Breaking Even: Mayhem of Magic by Nicole Zoltack

Author:Nicole Zoltack [Zoltack, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nicole Zoltack

Chapter

Seventeen

I gape at Sophie. My mind races, and I almost can’t process what she’s said.

“Experiments? On inmates? What kind of experiments? What did they do? Sophie, is that why you were in the infirmary, to get away from the warden and his experiments? What did he have planned for the prisoners?”

Her eyes glitter with darkness as she flicks the bladed feather up. This time, she catches it, squeezing it tightly, scarlet ribbons of blood trickling between her fingers.

“Why is it that you and Aiden—whoops—are so willing to use my name despite our disguises? Oh, whoops. Sorry, angel. You weren’t supposed to know that, but you see…” Sophie snaps the finger of her non-injured hand, and gone is her demon appearance, only there’s something almost still demonic about her even though she adopts her true appearance. “This is me. Sophie Aldercross. And that is Jessa Aldercross. My twin. She looks just like me. And he…” She airily points the feather in the direction Aiden had flown off in. “Yes, the female gargoyle is actually a male fairy named Aiden. Aiden Sunwinds. So. There. A little bit of truth for you to enjoy.”

“I didn’t mean to upset you by using your name,” I protest, my hands up. “It just slipped out.”

“Oh, yes, an accident. So many accidents happen around you, though, Jessa. Do you really want to continue to wear Sequoia’s form? Come now. I outed you.”

I grimace. She wants me to change. Why? Is this a game to her? Why is she not acting like herself at all?

“Let’s just focus on the issue at hand. The experiments. Can you tell me about them? Either of you?” I ask, desperation bleeding into my words.

“Oh.” Sophie laughs. While staring me down, she whips the bladed feather. True to her word, it flies through the air and pierces the angel square between the eyes.

I let out a shriek and fall to my knees in front of him. The angel is somehow alive, and I think Sophie once told me about an article she read about a human surviving some kind of similar wound, that it severed the two hemispheres of his brain rather than killed him.

“I am so sorry,” I babbled. “I didn’t mean… I didn’t want… I’m sorry. I…”

His lips move, but no words come out. It’s clear enough what he’s mouthing, though.

Two words.

Kill.

Me.

My eyes squeezed shut, I remove the bladed feather from his head and plunge it into his heart. My fingers are covered in blood, some mine but the rest his.

“You made me do that!” I shout as I whirl around to face Sophie. “You made me kill him!”

“He was dead the moment he showed up here,” Sophie says indifferently.

“Did you know?”

“Know what?”

“About the experiments?”

“Didn’t you hear me? I said that the warden turned to his prisoners. He experimented on…”

“On you,” I murmur. “Experiments were done on you. That’s why you’re so different!”

“I’m different because of you!” Her tone is piercing, her eyes wild and mad. “You were the one who

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