“You should answer the door, I know it's for you,” Mr Daniels says as I lift my head off his chest and frown at him in question. I slide off him, walking over to the door, and pulling it open to see my mum standing there, with Dad P right behind her.

“Mum, Dad?” I say, just before my mum pulls me to her and squeezes me tightly.

“Oh, Kennie, I swear I will kill Alaric for what he has done to my children,” she whispers, loud enough that Dad P hears and gives me a worried look as he steps closer, and puts his hand on my cheek.

“You have grown up so much, I can tell just by looking at you,” he says, and my mum finally lets me go so Dad P can hug me.

“Hello,” I hear Mr Daniels say and I turn to see him in the doorway.

“Would you like to come in, Mr and Mrs Crowe?” he asks, and I quickly wipe my tears away as my dad lets me go.

“Now you must be Mr Daniels, the one that called us and got us transport here in such short notice?” Dad P asks, walking around me and offering Mr Daniels a hand to shake. They introduce themselves and when Mr Daniels looks over at me, I mouth “Thank you,” at him.

“Mrs C?” East says behind Mr Daniels, who steps out the way to let my mother go to East. She hugs him tightly, and pulls back.

“Your mother is worried sick about you, now go to your room, and call her right now,” she says, and East loses all colour in his cheeks as he nods and walks away.

“Now, what is the plan for saving my son and making sure no one ever touches my daughter again?” my mum asks, her hands resting firmly on her hips.

“We finally have a location,” I hear one of my other dads say in the distance, and I turn to see Dad M and Dad L walking out from the woods. I run to them, hugging them both as they give me relieved looks.

“I want to ask how you are, but it seems like a stupid question,” Dad M asks, as I pull away from him.

“Not good, but a location? Do you know where Ry is?” I ask.

“Why don't we take this inside?” Mr Daniels suggests once more and this time we all go in, finding spots on the sofa to sit. East and Enzo come out the room, followed by Locke and Logan who all introduce themselves before finding walls to lean on near the chair I sit in. East sits on the arm of my chair, and Mr Daniels sits on the other one. My mum gives me a knowing look as she looks between all my guys and how close we all are, before winking at me, making me smile for the first time in a while.

“Now Kenzie, I don't want you to freak out when I explain this all to you? Okay?” Dad M asks, as East slides his hand into mine.

“Okay?” I question nervously. Telling someone not to freak out, actually just makes them freak out, so I never got the point of people saying that.

“We received images from a guard undercover with the rebels, who we thought was dead, showing us a rough location in a local shipping yard not far from here,” he says, and I smile before feeling confused.

“Wait, why would I freak out about that?” I ask and Dad L takes over.

“They also showed Kelly beaten and tied up.”

“No!” I shout, horror filling me as I stand up, and shaking my head in disbelief. Ryan wouldn't let that happen to Kelly, and if he couldn't stop it, what have they done to him?

“Show me the photos and then we need to go there right now!” I demand, and my parents all look at me.

“The rescue and attack party leaves tomorrow morning, but you will not be going,” mum says gently.

“I can’t stay here when she needs me!”

“I will go to get her and Ryan back, with some of the others. Your parents are right, you can't come and get captured. It's what they want,” Mr Daniels says, and my guys all mumble agreements.

“I know you're right, I just can't bear the thought of her dying while I stay here and do nothing,” I say, feeling useless because I know I can’t go.

“We are all going as well, and I will heal her as soon as I can,” Dad P says and my mum gets up, walking over to me.

“I will stay with you in the academy because I'm not a good fighter or healer. I want to go to save Ryan, but I know when it's not the time to be overprotective, and when it’s time to trust your partners,” my mum tells me before turning back to the rest of the room. “Let's go back to the main school and leave Mackenzie with her boyfriends to discuss this. I could use a drink,” she says and my dads all get up, kissing me on the cheek before leaving.