Inside, Pt. 3 by Kyra Anderson

Author:Kyra Anderson [Anderson, Kyra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-05-11T22:00:00+00:00

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My eyes snapped open and were burning immediately. I was frozen, my eyes wide as I stared into the chest in front of me.

Dana.

He was holding me.

He was also lying very still…

Was he asleep?

I dared to look up at his face and saw his eyes closed, his head resting on a pillow as he breathed slowly and deeply.

Afraid of waking him, I remained completely still, assessing where I was and what state I was in.

Everything seemed like a blur, the way I had searched Dana’s body for scars…the numbers tattooed on the bottom of his foot—what numbers were they again?—and the way he held me as I cried, promising me all the power I could have ever dreamed of. All I had to do was kill a part of myself to achieve it.

The tears came back with a vengeance.

This was my uncle, the experiment I had come to admire and strived to imitate if I was ever brought into the Commission. The irony was not at all laughable. Now, Dana was going to force me to walk down the same path, force me to become like him.

I no longer had someone to look up to. The one I had seen as a hero, as a pillar of strength against the corruption and terror of the Commission for the People, had actually been turned into the man running the entire circus.

There was a click at the door and I jumped before forcing myself to be still in fear of waking Dana.

The door slowly opened as I watched, trying to crane my neck to see who was there. Sean’s worried and pale face poked into the room. I blinked, surprised to see him and when his eyes met mine, he bowed his head, his eyes apologetic as he walked in, closing the door behind him.

“Dana,” Sean called.

“Whatever it is I’m supposed to do, I refuse,” Dana said simply, not even partially asleep.

“Leader Simon needs you at Central Hall,” Sean continued, walking to Dana’s side of the bed. He placed a hand on Dana’s shoulder and tried to pull him onto his back, away from me. “Come on, get dressed. We need to go in twenty minutes.”

“I said, no,” Dana snapped, swatting at Sean distractedly, still keeping his eyes closed.

“Dana, you’ve been in here for four hours.”

“Really?”

Dana finally cracked an eye open and turned to look at Sean, still keeping his arms around me.

“Four hours?”

“Yes,” Sean groaned, exasperated. “Now, will you please get dressed so we can go?”

Dana sighed heavily and released me, rolling over the side of the bed and to his feet, stretching his arms above his head before walking to his clothes. Sean’s eyes turned to me and he placed one knee on the bed, reaching over and placing a hand against my cheek.

“I’m sorry…” he whispered.

“Don’t be sorry, Sean,” Dana smiled, pulling his clothes on. “She’s going to go through an amazing transformation. She’s going to become like me.”

“That’s why I’m apologizing,” Sean growled, fixing Dana with a harsh stare.

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