Page 69 of The Divide that Binds Us

“Yeah, she just left.She looked so distraught,” Stacy says.“I offered to escort her to the infirmary to get checked out, but she refused and kept asking about Alice.Security paged Rebecca to intervene, but Natasha left before she could come down.”

Wow, she really is alive and maybe...okay.

Evangeline tries calling Alice next, but it rings until it reaches her voicemail, so she hangs up and sends her an urgent text.By now, she makes a right at the end of the hall and shortly comes up to the foyer with Billie waiting at the door.

“Ready to go?”Billie asks.

“Yes, we need to hurry.Natasha was just at Elite looking for Alice.She may still be lurking around.Oh, and something weird is going on with Mi—” Evangeline stops herself and rushes out the door to find the cab waiting.They make another attempt at calling Alice and she answers this time.

“Where to, ladies?Elite base?”the driver asks.

“Yes, please,” Evangeline says politely.“Alice?Where are you right now?”

“Training in the gym with Skylar.”

“They’re here on Garnet looking for you!”Billie shouts.

Silence for a second over the phone.“Oh.”

There’s a thick layer of despondency in her voice.

“Alice, they’re growing more persistent, but Natasha is okay!She was taken by Ultima.”Evangeline bites her lip and tries to calm her jittery foot.“We just had dinner with Remington but we’re on our way back now!

“Report everything to Rebecca.If Natasha was taken by Ultima, she most certainly is not okay.”

Chapter 15

Priorities

Ultima: Rio

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Lynn and the twinsstorm into my office for a status report on Natasha’s Elite excursion from earlier tonight.I chug my raspberry soda, nose fizzing from the carbonation.

“So, how’d it go?”I suppress a burp.

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