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Darcy was staring at her phone screen, her eyes wide.
"How the hell did that happen? I thought everything was sorted out." She turned to Larry, who shrugged.
"I told you, you’re going way too deep into this," he said, pacing from one corner of the room to the other.
"How did he end up killing Kesha?" She grimaced at the news again. She had left her spies around, but they couldn’t reach the well because Helanie and her friends had taken over the area. Still, the seer had managed to let her know that Kaye had freed himself from his curse.
But instead of killing Helanie, he had killed Kesha.
"And to think it was Kaye who first broke the curse. It should tell you something, you always discredited his abilities," Larry said to Darcy, who rolled her eyes at being scolded.
"Her father and uncle will kill us." Darcy waved the phone in her hand.
"Well, they’ll never find out who killed her. There was nobody there. We’re the only ones who know Kaye did it." Larry hissed, reminding her that even their spies couldn’t get close enough to the well to eavesdrop.
"Just tell me something," Darcy asked. "Where are the others? Where is my son Maximus? Where are Emmet and Norman?"
Larry shrugged again. "How am I supposed to know? Helanie’s friends are everywhere in the woods. They’re not letting anyone close, and there have been no sightings of Emmet."
Larry was frustrated with her. He had warned her not to make mistakes, not to go too deep into this. He already knew her actions had cursed her kids. What bothered him was that she kept intervening. He knew they would mess up somehow.
"It’s alright," Larry uttered later on. "I already got CCTV footage from some shops and the roads. I found Emmet and Maximus together in the car, but at some point Maximus was spotted in the woods in his lycan form. I’m already on it."
Larry suddenly tried to comfort her after realizing he had been giving her a hard time.
"Then find my son. It’s all getting messy. I didn’t know it would go downhill this badly. I had a meeting with Kesha. I taught her everything perfectly. How the heck did she screw up so badly?" Darcy was panicking, partly because her sons had cut ties with the mansion and even caught her spies, kicking them out.
Now she had to rely on Charlotte, and Azura for news. Jessica not so much, she had slipped out of her hands when Norman warned her not to stay in contact with his mother.
Suddenly, Larry’s phone started to beep. He checked it and took a deep breath.
"Okay, our warriors have spotted Maximus. They’re trying to lure him into a specific area rigged with laser beams. All we need to do is get Helanie to that place," Larry suggested.
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