Citizen (Citizen Saga, Book 3) by Claire Nicola

Author:Claire, Nicola [Claire, Nicola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-10-31T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

Well I Never

Trent

“All rise for the Chief Overseer,” Shiloh’s voice sounded out through the door.

This was happening too quickly. Too fucking quickly for me to stop it. To prevent it from all falling apart.

Fuck me. But this was going to go south too damn swiftly. And there was nothing, not a damn fucking thing I could do to protect her. Nothing at all.

I watched as she hesitated, her face going a shade paler, if that was at all possible. And then the Elite in her rallied. Shoulders back, chin up. Fuck, I was so in love with this woman.

She sucked in a deep breath of air and headed toward the door.

I wanted to grab her. Stop her. Throw her over my shoulder and run the other way. I wanted to keep her safe. Keep her from facing her childhood nemesis. I wanted to kill the motherfucker once and for all.

I reached out. Almost touched her; stayed her. Almost did what my heart demanded I do.

But this wasn’t just about me. Wasn’t just about Lena either. For a second, an inconceivably long anguished second, I hated that I had been born to Mason Waters. I hated that the leadership had fallen to me.

My father and I had never had a close relationship, unless you counted the many times he stripped his belt off when I was young and thrashed the living daylights out of me. For some minor indiscretion or other. For some perceived failure to perform. For just being me.

I got too big to beat eventually. I got too smart. But the bastard found other ways to reach inside and stab my fucking heart out with a knife.

You think you’re better than me? He’d shouted one time. You think the son of a street whore is better than me?

Never mind that I was his son too, and that he’d lain with a supposed “street whore.”

You’ll never rise above it. Never have the respect necessary to lead an army. Unless you harden the fuck up.

He’d reached for his belt then, but remembered at the last second that I was finally big enough to fight back.

Just like your fucking mother, he’d said instead. Putting a quick fuck before anything else. And look where that got her?

Where did it get her, Dad? I’d asked, stressing “Dad” as I so rarely used it.

He’d spat on the ground, a habit that proved beyond a shadow of doubt that he was most definitely not model. Born in a time when the rules weren’t quite as strict.

That had been his problem. He remembered. He never forgot what it was like before General Chew-wen.

Wiped, son, he’d replied, stressing the term like I’d done with “Dad.” It got her the fuck wiped and you left in a gutter on the side of a Wáikěiton street. And now I’m hobbled with you. Trying to make something out of you. But you’ll amount to fuck all, you will. Too busy putting emotions, your own debauched desires, before duty, before necessity. Too busy being a fucking whore just like your useless fucking mother.

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