Into the Rain by Smith Fleur

Author:Smith, Fleur
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-20T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

“IF THEY’VE TAKEN her alive they would have taken her to Hell,” Ethan said.

“What’s Hell?” I asked after seeing the dismal faces around me. It was as if I was missing a vital piece of the puzzle that everyone else already had.

“The Rain headquarters in New York is down in Chelsea, near Hell’s Kitchen,” Clay explained. “There used to be a running joke that any creatures taken there were being sent to Hell.”

Ethan’s initial meeting with Fiona had gone better than any of us could have hoped for, probably because he was old enough to remember her when she’d left. He’d recognized her almost immediately, even down to the sound of her voice. With Clay and me backing up her word, he didn’t accuse her of being a doppelganger like Clay had. In fact, he was so accepting that Fiona seemed more comfortable around him almost instantly. Then again, it only made sense—it was easier to relax when not threatened with an axe.

After Fiona had told him of Mackenzie’s disappearance and her suspicions that the Rain was involved, Fiona’s most trusted guards had been called to join the meeting and Ethan fell into strategy mode. He was a master planner and seemed to guess all of the moves the Rain would have made so far, or possibly he was simply listing the moves he would have made.

“Where do you think she’d be in Bayview?” Clay asked.

“What’s Bayview?” I asked, feeling like I was still on a different page to everyone else.

“It’s a prison,” Clay said.

“Not anymore,” Ethan corrected. “It’s the Bayview Hotel now.”

“Since when?” Clay asked.

“A few years ago.” After answering his brother, his focus shifted to me, the only one in the room who didn’t know all the details. “It’s the latest front for the Rain. For years, it was a prison that accepted all sorts of nonhuman prisoners alongside the regular ones. The prisoners were ones who needed restraining until they could be interrogated or killed. Some creatures are extraordinarily difficult to destroy, and it can take days or even weeks to find their weaknesses. Others are so unique, we need to find out what—” He stopped when he saw my horror-struck expression.

A shudder raced through me. That could have been me.

Clay had said the Rain had tried to kidnap me when I was young. Kidnap, not kill. I could only imagine the tortures they would have subjected me to had they succeeded. I said another silent thank you to Dad for spending so much of his life trying to keep me out of their hands.

Ethan directed his attention away from me and toward the rest of the group. “Running the prisons and keeping the external teams on the road was extraordinarily expensive. For years, the Rain received government grants and private donations, which, combined with training us field agents in credit card fraud and other money gathering techniques, were enough to fund everything. These days, people don’t believe in monsters, so they’re not willing to help finance the protection of the human race.

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