RAVEN ✔️

Chapter 38 ✔️

**** A/N: I apologize if it feels too rushed, but hopefully, these last chapters make up for it. Yes, the story is coming to an end soon. Anyhow, enjoy this chapter. ****

• Chapter Thirty-Eight •

Malakai's Point of View

After graduation, Blaise started to act weird. He stopped coming over to his own house and left Clay and me to do all the work. When we did see him, it was always briefly. Today was one of those days where he just came in and out of his office.

"Nice to see you here, Blaise," I say as I caught up to him just before he got in his car.

"I'm swamped, Malakai, but I'll be back in a few. Continue to do what you've been doing with the crew. I know that I can trust you with the deals and such." Blaise states with a stoic expression and gets in his car and speeds away.

Well, that's more than what I usually get. I think to myself as Clayton pulls me inside the mansion abruptly.

"You have to see this," Clay states as he forces me to take a seat in front of his laptop.

"What is it?" I ask him as he furiously logged onto his laptop and begins to reveal tons of surveillance footage.

I tried taking in everything that I could, but Clay was opening multiple files that I couldn't register everything all at once. After a minute or two, Clay begins to play the very last footage up until the very last footage he had.

Every single person that meant something to the people I cared about were taken in broad daylight. Shane was in every abduction except for two, but he couldn't be in two places at once.

"Who sent this to you?" I ask, trying to contain my anger inside. "Your sister did, she called and said not to dismiss the files she was sending over and to make sure you watched everything," Clay told me as I questioned his information. 

"My sister? She doesn't know anything about this, though," I say, but he shakes his head. "Blaise told her, that's all she told me before she hung up on me." He finalized as I gently closed his laptop before I got up and threw the chair I was in across the room.

How could he risk my sister's safety by exposing her to this? To say that I was mad was the most understatement of the decade. "I didn't see Gavin, Declan, or Raven being taken away. Why is that, are they safe?" I ask Clayton as I fist my hands tightly to restrain myself from causing more damage.

"Nothing yet, Alessandra gave me access to the satellites. It looks like she's kept tabs on everyone for quite some time. She's been knowing for a while, Malakai," Clay speaks up as I punch the nearest wall to me.

If my eye colors could change, they'd be red, and I'd be surrounded by fire. That's how angry I am that Blaise kept me in the dark about everything while my sister played a part in this.

"Can you track where she is? See if she's with Blaise when you have their location let me know." I say and storm off to the training room to blow off some steam.

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Raven's Point of View

My uncle and aunt were oblivious to both Everette's and Cora's disappearance. As for I and Declan, well, they thought we'd left after graduation. Andrea, of course, oblivious to this as well, probably thought Leah was having the best time of her life with Everette. The surprise that everyone was going to have once this was over was quite the biggest shocker that they'll ever face.