Seduced by My Childhood Sweetheart’s Brother
Chapter 189

189- Detention and deserving

“Lady, can you tell me your name?” She asks quietly. She sounds like she doesn’t actually expect meto answer. Which is fair I guess, I’m not even exactly one hundred percent sure that I can. My head isaching. But that’s the question she asked and I am going to do my best to answer. It takes me a minuteto manage it and I watch as Kiara’s face falls even further with every second she doesn’t hear from me.Finally I succeed.

“Ryann.” For a second, I don’t think it worked. Kiara doesn’t react and I sigh through my aching headand prepare to try again.

“That’s a nice name. Ryann… I didn’t want to believe it, I was hoping I was wrong but… I’m pretty surethat my mum and dad are dead. They weren’t moving when I was taken away. I was hoping they werejust asleep or under a spell but… if that were true

“ould have come to get me by now, Daddy would have gotten me out of here and then probably lockedme up in a tower like some fairytale character to make sure that no one ever gets to me again.” Thereare tears in her eyes and she lets out a whimpery sort of chuckle before a deep sigh.

“You don’t talk much, I don’t even know how you talk to me at all. But I do know that you’re nice. You’rea good person. I can feel it how you want to help me. I think you might be the only person I have leftthat cares about me. You’re my only friend now. I don’t think I really deserve a friend anymore… butyou’re still here and I really want you to come replace me okay? Ryann… I’ll be your best friend foreverand ever if you can get me out of here.” She promises. Oh the poor darling. How can she think that shedoesn’t deserve a friend? What have they done to her? Everytime I speak to her I love this child moreand more. I’ve never even spoken to her in person but I can’t imagine feeling closer to her than Ialready do. I try to send reassuring vibes towards Kiara but I have no idea if it helps. I sit with her a littlelonger before I return to myself. At some point, I tipped over sideways and I am now lying on the

bedroom floor. Oops. It’s probably a good thing Bellamy hasn’t come upstairs. He would not be thrilledto replace me lying on the ground. Still, I need to go tell him what I learned. I try to get to my feet butimmediately fall back into the pillows. I crawl over to the bedside table to grab the glass of waterBellamy gave me earlier. Okay, I’ll tell him in a minute when the world. stops spinning.

I stumble down the stairs and Bellamy must hear me coming because he is waiting for me in the hall atthe bottom of the stairs. It’s probably a good thing because I trip over the third stair from the bottom andaccidentally launch myself at him. He catches me easily.

“Well hello to you too.” He greets me with a grin and I can’t help but smile back. It doesn’t last though.

“I spoke to Kiara again. Well, mostly she spoke to me. But she knew I was there.” I tell him. Bellamygently lifts me off of my feet and carries me to the living room. I’d complain but I’m still a little dizzy andI just can’t be bothered He sits on the couch with me in his lap.

“What did she tell you?” He asks.

“A lot of things. Most of it sad. She said I’m the only friend she has, and she begged me to come replaceher.” My voice breaks as I tell him and Bellamy hugs me tighter.

“I did learn some useful stuff though. Cheryl’s partner is definitely a woman. Kiara kept referring to thepartner as “her‘ and ‘she‘. Also, Kiara is spelled. I’ll have to ask Cam more about it, but she said theydid something to her and she can’t take more than two steps away from the spot they leave her in.” Iexplain. Bellamy nods and I can see he’s contemplating the implications.

“We couldn’t sneak in and just take her. We need to deal with the partner first. We might need a Witchtoo in order to

189- Detention and deserving

break the spell.” He observes and I nod my agreement.

“Yeah, oh she also tried to describe where she’s being kept. It sounds like a basement or something.She described it as having stuff like the Witch shops do. So it has to be the Witch partner’s homeright?”

“Probably. That’s useful to know. Almost definitely a Witch, definitely female and probably keepingKiara in her own house. I’ll let Alex know. He’s currently searching through Cheryl’s computer lookingfor… Well, anything useful really.” He texts the new information to Alex. I take the time to call Cam. Shedoesn’t answer my call but does text back immediately.

Cam- Hey sorry, there’s a huge party booking here and it’s super loud. I wouldn’t be able to hear aphone call. I can text? Or I can call you back in a few hours.

Ryann- That’s alright. Texting should be fine. I managed to speak with Kiara again. She told me theyspelled her or something. I was hoping you could help me identify it, maybe tell me how it can bebroken?

Cam–Sure, tell me what the spell is doing and I’ll do my best to answer.

Ryann- It stops her from running away. She says she can’t take more than two steps in any directionfrom the place they left her. I think it kind of makes her fall over or something if she does?.

Cam- Oh that’s an easy answer. A basic detention spell. Mostly used for prisoners, but most parentslearn it and it’s occasionally used to give overly rambunctious kids a time out. Not something I approveof. There’s a whole debate about it. Magically enforced punishments that is.

Cam- It should be fairly harmless, and usually they only last a few hours maximum. Less if you intend itto be short lived. If it’s going for longer than that, the Witch would need to re–cast it regularly. Probablya couple times a day at least. At night too. Maybe every six hours if the Witch is reasonably powerful?It’s more used for prisoner transports since it’s not practical to have to spell someone that much.

Ryann- Can it be broken? Or do we have to wait for it to time out? If we tried to take her away from thatspot could we

do it?

Cam- The spell is to stop someone from leaving. It doesn’t stop them being taken. If you were to pickher up and carry her it wouldn’t stop her. When you put her down she would be stuck in the spot youplace her until the spell runs out though. So you could carry her from danger, but she couldn’t run awayof her own volition.

I am horrified. Why would anyone do that to a child? And she’s been trapped like that for weeks now!The poor thing. I am going to get her free and make sure that she is never trapped that way ever again!

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