Awakening Book One of the Trust Series(79)

Caleb’s voice was weary. “Declan, it’s Lionel.”

Declan dropped the phone. In his haze, he heard Caleb yelling for him, but it did not fully register. “Declan? Declan! Are you there? Did you hear what I just said?”

Caitlyn rushed over, and picked up the phone. “Caleb? He is right here. Wait one moment. Declan?”

She placed her hand on his arm. “Oh my God. Declan, are you alright?”

Her touch took him out of the fog he was in. “Lionel. We have to go to my father now.”

“What? I’m not understanding.”

“There was a major security breach a few weeks back. I’ve had Caleb working on it. He was the one that discovered Garrett’s true identity and he just found out that Lionel is the one who gave the information to the Cine Tofa. We have to get to my father.”

“No. We have to go to the airport where both of them are.”

“If Caleb is correct, they could both be in communication with each other. Isn’t it convenient that they are meeting up with each other?”

She turned to him. “And what if they are not? I am not leaving this to chance. Either way, together we are stronger than the both of them.”

Caitlyn put the phone to her ear. “Caleb, get to where Jonathan McPherson is now. Interrupt the Tribunal.” She paused, and Declan was sure that she was listening to Caleb argue that they won’t let him in. “Look, I don’t care if they don’t let you in… make it happen. Do you understand? We are going after Lionel.”

He heard Caleb yelling through the phone. “What? Are you f*cking cra-”

She hit end on the call before he could finish and looked directly at Declan. “Are you coming with me or not?”

Declan did not need any time to think it over. “Yes. Yes I am.”





Chapter 23



Garrett walked down the jet’s stairwell after it landed on the tarmac. During the flight home, he had been told that a service car would pick him up and take him to Councilman McPherson since he was so insistent he do so.

The Councilman needed to be told that his closest ally, the person he trusted most only next to his son, was a traitor. Jonathan’s admin had insisted that he could not see him until the Tribunal was completed. But Garrett was relentless in his persistence; and if he needed to, he would wait until the Councilman walked right through that door.

He figured that he owed the Councilman that much. Jonathan had always held a soft spot for Garrett’s mother, and he fought for their asylum within the Trust when no one on else had. The rest of the Council was reluctant at best, but Jonathan upheld that it was the right thing to do. Then, when Garrett had come back from his hiatus with his tail between his legs, the Council had staunchly refused to let him back in. Garrett did not deny that he had been changed by the experiences, but the kind-hearted man then yet again convinced the Tribunal to override the Council’s ruling, giving him another shot. He had argued that Garrett had not even gone through the Awakening yet, he was still young.

So he owed the Councilman his loyalty. He may not feel that way about the Trust as a whole, but it would take a major act to make him betray someone who had shown in him so much faith.

Garrett walked through the hanger, the airport practically deserted. He said his goodbyes to the pilot as he walked towards the control tower in the opposite direction. A familiar black tinted window of a Trust sedan greeted him, without hesitation, he jumped in the cab, throwing his carry on in next to him.

“Take me directly to headquarters please.”

The doors locked as the sedan began to go down the worn road in front of them. “Of course, sir.”

Garrett froze at the sound of the voice that greeted him. Lionel. His mind buzzed, trying to figure out how Lionel could have possibly known that he was going to report his traitorousness to McPherson. The mission had not involved Councilman McPherson in any way that he had known about and Lionel would have no way of knowing. The only thing unusual was that he had advised he wanted a meeting with the Councilman but that could have been for one of a hundred reasons. He decided to pry further to determine Lionel’s intent.

Nonchalantly he inquired, “Lionel? Why are you picking me up?”

Garrett could practically feel that smirk that radiated from him. “Why to take you to see your father of course.”

At that comment, his blood ran cold. His mind raced, realizing that he did not know about his discovery after all, but at this point, it was completely irrelevant anyways, because Lionel obviously did not care, knowing that this could blow open his cover completely.