down when Ben released a low menacing growl from his lips, his young chest vibrating. Hands shaking at his sides, when Grant approached him, he took two steps back, his baby blue eyes now a stormy cobalt blue. Luna… Chelsea…Gabriel?  Someone called, I stopped mid step towards Ben, yes? Who is this? My eyes went to Gabriel’s… are you hearing this? Yes. There was a chuckle, it’s Logan, my crew and I went to the address you sent us, the one in Camden, London? Well we are at the loft, we dug up the plot that your source gave you and we have a concrete slab, four by five feet. It doesn’t look like it’s been touched since buried, we aren’t too sure, but before we bring it to the island, do you want us to use Ultrasound Echo to check to make sure this isn’t a trap? Logan offered, my eyes went back to Gabriel. Instantly my mind went to answer him, tell him yes, what if someone has them, but did this – make it seem like no one has touched it? So that if Nora came back, this would lead to impairing her, making sure she couldn’t just go since her father wants her dead? Gabriel smiled at me. Excellent thinking – and if it is being traced and tracked it won’t be led here, he added, Logan, be careful, don’t bring it here first, only bring the violin cases here, we don’t want anyone to track us, “Guys, I can’t track or find the ipad,” Remy answered sadly. “We go back where she was last seen, track her from there-” “I’m coming,” Ben said, or snarled, everyone eyeing me, I sighed taking a step towards him, “Ben, I know you want to help find her, but we don’t know the island, you don’t have-” he had started groaning, and then I heard it, the telltale of a shift happening starting, Ben fell to his knees, panting. “What’s happening?” Grant said coming right next to me, that same worried fatherly tone in his voice, I had never heard it from Jay, but from Jason. “He’s shifting, Oakley missing,” it’s making him angry and instigating his shift, he needs to be calm though, if he fights the shift it’s going to hurt more, if he continues to be angry then it’s still going to be painful as well… I explain anticipating Grant to startle a bit but nothing happens. He just nods, “What do we do for him?” console him? “No, oddly, when you touch him it’s going to be painful,” you just have to be calm around him, don’t worry all this is normal; he’s going to be feeding off of what you’re feeling, I told them both at once, Julia nodded as did Grant, “You just have to find Oakley, Chelsea, you go find her and we’re gonna wait for you here,” I nodded approaching Ben, kneeling next to him, “I’ll find her Ben, but you need to relax, think of something you and Oakley did together that was fun, or something that makes you calm, it’ll hurt less if you’re not fighting it or angry,” I said over his groaning. “Do you understand? You have to be calm…” he just moaned, standing I followed the guys, Violet coming up behind me, Gabriel at my side we left the house, the three of us following Marlon, going where his daughter said we would find Oakley’s scent. None of us needing light we made it to the beach, still finding lingering traces of Oakley’s scent, noting right away that she never made it to my house, in fact she strayed off the trail immediately.