Dangerous Deception by Garcia Kami & Stohl Margaret

Author:Garcia, Kami & Stohl, Margaret [Garcia, Kami]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, young adult
ISBN: 9780316370349
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2015-04-22T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15: NOX

No One Like You

Nox stepped away from the bars.

Ridley stared back at him from the corner of her cell, where she sat hugging her knees and singing “Mockingbird” to herself.

“What did Silas do to you?” he whispered.

“They took her away last night,” a girl with a German accent said from somewhere behind him.

Nox spun around.

An emerald-eyed Light Caster with a braid of brown hair stood inside a cell across from Ridley’s. Chills pricked the back of Nox’s neck at the sight of yet another girl behind bars.

He stepped closer. “Who?”

He heard shuffling in the next cell over, and a golden-eyed blond with Dark Caster tattoos across her knuckles looked back at him. “Silas and his rejects. Who else?”

“Where did they take her?” he asked.

The Dark Caster shook her head almost sadly. “The labs. It’s the only explanation for how crazy she’s acting.”

The German girl nodded in Ridley’s direction. “She has been like that ever since they brought her back. One minute she’s talking to herself, and the next she’s screaming.”

“Or singing that stupid song,” the other girl said. “She’s got it bad. Even worse than Angelique did.”

“Shut up, Drew,” the German girl snapped. “She can’t help it.”

Nox looked at the German girl. “What’s your name?”

“Katarina.”

“Katarina,” Nox repeated. “Have they ever taken either of you to the labs?”

She shook her head, looking terrified. “No. Silas only takes me on jobs. Then they lock me right back up in here afterward.”

Nox examined the girl more closely. She was probably seventeen or eighteen tops. It was hard to tell, because she had the tired expression of someone much older. “What kind of jobs?”

“He rents us out for our powers.” She tugged on the end of her braid nervously. “It could be worse. He sells the girls who aren’t part of the Menagerie.”

Drew shook her head and leaned against the wall inside her cell. “Yeah, we’re the lucky ones. We get to be part of Silas’ little collection and hope he doesn’t drag us off to the labs and lobotomize us next.” She looked back at Ridley. “I wasn’t talking about you. Sorry about that.”

Nox turned back toward Ridley’s cell. The Siren stopped singing and looked up, and for a moment, he thought she was looking at him. But her gaze stopped at the edge of the cell, just short of where he stood.

Ridley’s eyes widened and she scrambled backward across the floor until she hit the wall. “Don’t let them out of the cage!” she screamed.

“Rid, look at me,” Nox called out. “You’re okay. You’re just seeing things.”

She stared up at him without a hint of recognition, her eyes full of terror. Then she winced and pressed her hands against her temples like she was in pain.

“Ridley!”

She blinked over and over as if she couldn’t get her eyes to focus—or maybe her thoughts.

“Shh. Be quiet, Rat Man. They’ll hear you,” she whispered.

Nox glanced around.

Nothing.

He gripped the bars and bent down so he was closer to her eye level. “Who will hear

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