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** Josie’s POV **
When I retrieve my phone from my bedroom I’m not surprised to see messages from Dot and Sunny.
Dot: New human realm Greys are here. Do you know them?
Dot: Bitch, where the hell are you? Drama with the new girl She tried to compel Mr C in front of the whole dining hall!! He was so passed! Dragged her out of there with steam coming out of his ears I swear!
Dot: Okay I just spoke to the new guy, he says he knows you and you’re in heat. I need all the deets on these newcomers. Do we like them?
Me: Yeah sorry, heat came at the perfect time… NOT! It’s complicated with those two. I’ll give you the full story when I see you but we like Coner, Molly is a bitch!
I respond to Dot before checking Sunny’s message.
Sunny: Hey, so I think Coner is my bond. Of course, I won’t act on anything until the seer has been to confirm it but I wanted to tell you anyway. Coner explained some of your history together so I thought we should talk. whole thing is messed up but I don’t want to cause any agro between us,
Me: Hey, I’m so glad you are potentially his bond. Coner is good guy and deserves someone like you in his life. Are you with him now? I just found out what Molly did and wanted to call him if you are okay with that. The last thing I want to do is cause issues in your bond group.
I reply to her, Sunny is so sweet, I’d hate to make her feel like I was going behind her back to call Coner. Seconds. pass before she responds.
Sunny: Yes, please call him. He’s pretty torn up about the whole thing. I think only you can help him to forgive himself.
I blow out a breath and hold my phone up to the guys to let them read her message before I find Coner’s contact in the school directory and hit call. He answers on the second ring.
“Swan, is that you?” he asks sounding a little short of breath.
“Yes, it’s me. Mr Collins explained everything. How are you?”
“Hell, I don’t know. My head is up my arse right now. I can’t believe I was so stuold. How could I not know what was happening?” he sighs.
“That’s the thing with compulsion, you usually have no idea,”
“I did know something wasn’t right though. I should have come to you and told you, maybe you could have helped me,” his voice sounds vunerable.
“Don’t be too hard on yourself about that. To be honest I doubt I would have believed you then. I only found out about all this stuff a few months ago. If you’d have told me a year ago that Molly was using mind control to make you cheat on me I would have thought it was the worst excuse ever,‘
“Yeah, you’re right. You’d have probably checked me into the room next to your mum,” he half laughs, “How is she by the way? When I heard you were missing I tried to contact her and the facility told me she had been moved,”
“She is great, but Coner she wasn’t crazy, well, she was, but it was because she knew what I was. Her story started very similar to yours actually, but I’ll explain all that when see you,” I tell him and that thought makes my gut
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twist. Would Coner have turned out like my another eventually?
“Shit, Swan, that’s bad,” he curses and I quickly change the topic because I’m not sure if he knows that one of his biological parents probably did the same to his other blological parent. That also gives me another idea, another lead we can follow.
“How is your new room?” I ask
“It’s not bad, it’s basic, but better than my college dorm,”
“I doubt you’ll be there long, when the seer confirms Sunny is your bond then you’ll move to an apartment with her group in Saphire,” I smile at the thought, even though know he can’t see it.
“That would be strange, but Sunny is amazing, and her bonds, Damien and Seb are pretty cool too. They’ve been a massive help today,” his voice is instantly more chipper at hist the mention of Sunny.
“I’m happy for you. Sunny and her group are great, you’ll be a good fit with them,
“I hope so. When can I see you? I have some things I want to say and I’d rather do It face to face,” he asks; his tone a little nervous.
“I’m not sure, as soon as my heat is done I guess,” I shrug
“That heat thing is wild huh? I’m still trying to wrap my head around it,” he chuckles.
“You and me both,” I laugh.
“This whole Grey thing is insane. I keep thinking I’m going to wake up from this crazy dream soon. I feel like I’m living inside of a movie,” he snorts.
“Yeah, I’m still waiting to wake up too,” I say and Theo pokes me in the side with a scowl making me squeal, Theo’s scowl turns into delighted interest. He’s just discovered how ticklish I am, shit. “Coner, I have to go but you can text me whenever. I’ll see you in a few days,”
“Okay, see you soon. Thanks for calling and erm…. have fun he says awkwardly before ending the call.
“If this is a dream then you better not wake up, because I will come to the human realm and hunt your sweet little ass down,” Theo grumbles and Luke and Axel make sounds of agreement.
“You better had, I’ll be so pissed if I wake up back in the human realm and none of this ever happened,” I shake my head. I wouldn’t be pissed, I’d be destroyed. “I need to call Mason, I had an idea about how we might find some of the parents of Greys born in the human realm,”
“Call him, they probably only just left the academy,” Luke says.
“What’s wrong?” Mason answers on the first ring.
“Oh, erm… nothing. I just had an idea and wanted to share it with you and Mr Collins,” I say, a little taken aback at his abrupt way of answering the call.
“Let me put you on speaker,” he says. “Okay, go ahead,”
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“So I was thinking, Coner’s parents died when he was a child. He was told it was a car accident but he always suspected there was more to it. 1 know something happened to Molly’s parents too because she was in th foster home as Coner. I think if we look into suspicious deaths and mental illness similar to my mum’s case we may find that some of those people have Grey children,” I explain. The phone is silent for a beat.
“It’s worth looking into, but I still can’t reach my police contact. I may need to visit the human realm and check in on them. In the meantime, I have some other contacts that may be able to look into hospital records. Can you make a list of what exactly we are looking for?” Mr Collins asks.
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“Yes, I…” my words cut off with a groan as my heat flares.
“We will call you back,” Theo says snatching the phone and ending the call.
