Flashback ( PDFDrive )

FIFTY-ONE
SILVENY ASKED FOR ME?” TAM murmured. “Why?”
“No idea,” Sophie admitted, trying to remember if Tam and Silveny
had ever spent any actual time together. “All I know is, she keeps
transmitting it over and over: ‘SOPHIE! KEEFE! TAM! HELP!
HURRY!’ ”
“Do you think the babies are hatching?” Dex asked.
Sophie reached up to rub her temples. “They’re not supposed to be.
But I can’t think of anything else Silveny would need.”
Not unless she let her mind imagine all kinds of terrifying things—
and she was trying very hard not to do that. There had to be a logical
explanation.
Silveny wouldn’t drag her into danger without any warning.
“But why would she want Keefe and my brother there, if this is
about the babies?” Linh wondered.
“Uh, she wants me there because she knows I’m awesome at
everything,” Keefe jumped in, “and she’s bringing in Bangs Boy
because she clearly needs to rethink her life choices.”
He smirked as he said it, but it looked super forced, and Sophie
knew he was only trying to ease her rising panic.
“We’re wasting too much time,” she realized. “Silveny wouldn’t
push for help like this if it wasn’t important, so we need to go—now.
Ro, since you’re right here, will you be our designated bodyguard?”