#Chapter 48 (Arina) – The Panic
“You can’t just leave again!” I cried to Jonathan as he was getting ready to run out the door.
“I can’t just let him die, Arina,” Jonathan yelled.
He was panicking and wasn’t thinking straight. We were all panicking. Erick, who had just gotten back from getting coffees, was blocking the doorway so Jonathan couldn’t get through.
“Graham said if any more outsiders enter Blackcrest, they would be killed on the spot,” Jonathan told us. Fear was rising in his tone as he tried to get through Erick.
“He left last night; he would be there by now,” Erick told him. “I’ll try linking him again.”
“His link hasn’t been going through. Which means something is wrong,” Jonathan argued.
I was out of bed and grabbing onto his arm; tears streaming down my face. I couldn’t let him leave again. I couldn’t lose him again. I had just gotten him back.
“Maybe he never went. Maybe he went home to Marian,” I suggested, trying to keep the fear out of my own voice.
