button. “I think it’s time to work full speed guys. The meeting is only a couple of days away.”
We each got a couple of pages and started to go through them. We took turns asking one another if a date and what happened there meant anything to them, but none of them did.
“We need help,” Cheng said early Saturday morning. We’d spent an entire night searching and came up with nothing.
“What kind of help?” I asked.
“Leave this to me,” he said. “But first we all need to sleep.”
We agreed and went to bed. I felt bad for Blake. Ever since they had sedated him, I no longer had a feeling of wanting to kill him. It was gone and a part of me was ashamed of how badly I’d wanted him dead.
I fell asleep and hoped that I would wake up with Lucian again, but nothing. If a month felt like a day, I’d probably see him again next month, which was eons away.
The three of us woke up around three. Becky made us all a mean cup of coffee before going to the library to meet Cheng.
I couldn’t help but stare when we found Tabitha sitting next to him.
“Are you insane?” Becky hissed.
“She won’t tell, but she can help.”
Tabitha looked at me. “Just as long as you promise not to kill him.”
“I said I’ll try my best to help find a way to stop him from turning. When he’s dark and destroys everything, I can’t stand by and watch, Tabitha.”
“Swear you will help,” she spat.
“I’ll do everything in my power,” I grunted back.
“Fine.” She turned her chair and started typing away. She came to the website of the Wall and archives.
“We already tried that,” both Becky and I said.
Cheng held up his hand.
“Please, you haven’t done shit yet,” Tabitha said.
Cheng suppressed his smile and I stared at him.
He tapped his forehead and I watched Tabitha typing away codes and keys. “What are you doing?”
“Shush, for Blake, I’ll do anything. Now shut up, I need to concentrate.”
“She’s hacking into the system,” I mouthed at Cheng.
He nodded.
We all just stared at her as she typed away like a crazy person. The codes appeared and disappeared followed by more codes and in ten minutes she stopped. Another archive file filled the screen.
“Tada,” she said and I stared at her. “What do you want, what is that date again?”
“23rd of August. No year.”
“First just a name and now no year.”
I rolled my eyes at her knowing she was referring to when she’d tried to help find my dad.
There were six August dates and two that landed on the 23rd.
“Matt entered on the one, and someone named Tanya Le Frey exited on the other one,” Tabitha said.
We all cheered and the entire library shushed us. We giggled as we flinched and went back to silence.
“Tanya Le Frey, I guess.” Tabitha sounded sarcastic and I found Becky shaking her head softly.
“So the answer does lie with Tanya. Lucian was right.”
They all looked at me.
“You know what I mean,” I said, hoping they didn’t see through that one either. “Can you find a picture of Tanya?” I asked Tabitha.
Tabitha didn’t reply but she typed away like mad. She stopped and we all stared at the computer watching the codes disappear.
“What is it?” Cheng asked.
“I don’t know. It is un-hackable. I’ve never seen anything like this,” Tabitha answered as she tried one more time. We watched again as her codes disappeared. “Whoever this Tanya was, they didn’t want anybody to know about her.”
“Yeah, we know,” Becky said in a sarcastic tone.
Tabitha just glared at her. “You need me for anything else?” She looked at Cheng.
“Nope, that’s it.”
“Remember our deal, Cheng.”
“I’ll remember.”
She got up and walked away.
“What deal?” I asked.
“Don’t worry about it. It won’t come to that.”
We now knew that Tanya Le Frey was the key to Lucian’s foretelling and Blake’s destiny. In what way, George and Becky still had to find out.
HE BOARD MEETING was set for this afternoon and we all worried about the outcome.
Cheng gave them a really good reason to give to the board members, but if they didn’t see fit to grant permission to go on this quest, then they wouldn’t even reconsider it. The truth was far from the reason though.
“I wish we had a stupid foretelling inside that book,” Cheng said.
My head snapped to him. “Why?”
“Because then they don’t have a choice.”
“Really?”
“It’s linked to Paegeia, Elena. Everyone who has a foretelling inside that book has to make it known the