Beautiful Bargain by Jones Skye & Jones Skye

Author:Jones, Skye & Jones, Skye
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Milly: London Calling

We were in a van. A big white transit thing that Jackson and Doc had stolen and spent a day or two working on. In the back of the van were two lead-lined coffins. Where they had gotten such things, I had no idea.

The sun would be setting in about an hour, and we were roughly two hours away from London.

The few days after the night we all agreed on a loose plan had been spent pouring over maps, and for Angel and myself, hours of practice at honing my mind-reading.

We’d decided to start out when it was still light, meaning we would have as much dark as possible for cover for the vamps once we arrived in London. It meant as we drew near to the capital, we would have to run the gauntlet of any Foamers. I’d heard there were a lot more down here, which was why the city was heavily fortressed now.

Doc and I sat up front with Jackson who drove.

In the back were Ben, Angel, my parents, Ivan, and Alex. The vamps travelled in style, locked in their coffins. My parents sat together in frosty silence when we’d closed the doors on them. Dad insisted on coming if Mum was, and they still argued to the last minute about the merits of her going. Slim stayed behind to safeguard his sister, and because Jackson insisted he couldn’t come as he didn’t trust him not to sell us out.

I didn’t think Slim would sell us out. All he wanted was the damn cure, but when I’d crawled into his head the previous evening, I found out he hadn’t minded being left behind because without him there, then his sister was totally vulnerable to attacks.

Tense silence filled the space between those of us traveling upfront. No one spoke, and Jackson’s face was grim. We were risking a lot, but the rewards were huge. If we got the cure, then we could start trying to heal a broken world.

Sometimes in life you had to take risks. Even if they were of the life and death variety because when the world went to total shit, there were things bigger than your own survival.

I didn’t want to die, but I would if it meant saving millions.

“Get into Doc’s head and make him feel pain,” Jackson ordered out of nowhere.

“Excuse me?” I shot him a horrified glance.

“Yeah, do it,” Doc said. “I want to know you definitely can before we leave you at the wall.”

“We will have Ivan with us; he’s more than enough protection.”

“It goes that bad Ivan has to do his shit, and you’re already in more danger than I can stand,” Jackson said. “Get into Doc’s head and make him do something. Then make him feel pain. I want to know you can for sure.”

I’d been practicing like crazy with Angel, and she’d taught me much. Including, how to make sure I did it every time. “Okay.”

I sat and let myself think about Doc, his life, his dreams, his feelings.

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