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nothing would happen to her if he could prevent it.
    Thomas entered the room and sat at the head of the table. He
leaned over and gave Angelica a quick kiss on the cheek before straightening
himself in his seat and clearing his throat.
    “I am suspending your training for the rest of the day. I
suggest you get your rest because tomorrow will be a strenuous day. I have to
apologize for Xavier wasting your time this morning. He will no longer be
training you,” Thomas said as he began to fill his plate with food.
    “Who will be training us then?” Cora asked with her normal
curiosity.
    “I will figure out his replacement by tomorrow morning. Just
remember, this is not fun and games. You have a lot of learning to catch up on,”
Thomas told them in a stern voice.
    “Thomas, let them relax and enjoy their meal,” Angelica
admonished him with love in her voice.
    Both girls filled their plates like everyone else was doing
and didn’t say a word. Sage bowed his head and smirked without being noticed
and Liam’s eyes sparkled with silent laughter. Public admonishments by Angelica
were frowned on by Thomas, but she always ignored himand
did it anyway knowing he wouldn’t say anything about it.
    After a few awkward minutes of eating in silence, Cora and
Liam started chatting with each other in soft voices, Angelica and Thomas did
the same and after a few more minutes, the conversations all blended to
everyone talking, eating, laughing and enjoying their meal together. Viola’s
clouded emotional state even cleared a bit with the lighthearted meal, which
eased Sage’s worry some.
    A nagging feeling in his gut made Sage look up at the
entrance to the dining room just as Xavier filled the doorway, with an almost
evil look in his eyes. He was still blocked from Sage, but there was no
doubting the look on the other man’s faceas he
raised his hands and prepared to attack everyone seated at the dining table.

Chapter Four
     
    Viola’s head jerked up as Xavier was preparing to attack and
screamed, “Get down now!”
    She jumped out of her seat and threw her own attack towards
the doorway, pushing Xavier back into the hall. Not knowing how to control her
powers made her attack stronger than it needed to be and sent him crashing
through a table in the hall and smashing several priceless antiques.
    It took Viola a couple of minutes to calm herself down
enough to stop the attack. She looked around to make sure everyone else was
alright before racing out of the room to make sure Xavier wasn’t preparing to
attack them again.
    As she reached him, guards came flooding into the halls and
lifted the barely conscious man from the debris and carried him away without
saying a word.
    Viola stood there watching and breathing heavily. Adrenaline
was pumping through her veins and her heart was pounding loud enough to perform
in a marching band. She jumped when Thomas’ hand landed on her shoulder.
    “Those were good reflexes. I’m proud of you. I can’t wait to
see what you can do once you learn to control your abilities,” Thomas told
Viola, pride showing in his eyes.
    “Wow Vi! You really don’t hold back do you?” Sage said as he
walked up and put his arm around her. “Remind me never to get you mad at me.”
    Viola rolled her eyes. It seemed to be the one thing she was
doing the most of today and it was getting pretty annoying. She knew he was
only trying to calm her down by teasing like an older brother would do, but it
wasn’t working.
    “Why did he try to attack us?” she asked Thomas. “What is
going on?”
    “He was not happy that I removed him as your trainer, but
that much I knew already. I didn’t think he’d take it this far,” Thomas said,
uncertainty in his voice.
    “Sir, I noticed during our training session this morning
that his emotions were blocked from me, and they never had been before now. I
was going to try to do some investigating to figure out what had changed,
before all of this happened,” Sage