“How did you know?” I asked.
“We have a bond,” he said. “A connection.”
“What does that mean, exactly?” I asked.
“It means that one day soon, I’m going to claim you as mine.”
My cheeks heated and I could almost feel what it would be like to have his hot breath on my skin.
“All that’s going to have to wait,” Dr. Green said. “We have bigger problems.”
In front of us, the room flickered as if it weren’t real. As if it were on a bad television screen.
“What’s going on?” I asked.
“This is what happens when an entire building is held in a time stop and they didn’t know it had a basement.”
The flickering stopped abruptly and the three of us darted down the hall. Ahead, the magic police were on the ground.
The thief was gone.