Bladed Magic by Bladed Magic (epub)

Author:Bladed Magic (epub)
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter Four

This was bullshit.

But as much as I wanted to demand Justin take me back to Wolf Haven, I’d made the mistake of giving him ten minutes to explain.

That was what he’d asked for—ten minutes.

Stupid me.

That was how I’d found myself in his workroom, staring at a board he’d fixed to the wall. It was covered with hard copies of nearly a dozen pictures, all of them girls under the age of thirteen.

That was all it had taken, really.

He hadn’t even had to say anything.

I’d seen their faces and I was done.

“His name is Larry White.” Justin hit a button on the tablet he had on the table and I watched as it projected an image up in the air. I blinked at the clarity of it. Computers, tablets, phones, even cars, all of that tech were things I hadn’t known existed until a few short years ago. I had a phone now, a basic unit, one that TJ had told me really should have been recycled sometime around the end of the war—that was exaggerating a bit, but it did the job and I was able to afford it. Other than that, I was fairly unfamiliar with most of the tech people here used. They hadn’t had any of this where I’d grown up, cut off from the world.

Script filled the screen next to Larry’s name and something hot, wild twisted inside me.

Multiple complaints for suspected sexual assault—

That one line leaped out at me.

“Sexual assault.” I turned my head and stared at the young faces in front of me. “Those are his victims.”

“Yeah.” Justin crossed his arms over his chest, staring at the faces of the children as well.

“He’s been arrested. Why hasn’t he been charged?”

His laugh was caustic and his anger stung my skin. “Well, you see, it wasn’t priority for the cops. Cops are human. They have human priorities. Our pal Larry falls into that weird grey area—if he wasn’t a scum-sucking pervert, I might feel bad for him. He’s been fired from multiple jobs, mugged and had the shit beaten out of him multiple times. Labeled a pariah because he has an ability that people decided made him NH—he’s got a weak psychic gift, you see.”

I curled my lip. “Psychic ability is found in the human populace. Doesn’t make a person non-human. Not by human law and not by the Charter.” The Charter was the laws created by the Assembly. People lived—and died—by the Charter, or they did once they decided they wanted to be part of the Assembly of NHs. Being a member had its advantages, the protection that came with those laws. It had its disadvantages, too. Like being registered. I wasn’t too keen on the idea of putting my name down anywhere.

“Trust me, I’m aware.” Justin continued to study White’s victims. “Thus the reason for the stipulation. White is human. Plain and simple. His ability is strong enough to make him useful, which is why he was shacking up with the wolf you tangled with.

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