Xavier's pov
My heart beat furiously as I ran through the forest, desperately searching for Emily and Mark. I knew something was wrong when I'd felt the mind link between us suddenly close, as if she had just erected a mental wall; I'd tried to calm myself down, to tell myself that maybe I was exaggerating, that nothing could have happened, but after twenty minutes of silence, in which neither she nor Mark had returned, I'd lost my mind, so my father, Franz, George, James, Paul, some of the guards, and I had run out to look for them.
I knew something had happened to her. I could feel it in my bones, even though, for some reason, I couldn't feel Emily - not her feelings, not whether she was close, nothing. It was as if she wasn't there.
But that's impossible, I thought. She must be s
