Full Blood by Donna Augustine

Author:Donna Augustine [Augustine, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-20T16:00:00+00:00

18

“Everyone out but Bugs,” Ryker said.

I turned my head to the side, letting out a slow sigh. While I was still trying to figure out why they should stay, they were all scrambling out the door.

“Real nice,” I said to Ruck as he walked past me. Big snitch. What was he thinking? He didn’t bother telling me as he walked out with the rest of them. One by one, they left until it was only Ryker and I.

“You really agreed to not worm?”

He was still clinging to the hope that Ruck was making it up. I could tell by the way his eyes went deeper and the fact that it was an actual question. The rhetorical ones had a different tone altogether.

There was a slight chance he wouldn’t be a stubborn ass about this. The odds were slim, but I was going to be optimistic for one time in my life.

“Marra was afraid I might get bad information that would hurt someone else.” I was extrapolating a lot from what she’d gestured, but I was sure I was correct. I knew her. She was only worried about others.

Ryker turned and paced the room for a second, before stopping by the door. He still had his arms crossed. He glanced at me, shook his head, and looked outside.

This was why I wasn’t optimistic. Shit never worked out. Of course he couldn’t understand. He used people. I didn’t. “I owe her. She was one of my—she is one of my people.”

His jaw shifted. “You owe her nothing. If it weren’t for you, she’d be dead with her sister from starvation.”

“I asked the worm if we should cross the river. Sinsy died. It wasn’t an absurd request.” That I had to defend it was even worse. Did he really think I wanted to not worm? My fingers twitched to dig for a worm almost hourly.

“She might’ve died anyway. She could’ve died when we got back, or if she’d never come here, but no one forced her to do anything. They were all her decisions. You need to forget Marra. Something’s snapped inside her. I’ve seen it enough to know.”

“She hasn’t snapped. She lost her sister. She’s in mourning like anybody would be, and she’ll get better.”

“You’re wrong.”

“Why are you letting her stay, then? Well? If that’s what you really think?” Ryker thought out every angle to the minutiae. Then every consequence beyond that. I respected it, even if I didn’t have the patience for it myself. If he truly believed what he said, he could’ve booted Marra out of here.

He shrugged.

Sure, my life was supposed to be an open book, and yet I couldn’t get a straight answer to a simple question.

He turned and walked toward me. “If you want to survive, you use whatever you have. You used to know that.”

The inference to when I used to raid chuggers was painfully obvious and also a much different scenario. “We would’ve starved.”

“What about the lives at stake right now? Don’t they matter?”

I paced toward the door.

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