I walk up and wrap my arms around him, giving him a hug. Tom is wearing a suit instead of cleaning scrubs and looks quite professional. I hear Theo and Tobias walk up behind us and Tom nods to both of them.
“Did any documents get dropped off while we were off?” Asks Theo.
“No, are you talking about the…” Theo cuts him off with a growl.
It’s a strange reaction, but whatever Tom was about to say dies on his lips at the warning growl. “No documents have been dropped off,” he says, looking at Theo.
My eyebrows furrow and I wonder what the documents are that Tobias and Theo clearly don’t want me to know about. “What documents? Maybe they have been emailed? I can check when we get upstairs” I ask.
“No, these would have to be personally dropped off,” Tobias says, tugging me towards the entrance. Theo shoots Tom a look.
“I might go check the emails just in case,” Theo says, taking off up the stairs next to the elevator.
“I could have checked when we got upstairs, what’s so important about these documents anyway?” I ask Tobias.
“Nothing that concerns you, but they were supposed to have been dropped to the house by now.” I wonder what the documents are, but mentioning them does remind me that tomorrow I’m supposed to go to the council and have some tests run, and meet the people that are going to decide my future.
I suddenly feel nervous. Tobias presses the button in the elevator to our floor before looking down at me. “What’s wrong, love?” He asks, staring at me while I chew on my nail. It is a terrible nervous habit, Tobias pulls my thumb away from my lips. “What’s wrong?” He asks again.
“Nothing, I just realized I have to meet the council tomorrow.”
He pulls me against him, wrapping his arms around my shoulder. “You will be fine, no one will hurt you. I promise.”
When we step out the elevator, I’m shocked to see Theo’s mother, Caroline waiting in the foyer talking to Theo.
“What are you doing here, ma?” Tobias asks, as he steps out of the elevator.
“Good morning, Imogen, son. We have a slight problem, the council want to meet today. We need to leave after lunch.”
“Where’s dad?” Tobias asks, looking around. Josiah isn’t here, only Caroline.
“He is sorting out your other issues, they are being quite difficult.”
I hear both Theo and Tobias growl lowly, Theo’s eyes darken. “When do we leave?” Tobias asks.
“We have to meet them at two.” Tobias nods, while I stand there shaking, fear consumes me and something else. I’m not sure what it is, but I feel like something is slightly amiss. I just have a feeling something is going to happen, and I’m not going to like it.
Caroline waits at the office, constantly on edge pacing back and forth. I can’t understand her nervousness, she isn’t the one about to march into this so-called mythical council and beg for her life.
She keeps checking her phone constantly. When I ask what is wrong, she just says she is waiting for her husband to come back. I wonder what her husband is doing that has her so on edge. When Josiah finally does show up, she all but runs to the elevator, watching the numbers above the stainless-steel doors till it dings on our floor.
Josiah steps out of the elevator, an annoyed look on his face like he brought bad news. I feel my stomach drop instantly, thinking it is the council as he speaks to his wife in a hushed voice before realizing I’m standing, watching them.
“Tobias isn’t going to like this; I can’t believe that evil wretch.” I hear his mother say.
Tobias walks out and motions for his parents to step into his office. “Did you get it?” He asks.
His father shakes his head. “Not yet, they want to meet you in person. Tomorrow,” he says as he steps through the door, closing it behind him.
Theo comes out of his office, looking at the door before looking towards me. I hear him growl lowly before walking over, obviously listening in on the conversation behind the closed door that I can’t hear.
“What’s going on? Why is everyone being so secretive?”
“It’s nothing that you need to worry about, just having issues with a client from the council,” he tells me.
I can feel through the bond he isn’t lying, that whomever it is they need these documents from is from the council, yet I can feel something else, like he isn’t telling me the whole truth.
Stepping out from behind my desk, I walk over to the bathroom, wanting to wash my face and freshen up before we have to leave in an hour. It is nearly 11:30 am and apparently, the drive takes an hour, and we will have to leave no later than 12:30.
Grabbing my handbag, I walk into the bathroom and rummage through my bag, looking for my lipstick and eyeliner that I always carry. Digging through the oversized handbag, I become annoyed before tipping the contents into the sink and start rummaging. I find my lip balm but not my lipstick. I sigh, picking it up thinking it will have to do before digging in the sink, looking for the rest of my things. I pick up my phone and start dumping stuff back inside my bag. I really need to clean my bag out one day, I have so much junk in it I can barely find anything. Picking up the handkerchief I hear a foil packet drop out of it and into the sink. My heart skips a beat when I realize what it is.
I pick up the foil package – it is my birth control, unused. I completely forgot all about taking it, in fact I haven’t taken it in months, not really needing to. Although I should have. However, with everything going on with my mother, and Tobias and Theo keeping me hostage, it hasn’t been exactly the first thing on my mind.
Picking it up, my hands are shaking. I try to remember the last time I had my period, but no matter the amount of times I recount in my head, it comes back to the same thing – before my mother died.
I am late. Grabbing my phone out, I check the app on my phone that usually sends me an alert to tell me when they are due. My heart is bumping frantically in my chest when I realize it never alerted me because of the lack of cell service at the property. I check the last date and nearly pass out from holding my breath. I’m a month and seventeen days late.