A Hundred Stolen Breaths (The Defectives Book 2) by Jamie Campbell

Author:Jamie Campbell [Campbell, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12: Reece

My watch said it was morning and I had to get up. All the muscles in my body screamed louder to stay asleep for a little while longer.

There were no windows in the room, buried deep underground. I missed the rays of sunshine streaming in and confirming what the clock was trying to say. It hadn’t even been a day and I was already restless being locked up in the bunker.

I had another reason to stay in bed.

Wren was still asleep.

She’d tried to sleep on the floor last night, insisting that she had slept on much worse and would be fine. There was no way I was going to let her do that. She seemed to have a complex about not being good enough for the basics of life.

Food. Water. A bed.

She acted subservient to everyone, trying to scurry around so she didn’t get in anyone’s way or cause any fuss.

It killed me. I didn’t know how to convince her that she was worthy, that nobody was as strong or as intelligent as she was. That she was more remarkable than most other humans in Aria.

I would have to keep working on it, show her she was wrong until she believed me. Getting her to take the bed was only the first step. In the end I’d just laid down on the floor and pretended to go to sleep. There wasn’t enough room down there for the two of us. I heard her sigh and climb under the bedcovers, a triumphant smile hidden on my face.

She looked peaceful when she was asleep, like the weight of the world wasn’t resting on her shoulders. Nobody looking at her asleep would guess just how difficult her life was.

I hoped her dreams were magical.

I hoped they were everything her life wasn’t.

Pulling myself into a sitting position, I stretched out and tried to make a plan for the day. I would have to check in with the other members of the Resistance, see if they had big ideas for me. Ones that didn’t involve sacrificing Wren in the process.

My eyes kept drifting back to the sleeping girl, making me smile every time. She deserved to sleep and get some rest. After everything Stone put her through, it must have been so difficult for her to keep going.

Just before we went to bed last night I managed to coax out everything that happened since I last saw her in the labs. She told me everything about the doctor and the guards at Stone’s complex. It must have been horrible for her to be drugged enough that she thought she was dying, only to wake up on an autopsy table a few hours later.

If I ever met this Doctor Wagstaff, I would thank him.

He saved Wren’s life.

Not me.

I didn’t want to think about what would have happened if he didn’t slip her that drug. I could never let those imaginations enter my mind or I would never be able to function properly again. It had been too close to becoming reality.

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