by Carly Morgan
Kaelia wasn’t so easily roused. “What is it?” she murmured sleepily, blocking her eyes from the light with an arm thrown over her face.
“Roomies are home,” Callan explained, striding towards the door of the bedroom.
When she managed to follow him out, all three of them were there in a huddle on the couch; Callan, Lux, and Maddie, focused deeply on something on Lux’s laptop. After the people from Plekser had tipped off the showrunners that she wasn’t a fair match against the other competitors and been disqualified from the competition, Lux had taken first place. Of course, the prize money amount had been laughable, and they lived mostly off his connections in high places.
With Lux in first place, that meant Wesley Mills had secured second, and was set to be released from his sentence any day now. It still choked Kaelia up a little to know Indigo had been found dead in the jungle, though there were only three deaths besides her; Emmanuel Kant, Evan Roberts and Grady Lair. The rest were all sent back to where they came from, though with the rebels uprising against Amity, there was a probable chance they might be getting out sooner rather than later as well.
“I figured out where their headquarters is,” Lux was saying. “But infiltrating it is going to be difficult.”
“I don’t care,” Callan said urgently. “We’ll do whatever it takes.”
She took her place beside Callan on the couch, folding her legs underneath her. She tried to be inconspicuous, but she still winced when her chafed and swollen bottom brushed up against her legs, just when Lux happened to glance up.
“You slip your guards again?” he asked her knowingly, if not a bit sympathetically.
Kaelia felt her other cheeks heating up, though there was no use denying it. Both Maddie and Lux had heard plenty of her spankings, along with Callan’s loud scoldings and lectures. More than ever she wished for sound-proof walls, or maybe their own place in the country. She glanced accusingly up at Callan, as if this was all his fault, though he just shrugged, refusing to take responsibility for her spanked bottom.
“I keep trying to tell her,” Callan eventually took up for himself. “Maybe now she’ll believe me.”
“What?” Kaelia was suddenly on guard, trying to peer over the top of Lux’s laptop. “What did you find?”
“A break in the case,” Maddie said confidently, or should Kaelia refer to her as Detective Drew? She’d been undercover during the competition, hoping to get dirt on Amity’s People Party, though she hadn’t intended on falling in love with one of the contestants.
“The good people of Plekser have so far managed to track you to both Finland and Nova Scotia, and they left quite a paper trail in their wake,” Lux went on.
Kaelia felt her blood go a bit cold. Since leaving the island a year ago, the four of them had bounced around quite a bit, trying to stay ahead of Plekser, almost leading them around like bait. It unnerved her to learn the scientists had managed to figure out where she was so easily.
“We’ll have to move again,” Callan echoed her sentiments. “Soon.”
“That we will, but in the meantime, we’ve pinpointed a location on Plekser.” Lux clicked around on his laptop. “It’s on a compound in North America. We managed to get photos off the drone.”
“Photos?” Kaelia cut in. “Did you…”
But Callan was already whirling Lux’s laptop towards him, and Kaelia peered over his shoulder. There were lots of shadowy, pixilated images on the screen, and Callan hurriedly zoomed in on one, clicking and clicking. The blurry image of a man appeared, completely naked except a pair of tight-fitting boxers, running laps out in a yard.
“Is that…” she started, nervous.
“Caden,” Callan finished for her, his voice breathless with disbelief. “You found him.”
“Well, not exactly,” Lux pivoted his laptop back to him. “They move him around quite a bit, you see. First, he’s one place, then another, and now they know that we’re onto them, too.”
“I don’t care,” Callan barked. “We need to do whatever it takes. I want him out of there.”
“It might not be as easy as you think,” Maddie said, her smooth voice compassionate with emotion. “You were just a boy when you last saw him. He’s changed…”
“No,” Callan interrupted her, shaking his head. “Not Caden. We need to find him.”
“I have sources who can help us, but it won’t happen overnight, and it might be dangerous,” Lux explained. “You’d be putting yourselves at risk, although, since Plekser still doesn’t know you’re one of them too, you’d mostly be putting her…”
Lux trailed off, and Callan stared down at Kaelia, before clutching her close. “You know I can’t do that,” he breathed at last.
“No,” Kaelia defied him, and her eyes flashed. “Don’t not do this because of me. I can help, you know. I’m not as vulnerable as you think. Or maybe I am. But isn’t there bravery in vulnerability?”
Callan appraised her for a long time, and then drew her into his arms, kissing the top of her head. “You’re right,” he said softly. And then, louder, “Are you ready for another challenge?”
“No,” she grinned at him, pulling away and locking her jeweled onyx eyes with his turquoise ones. “But when has that ever mattered before?”
The End
Carly Morgan
Carly Morgan currently resides in a quaint little city in New England, though has lived all over the country, and would one day like to expand that to the world. She started writing from a young age, and her ‘secret’ collection of writing always contained some element of spanking. Now she is happy to share those type of stories with whoever would like to read them. Carly enjoys travel, good stories, all things mystical and strange, coffee, and her cat, Rainbow (though not necessarily in that order).
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