Caught Between Two Blue Aliens - Celia Kyle Page 0,65

supposed to feel right now!” Jenna snapped. “I know they’ve got to be scared out of their minds. You guys must know something by now. Right?”

Angry, hot tears tracked down Jenna’s cheeks. She’d racked her brain, simultaneously trying to block out the stressful situation around her while also paying close attention to what the police officers were saying. The weirdest part was that they’d come barging into her apartment not long after she’d learned both Noah and Bea were missing. She hadn’t called the cops, so she assumed the school had placed the call? Or maybe the someone responsible for taking the kids? Or perhaps, she thought bitterly, the police were behind it at the behest of someone more powerful.

That was not such a farfetched idea, especially with all the bizarre shit going on recently. Everything seemed out of whack and nothing was normal anymore. She couldn’t push away the certainty that this all had something to do with Secretary Wells and his threats against her and her family.

“First of all, ma’am, we are under no obligation to tell you anything,” said a second cop. “And we do not yet have any new information.”

“We’re here to try and figure this out, just like you are,” said a third officer, with a slightly gentler tone.

Jenna was beyond consolation at this point, especially not from a bunch of strange men who, for all she knew, could be directly benefitting from the situation. She could only assume these guys were all on the secretary’s payroll. They were in on it somehow. She was sure. And even though they had supposedly come to help locate the missing kids, she had a feeling their true purpose was to keep her contained and control her reaction. By now, Jenna felt certain in her heart that there was no human left on the planet she could fully trust, besides Jade.

She didn’t understand it, though. Why was this happening? Why was she being punished? So far, she had not gone back on her promise to Secretary Wells. There was still almost a whole week before their first check-in. She’d followed his plan without issue, so why did he attack her by taking her siblings away?

“Could you try and retrace your steps for us?” One of the officers piped up.

Jenna whirled and shot him a withering glare. “They’re children, not a lost set of keys. I didn’t just forget them somewhere. I believe they’ve been taken from me.”

“Ma’am, we’re doing our best here, but you’re not giving us much information to go on,” said the uptight first cop.

“That’s because I don’t know anything! I sent the kids off to school. Then the school called to tell me they weren’t in class, and now they’ve just disappeared,” she recited, tears pricking her eyes again.

She left out the part where she felt sure that Secretary Wells had followed through on his threat to “lose” the kids in the foster care system. She had no idea what line she had crossed to incur this penalty, but she needed to figure it out. Fast. Before Noah and Bea were lost to her forever.

Just as one of the cops opened his mouth to question her all over again, there was a familiar sound outside—that unmistakable sound of a self-driving transport swooshing to a stop. Jenna darted to the open window, her eyes going wide at what she saw three stories below. It was a Drokten vehicle, and it looked suspiciously like the same one she’d used with her Azi and Bahn just days earlier. Jenna held her breath, waiting to see who would emerge.

And then, out of the transport came Sevith, followed by Hiren, and then the kids.

“Oh my god!” Jenna pushed away from the window and rushed to the front door, shoving past a trio of burly, bored-looking police officers.

“Now, wait just a minute, miss!”

But Jenna was long gone.

She ran out the front door, darted down the hallway, and stepped into the elevator. “Come on, come on…” she murmured impatiently as it moved from floor to floor slower than molasses.

Sevith was the first person she’d called right after the school had alerted her to the fact that both Noah and Bea had never returned to their classes after first break. After a campus search, they’d been found missing. The only reason she didn’t also call Hiren was because Sevith said he’d take care of that too. This was how her life had changed. She didn’t call Jade at the first sign of trouble.