Illicit Connections by Rebecca Royce

Author:Rebecca Royce [Royce, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 48199999
Publisher: Rebecca Royce
Published: 2019-10-28T00:00:00+00:00

Twelve

“It’s done.”

Shiri exhaled. “Thank you.”

She hit the end button on her cell phone and tried to concentrate on what was happening. Guy needed her total focus. If any of the Fury were able to get through their wards to send damaging energy to harm Guy, she would need to defuse it. Gone were the days when she’d just let the energy manipulation happen. Now, she could actually sense it coming and control it. It was pivotal that she not lose all her hard-won control.

But she couldn’t help but feel utter and complete relief after Roman’s phone call. Ben knew nothing that could get him in trouble, although the Fury and the Institutions would still try.

Her phone vibrated. She looked down as she walked quietly away from the room where they were filming Guy’s announcement. It was a message from Addison Lewis, her beautiful friend who had started the Conditioned movement’s recent momentum when she’d run off with Spencer Lewis, the man who was now her husband. Before that, she’d been the formidable Addison Wade. Shiri shivered to remember that she hadn’t known about any of that when she’d been locked up in Crescent.

As her hands shook, she read the message twice, a skill she’d quickly learned in the last five years. They had confirmation.

Madame Joan had lived. The bombs that should have taken her out hadn’t gone off. They’d brought down Crescent, but not Madame and her sick ministrations. The woman was still around to cause hell to those who didn’t deserve it.

She looked up as Tara walked into the room. Tara Finley had befriended her the moment she’d stepped foot into Guy McKidd’s compound. The woman had once been in the Safe Dawn Institution before Addison and Spencer Lewis had broken her out. She was a very powerful fire-starter.

Tara could also be a mega-bitch, which meant it was a really good thing that she liked Shiri as much as she did. “Did the Fury manage to protect your friend?”

Shiri nodded. “The Fury has helped us tremendously over the years. He’s Spencer’s brother. He has a name and you know it.”

“Roman has his own agenda and you know it.” Tara rolled her eyes as one of their people operating the camera shushed her. She took Shiri’s arm and moved her farther out of the room. “He’s in love with you.”

“We’re friends.”

Tara shrugged. “Maybe. But he’s in love with you.”

“It’s not important today. None of the personal stuff matters today. Today is about freedom. Our brothers and sisters are gaining freedom. As soon as the bombs go off in Ashes, they’ll know they have to release the others.”

Tara pulled her into a hug. Her voice was barely a whisper. “Even our Seers can’t predict what will happen. Shiri, they’re never going to just let them go. Ever.”

She shook in Tara’s arms. Amongst themselves—the group of Conditioned who had managed either by luck or with help to get to the safety that was Guy McKidd’s private island—they were split almost straight down the middle about what the future would bring.

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