Kept Secret

Chapter 23

Lia~

I push Henry off me with a disgruntled sigh. I shouldn't have done that, I shouldn't have kissed him. "told yah" Raeya rolls her eyes at me and I feel a sense of guilt for shutting her out. She was right, the crystals are affecting us big time and it's time to get out of here, to hell with this storm. "Henry," I try to get his attention but he ignores me and stares at the ceiling. "Henry?" again no response.

"HENRY!" He yelps at the sound of my voice and finally turns to me. "We need to get out of here as soon as possible." He nods at me but keeps staring at the storm outside which has gotten even worse. At this rate, we may be seeing snow soon.

"How are we going to get out of here? The storm is getting worse and there's no way to run through that without either running into something, getting lost, or dying from frostbite. Frankly, I'm surprised it's not snowing yet." And of course, because nature loves us so much it starts snowing right after what he says. "You've got to be kidding me!" He runs his fingers through his hair and growls in frustration.

I contemplate the situation. I don't have many options at this point besides using my magic to get us out of here and that would mean telling Henry what I am. As the queen, I have a responsibility to protect my kingdom and that includes my team so I'll have to do this and deal with the consequences later, "Henry, I'm about to do something that may shock you but don't freak out, okay." He reluctantly nods his head and gives me a hesitant look. Firstly I need to find the rest of the team and then I can teleport all of us to the docks, or better yet I can take us all to the territory of vampires.

Here goes nothing...

"loc" (location). Golden Light flows from my fingertips illuminating the walls of the cave with different symbols, landmarks of the surrounding areas. Henry gasps at the sight of the map in front of me but I pay no attention to him. The map shows our location and starts tracing patterns to the location of the team. They're about half a mile out meaning that we'll either have to run that far or...

"Henry, hold on to me." he grabs my hand and I chant the spell, sending us to their location.

***

I open my eyes to see my team gaping at me like a school of fish out of water. I give them a sheepish smile and Dominic suddenly bursts out laughing. I follow his gaze to Henry who's still clinging to me like a frightened toddler. I pry him off me and roll my eyes at him. We seem to be in some sort of underground bunker from the looks of it and it seems to be long since abandoned. "We need to get out of here and fast so for all those who haven't figured it out yet, yes I have magical powers people, get over it."

I have to consider my options here, either risk it by teleporting all of us at once or draining most of my energy by creating a portal, either way, I won't be in any condition to fight anyone afterward. There are still rogue vampires in the surrounding areas and the storm is getting worse, "Okay guys listen up! I'm transporting us all to the docks on their territory then from there we'll run a stealth operation to get them out. I won't be in any condition to fight because the magic will drain me but I will be assisting you guys from where I'll be hidden. You each know your strengths and have gone over the prints for the king's compound multiple times so needless to say you all know what to do, get in, get them and get out. Any questions? " I look around and Dylan gives me a tentative look, " Yes Dyl?"

"When you say 'get them' you mean all of them right?" I slap my palm against my head and sigh. I can tell they're more than hesitant when it comes to saving Lucas and even more so when it comes to saving vampires but I need them to push those feelings aside. We have a mission and we can deal with the sentiments later.