(eng) Kyra Dune - Dragon Within 03 by Riding the Wave

Author:Riding the Wave [Wave, Riding the]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

I thought when the plane touched down in Los Angeles I would feel better. Safer. The people chasing me had no reason to think I’d go back to the place I’d once been so desperate to escape. It made no sense. They would expect me to be running away from the compound, not toward it.

Only I didn’t feel better at all. I felt worse. I was terrified. Can you blame me? I was about to break back into the place where I was chained to a bed. Where they tried to starve my brother to death. Where they thought murdering newborn children was completely justified. And I was taking my cousin there. The second most important person in my life. If something happened to him I didn’t know how I could ever live with myself.

We got off the plane and gathered together in a tight little group there in the terminal. Nobody said anything. We might as well have been strangers, except for Trudy and Steve who were practically glued together at the hand. Was I jealous of them? Maybe, a little. It would have been nice if I could have had Zack to cling to but I couldn’t even catch his eye. He was too busy sizing up everyone in sight like he was trying to figure out what kind of threat they might be.

I cleared my throat. Someone had to say something even if it was only to state the obvious. “We should see about finding a hotel,” I said. “It would be better if we wait until dark to sneak into the compound. I think.”

“Sounds like a plan to me,” Hannah said. “But I still say you should let me come with.”

“Three of us going is enough,” Zack said. “More than enough, actually.”

“What do you mean?” I asked as we wove our way across the airport.

Zack barely glanced at me. “I see no reason you need to come.”

“What?” I came to a complete stop. “You don’t think I should come? Are you serious?”

The rest of our group had to stop as well, or leave me behind. Zack turned to face me. “I need Curtis to break into the encrypted file, but I’m not sure what you’ll be doing.”

Wow, that hurt. How would you feel if the person you were in love with basically said you were completely useless? “I’m not letting my cousin go there with you alone.”

“You don’t trust me?” If I didn’t know better, I might have thought his feelings were hurt.

“Why don’t you want me to go?” I asked.

“It’s dangerous,” he said. “And the fewer of us who go in, the more likely we are to come back out alive.”

“What if you get in trouble?” I crossed my arms. “If you’re caught you can’t possibly get Curtis out of there by yourself. You’ll need my help.”

“Help?” He snorted. “You can’t even control your own powers. How could you possibly help?”

I could not believe he would say such a thing to me. Especially after what happened with that woman in the bathroom.

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