Engraved.

✔ Chapter 45

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Nathan's POV

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''Where the hell is she?'' Xavier asks in a panicked and worried tone.

''I can't find her,'' Ash says flailing his arms around as he acts to drop down on the floor due to the hard work we put in searching for Katrina.

''Neither can I,'' Jordan exclaims on the speaker phone.

Xavier looks at me with worry in his eyes and I state the truth by shaking my head. She is nowhere to be seen and the guests left a long time ago.

''Did you guys find her?'' Indiana asks as she and Aiden enter the picture.

Ashton shakes his head and Xavier gets up moving towards Aiden. Before Aiden can even defend himself a sharp crack noise is heard and Aiden stumbles back due to the impact of the punch delivered by none other than the guy who has been in love with Katrina since fourth grade.

''What the heck, dude?'' Aiden says as he hold his almost broken or probably broken jaw.

''If it wasn't for you, then she would have been here,'' Xavier says trying way hard to be calm.

''How the hell is it his fault?'' Indie screams at Xavier and before she can lunge at him, she is held back by Ashton.

''If only he wouldn't have let her out of her sight,'' Xavier says while cracking his knuckles.

Jordan enters the picture looking angry while he makes his way towards Indiana, looking dead serious.

''Why did you lie?'' Jordan asks in an intimidating voice and we watch her squirm.

''Wha-What do yo-you mea-mean?'' Indiana stutters and at that moment Jordan looks ready to strangle her, but he wouldn't hit a girl. I know him well enough to figure that out. Jordan sends a murderous look to Aiden when he ties to intervene. Well, I think that he wouldn't hit a girl...

''You know exactly what I mean, stop playing around,'' Jordan says and Indiana takes a step back.

''I was afraid,'' she states looking down.

''What do you mean?'' Ashton asks.

''Well, this girl talked to Katrina apart from another lady, last, so she should know where she is,'' Jordan states and Xavier moves forwards.

''Where is she?'' Xavier asks in a dangerous low tone and Ashton holds Aiden back.

''I don't know, she was drinking white wine when I last spoke to her,'' she says looking him in the eye.

Xavier takes a step towards her and she breaks eye contact. Nothing like Katrina. Xavier towers over Indiana like a giant and her eyes give away that she is afraid.

Just as she is about to say something the chandelier on top of us shakes violently and my first instinct is to take a step back and so do the others. The chandelier swings once more from the right to the left.

It was fine just a moment ago.

Taking one more vigorous swing, it falls down and Aiden picks Indiana up moving her out of the way. She seems to be paralyzed and the ground shakes, not too vigorously but not too gentle either.

The ground shakes and cracks are seen, water seeping through the cracks, somehow while Indiana stays right where she is, not moving an inch. Soon enough the quaking of the earth stops and a tear slips down Indiana's eyes and the rest of us, share a look.

She falls to her knees and her hair changes its colour, slowly going from platinum blonde to ash pink. As her hair changes, her eyes so too going from green to Hawaiian blue. Amazed by the sight that I saw in front of me, to say I get shocked when the tables and chairs float in the air would be an understatement.

Indie's hands in her hair, the tables and chairs in the air and the way Aiden looks at her tells me that he knows something.

"What's wrong?" Aiden asks just as she gets up, wiping her tears forcing herself to be alright. The tables fall to the ground along with the chairs and I am almost thankful that the guest weren't present right now.

"We need to find her, now," she says looking at Xavier in the eye and she closes her eyes.

Immediately, we are surrounded by a dome. A dome and it replays exactly what had happened before, when Indiana and Katrina were talking.

"What the..." I manage to say.

Tilting our necks we observe the scene as Katrina makes her way to the corridors after talking to a lady who was wearing a blue gown. Taking the wrong turn to which I assume, because in the previous scene it was shown as if she wanted to go to the washroom, someone pushes her into a room and the dome goes black.

Lines appear on Indiana's forehead as she tries to replay what exactly happened for the face but right now it doesn't happen.

Satisfied with the information we have, once the dome stops surrounding us, all including Indiana who removes her heels make a run for the room which Katrina is supposed to be in.

Xavier leads us as he passes through the once crowded room and his eyes determined to get what was his back.

When we reach the door, we hear no sound and Xavier bangs on the door. He keeps on banging until his fists bleed and the door cracks open and just as we enter, we see Katrina.

Katrina lying on the floor with her back towards the wall. Her eyes are closed and Indiana watches her. Seeing her and registering the information of Katrina lying there unconscious takes sometime to process in her brain.

And when it does, she runs to her bending down, checking her pulse.

Xavier is looking at her body, and he has no idea what to do. I know what he is thinking. If he wouldn't have invited her, she wouldn't have been lying like that.

As my eyes turn back to the door, my eyes catch soemthing and I stare at a soft light blue silk fabric attached on the hinges of the door.

I make my way towards it, gently picking it up and that's when I realize that the girl who pushed her might have been her own sister, Abigail Grey.

She came here with Ashton and went without him. Of course, it would have been that bitch. I never really did like her.

"She's alive, but for how long, I can't tell that," Indiana says and Xavier breathes out a sigh of relief.

Who is Katrina and why do the most horrible thing happen to her and only her?

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A/N : Sorry I haven't been updating, I was busy with a lot of stuff. Really sorry.

I hope you liked this chapter. We have some what 20-23 more chapters to go for this book.

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