"Xan, I gotta go. I''m almost at the form," Austin said, picking up his pace.


    "Hold up-" kander tried to get more details, but Austin had already hung up


    "Damn ill" Xander nearly threw his phone across the court. "Where did that little punk go? What something happened to him? he thought


    The only reason Xander had feltfortable enough to y basketball was that he thought Cameron was safe at school. If he''d known, he wouldn''t have let Cameron out of his sight except for sses.


    A thought struck him like lightning ''Samuell Xander thought. It has to be Samuel!


    Xander inmediately called Austin back. "Austin, your brother Samuel is behind this, fn''t he? Send me his number. Now"


    Austin froze, the suggestion hitting him like a bucket of ice water. "Samuel he thought. Yeah, it has to be Samuel!


    Cam had been missing for three hours now, Samuel really is behind this Austin''s expression darkened as he thought. "They''s aplete ptycha?


    Austin quickly sent the number to Xander and begged, "Xan, please help Cam. Samuel is absolutely insaned


    "Tell me something I don''t know," Xander replied, ending the call immediately to dial Samuel instead.


    "Who''s this?" Samuel answered, stretched out on his hospital bed and ready to sleep. His broken ribs needed plenty of time to heal.


    Xander cut to the chase. "Samuel, did you take Cameron? Where is he? I swear if you''ve hurt him-


    Samuel frowned at Xander''s angry tone. "Who the hell is this?"


    "Does it matter who I am? I''m asking about Cameron."


    Samuel snorted, "How the hell am I supposed to know where Cameron is?"


    "So Cameron wasn''t taken by you?" Xander demanded,


    "I don''t have time for that punk," Samuel scoffed.


    Samuel had already been burned twice by Cameron. He might be ruthless, but he wasn''t stupid. Twice was enough. There wouldn''t be a third time. He wasn''t about to confront Cameron directly again.


    Instead, Samuel had sent people to stir up trouble with the Wace family. Now that Cameron was missing, it had to be the Waces who''d gone after him.


    Samuel''s eyes narrowed with satisfaction. His n to watch his enemies destroy each other was working perfectly.


    "It better not be you, or I swear you''ll regret it." Xander threatened before hanging up. He sprinted toward the boys'' dorm, moving sost that the dorm manager only caught a blur rushing past


    Meanwhile, Austin burst into Room 316. Bradley was already back.


    "Brad, did you find anything?" Elijah asked anxiously.


    "I checked the security footage. Cameron was taken by his parents and sister, Bradley reported.


    "Not Samuel?" Austin let out a massive sigh of relict. If Cam had fallen into


    Samuel''s hands, that would''ve been a disaster. Thank goodness it wasn''t him,'' he thought.


    "But why would Cam''s parents and sistke him? Didn''t they cut ties ready?'' Austin wondered.


    "So it was his parents after all," Elijah said. "What the hell do they want? We need to go to Wace Vi raht now.


    Bradley frowned. "Wace Vi is literally rubble now." Nobody knew where Martin and Heidi were staying,


    Elijah was speechless. Tubble? When did that happen? he thought.


    Just then, Xander came charging into the room.


    "Xander?" Bradley raised an eyebrow at his sudilen entrance.


    "It wasn''t Samuel who took Cameron, Xander said, catching his breath. "I just called to confirm,


    A guy like Samuel was too arrogant to bother lying about something like this.


    Austin nodded, "Xan, we already know. It wasn''t Samuel. Cam''s parents took him."


    Xander froze. "His parents?"


    Everyone knew Cam''s rtionship with his family was terrible. They couldn''t understand what they would want with him.


    Elijah''s face was etched with worry. "Brad, what do we do now?”