Page 105 of The Blairville Legacies

Emely glared back angrily, then turned and walked past us to the front door, only to disappear with a loud crash.

That the door hadn’t fallen out of its nails yet was nothing short of a miracle.

“Come we go. We don’t have to put up with this any longer,” Vivienna pressed out, visibly annoyed, turned around and marched up the stairs with her vain escort, without even giving us another glance.

Silence reigned until Larissa started laughing.

“What was that about?” She grinned broadly at all of us.

Then Grace laughed, too.

Bay’s smile, on the other hand, faded from her face again as she headed for the door.

“Where are you going?” Larissa asked.

“To talk to Emely.”

Abruptly, we fell silent.

“Why?” Grace laughed nervously, apparently realizing this wasn’t a good idea either. Not withwhatEmely was. She would rip Bayla to shreds, as in a rage as she must be at the moment....

“Because she didn’t deserve that.”

And with those words, she went on her way, leaving us speechless.

Deep down, I knew she was right, however that didn’t change the fact that Bayla didn’t know the whole truth.

“To each his own,” was all Grace said, and she went to the kitchen corner to heave a large pot out of the sink and then fill it with water.

Grace wouldn’t go out there and stop Bayla, because if anyone followed the rules even more strictly than I did, it was her. I didn’t know anyone who was more honorable to the contracts than Grace was.

Larissa disappeared upstairs because she had something to prepare for a seminar. Surely it had something to do with the pictures on her camera that she had been taking non-stop today. I had been envious when she had demonstrated her talent to us this morning. Everyone was good at something. Justeveryonewas creative. And then there was me.

Good grades in school, especially in programming and science, which had been with me since I could remember, had been my plus points in my application for my field of study. But what mattered in my cold life was elemental magic, and inthatI was a pure disappointment to the Circle and the Councils.

Thoughtfully, I turned to the cell phone in my hand. I would have to get it fixed. Preferably by my aunt. She controlled the element earth and could therefore also influence any material without it returning to its broken original form in half-life, as with Grace’s earth magic.

To see if it at least still worked, I touched the display.

A new message.

I had forgotten all about Erik.

I quickly opened our chat history again, and his last message stood out to me. It gave me goosebumps.

Chapter 23

Bayla

I needed to stop putting myself in stressful situations over and over again. I probably just attracted all kinds of problems like a stupid magnet. There was no other way I could explain how everything around me was always blowing up.

It had only been a week since we lived in Blairville, and already life here was an absolute disaster.

First, Mady’s ex-boyfriend had gotten into a fight with a billionaire at the bar. Mady had stormed out and disappeared without a trace, and since then, none of us had spoken to her, and now Emely again, reacting more and more aggressively to everyone.

It couldn’t get any worse.

I hurried along the trail where I had last seen Emely. But now she had disappeared, and I had no clue where she had gone.

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