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the gun. He fell on both knees and waited for the cops to
come and apprehend him.
    Even more
cars were on the way. There were enough cops on the ground for an entire siege.
    Zane remained
frozen. There was nothing he could do. No move he could make to save Stacey
from what was about to follow.
    She hadn’t
been recognized yet. But soon she would be. The police were talking to her.
Asking her about what happened. Even now, Zane could hear Dennis’s voice rising
above the crowd:
    “She’s the
criminal! Not me! She killed her friend!”
    They’d quiet
him down eventually. But not before they asked Blossom a few questions. Like,
what her name was.
    Zane turned.
    He couldn’t
live through this anymore.
    A total and
absolute failure on his behalf.
    “Wherever you
wind up beautiful Blossom,” he whispered into the night, “I’ll be there to be
break your fall.”
    Then he stepped
away. And disappeared into the darkness.
    With all the
wishful thinking in the world.

 
    CHAPTER
NINETEEN
     
     
    Stacey was now in an interrogation
room located on the fifth floor of the City Justice Department. Cops were
watching her sit patiently at her desk from behind two way glass. There was a
tri-pod pointed at the table. A security camera in the corner of the wall.
    She was lost
now. She was afraid. Why hadn’t Zane come to rescue her? He could have blown
fire at the cop cars and swooped her from the police’s clutches. It was
possible. He’d done similar before. Why hadn’t he now?
    Because
innocent people would have died…
    That much was
true. It wasn’t the police’s fault that she’d been tried and convicted. Then
again maybe it was, but it wasn’t the fault of those individuals who had just
rescued her from that psycho Dennis.
    He was in the
holding cells below. Jasmine had also been brought in as a witness.
    But the
police knew who she was now. She hadn’t denied it. There was no point.
    “Just put me
in prison,” Stacey had told them glumly. “It’s not the end of the world. I can
work on my appeal. Maybe I’ll get out in a few years. With a bit of luck.”
    There was no
alternative.
    Her initial
interrogation had concluded about ten minutes ago. She figured there could be
more detectives back to ask her to explain what happened to Zane, but she
wasn’t going to give them anything. She wouldn’t give him up. As far as the
other dragons were concerned he was dead, and she intended to keep it that way.
    She hoped he
was okay now.
    The door to
the room opened. Stacey recognized who it was. The unnamed, dark skinned guard
she’d reached out to when she first came to the Island.
    “You,” she
murmured.
    “Hello,
Stacey. Do you mind if I sit down?”
    “Okay.”
    The guard
took his seat in front of her. “I’m here to help you,” he said.
    “How?”
    “I’ve been
looking into your case. I’m personally surprised that you were convicted of the
crime, which appears as though it could possibly be a suicide.”
    “That’s what
I’ve been saying all along,” Stacey said.
    “I found
something out about the night your room mate died. Someone came to visit her
only hour prior –”
    The door
burst open and three other guards entered.
    The Head of
Security stepped forward. “Can we wrap this up please, Walter?”
    Walter
turned, smiled nervously. “Sure thing, boss.”
    He stood up
and motioned to Stacey.
    She rose from
her chair. “What’s going on?”
    “You said you
wished to be transferred to prison. We’re here to collect you.”
    “Oh,” Stacey
sighed. “Alright.”
    They then
marched her out of the interrogation room. They went through numerous corridors
and passageways until they reached an elevator.
    Stacey
watched the Head Guard’s finger as it moved across the keypad.
    Which way
were they going? Up or down? Down or up?
    “I’m so
sorry,” Walter whispered in her ear.

 
    CHAPTER
TWENTY
     
     
    The chopper was waiting their arrival
on the roof of the building. Stacey’s knees went weak