A Dangerous Game by Madeline Dyer

Author:Madeline Dyer [Dyer, Madeline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ineja Press

Esther hands me a spare pair of dark glasses, and, somehow, we make it out of the compound with no problems at all. I don’t feel anything.

We reach the truck. Everyone is there waiting. Bea’s got her ear defenders on, and she’s sitting in the corner of the truck bed, rocking back and forth. Finn’s trying to talk to her, but she keeps shaking her head.

Mila’s in the truck bed, and I know Bea’s trying not to look at her. They’ve wrapped her in a tarpaulin. I expect to feel the need to brace myself when I look at her—my baby sister, whom I was supposed to protect—but I don’t.

She’s sleeping. It’s fine.

I climb into the truck bed too. The cab is already full with Rahn, Kayden, and Sajo.

The engine starts. We drive away.

I can’t concentrate. My head is just…full. It’s pounding.

No one looks at me. No one talks. They’ll all have seen the bullet wound, and everyone knows the Enhanced don’t use guns. Keelie or Sajo? That’s what they’re thinking. Sajo had the gun when the others arrived, didn’t he? Or did they see him take it from me? I can’t think. My thoughts are too busy. We’ve lost Untamed before in raids and rescues—at the hands of the Enhanced—but those deaths were accidental. When the Enhanced Ones were trying to restrain them and accidentally cut off their oxygen for too long. Or something like that. Those types of deaths used to happen a lot.

But everyone will know that Mila didn’t die like that.

The gunshot wound was visible. And there was one gun between Sajo and me. Him or me, that’s what they’ll be thinking. Or maybe Sajo told them what happened when I was with Red?

And I’m sure they can see that the blood is on me. The look of horror in Bea’s eyes told me she saw the mark of death on me, clinging to me.

My ears crackle as I swallow. But it doesn’t feel… No, I don’t feel…feel what? Angry? Upset? Guilty? I just feel numb. Numb like it’s not setting in now—it was before, when I went after Red, but not now.

Hell.

I killed her. Sajo knocked me, but I pulled the trigger.

No, she’s sleeping. You’ll see her again, when you’re both awake.

And Red? He could be dead now too, could’ve bled out.

I let out a shaky breath. We’re driving fast, and the wheels churn dust up behind us. I think we’re going in a roundabout way back to Nbutai. Corin sits by the tailgate, with a pair of binoculars, looking out for any signs of us being followed.

“You okay?” Finn asks, and his voice makes me jump. “Heard one tried to get you?”

“One had already got her,” Esther says. “If I’d been a second later, he’d have had an augmenter down her throat.”

I try to tune out their voices. They’re talking in that excited tone that we nearly always use after a successful raid. But this wasn’t a raid, and it wasn’t successful. Why are they talking like that?

I gulp.

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