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Destined for Time
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Author: Stacie Simpson
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upstairs and I started
clearing the immediate area.
    From another room I heard Dragon shouting, “What happened?
Where is she Doyle?”
    I strained to hear Doyle’s groggy response. “It was
Scarlett. She came to the door and said you wanted Serafina to join you in your
office.” Dragon swore loudly and I finished clearing the downstairs. When Rook
and I met beside Dragon, Doyle was talking from where he was slumped on the
floor with his head in his hands. “Something wasn’t right though. She didn’t
smell like Scarlett.”
    She didn’t smell like Scarlett?
    Doyle continued, “I tried to close the door in her face but
then Rook stepped off the elevator. I was going to explain my suspicions to him
but he cold-cocked me before I could say a word. As I was passing out I
realized he didn’t smell right either.”
    Dragon roared, an inhuman sound that sent chills skittering
up my spine, then he sent a table flying into the glass doors at the other end
of the room. They shattered with the impact showering the terrace with glass
and wood. When he turned to Rook there was fear and rage burning in the red
flames that consumed his usually brown eyes. I’d never seen anything so
frightening in all my life and I stepped behind Rook as Dragon bellowed, “She’s
dying! I can feel her slipping away.”
    “She’s not here Dragon. I need you to calm down and
concentrate on her. Lead us to her. We can’t save her if we can’t find her.”
Rook’s reasonable tone seemed to bring Dragon back from whatever edge he’d been
teetering on.
    Dragon went out onto the terrace and Rook put his arm out to
keep me from following. We watched as Dragon lifted his face to the sky and
inhaled deeply a few times. Then he went to the railing and scanned the beaches
below. Slowly Rook and I crossed the living room and stopped where the glass
doors used to be.
    Suddenly Dragon fell to the ground moaning on his hands and
knees.
    “Shit,” Rook swore as he ran to Dragon and crouched down in
front of him. Speaking urgently he said, “Dragon, I’m going to reset the clock
but we need to know where she is or we’ll never reach her in time. Do you know
where she is?”
    Dragon shook his head. “I don’t know for sure but I think
she might be down there on the beach where that fire is burning.”
    Rook glanced over the railing and nodded. “We’ll find a way
to save her just hold on.”
    As I came closer to them, Dragon reached out to grasp Rook’s
arm and said, “Travali was here, and Ivanna, I can smell them both.”
    I remembered Rook saying one of the two troublemakers had
been named Travali but I couldn’t imagine why the Senator’s new wife would be
involved in whatever happened here.
    Rook stood, leaving Dragon where he was, and approached me
with a determined but wary expression. “I need your help Angela. I’ve already
reset time twice tonight. I can’t do it again by myself and even if I could I
wouldn’t be able to go back far enough for this.”
    Something about the look in his eyes set off all kinds of
warning bells inside my head but I tried to hide my fear when I replied, “I don’t
understand. How can I help? I can’t travel through time.”
    He made a frustrated sound and growled, “I don’t have time
to explain. I need you to trust me. Serafina’s life depends on it.”
    I looked down at the ground, unable to meet his eyes while I
considered his request. Rook had never done a single thing that indicated he
would harm me, and going by what I’d seen and heard tonight, he took my safety
very seriously. That meant whatever danger my internal alarm was trying to warn
me about was more than likely the emotional kind not the physical kind.
    Knowing Rook wouldn’t ask for my help if it wasn’t
absolutely necessary to save Serafina’s life there was only one choice I could
live with, no matter what the consequences might be later. I lifted my head and
met his eyes, resolved to do whatever he needed me to do. “What
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