Kindred Truths by M.D. Grimm

Author:M.D. Grimm [Grimm, M.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63533-843-0
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2017-10-25T04:00:00+00:00

“WE GREW up together,” Hunter said. The knights, both living and dead, had been taken by helicopter to Agency compounds. A lot of paperwork was in Poe’s future, but for right now, he wanted some answers. Nordik, dressed decently in trousers, a shirt, and slip-on shoes, stood next to him, his expression puzzled. They, along with Douglas and Willow, stood in a circle around Hunter and Glenn, who sat on a couch in the living room.

Hunter looked at Poe. “What will happen to her? What you said about… about someone at the Agency jogging her memory. Did you mean torture?”

Poe didn’t answer. He couldn’t.

Hunter grimaced. “Please don’t do that to her. She’s a victim.”

“She has shifter blood on her hands,” Douglas said.

“And you have knight blood on yours.”

Douglas glared, eyes sparking. Willow took his hand, her expression distressed.

“I’m just saying, who here can throw stones? She had her rite before mine. She was transferred elsewhere. I haven’t seen her in years. But we cared for each other. We were friends.”

Poe noticed Glenn looking conflicted. He seemed to care about Hunter’s distress, but also couldn’t feel pity for a knight. Poe was straddling that same line.

“None of you understand,” Hunter said. “We were… brainwashed. Well and truly brainwashed to the cause. Our TV and internet access was restricted. What books we read, when and where we could go outside. We weren’t allowed to know anyone outside the Knights. We were raised to believe certain things. That we were heroes, warriors in a sacred war. Servants of a god. When that’s all you know, when the adults around you believe it, of course you’ll believe it. You want to be like your family. Some of the children were born into the Knights.” Hunter ran his hand over his head. “Lindsay doesn’t think she’s done anything wrong because she’s been told everything she’s done is right.”

Poe was eerily reminded of the Hitler Youth and how the Nazis brainwashed an entire generation to believe their ideology. Some things were not just hard to break; they were impossible. No one wanted to admit what they’d put their faith and belief in, what they’d killed for, what their friends died for, was a lie.

“Please, Agent Poe,” Hunter said. “Please don’t let them torture her.”

“It’s not my call, Hunter,” he said as gently as he could. “She has information. If she knows Gregor personally, was commanded by him personally, then she is a great asset. She could turn the tide of this entire war. And war is ugly. And no one comes out of it as pure as they entered. We all have blood on us. But sometimes it truly is the means to an end that matters.”

“Then what makes us—you—any different from them?”

“The end goal.”

Hunter shook his head in anger, hands clenched on his knees. Then he suddenly turned to Glenn, appealing to him.

“Glenn, you can’t condone this!”

Glenn swallowed hard. “It’s not my decision.”

“It shouldn’t be anyone’s decision! Because no one has the right to make it!” Hunter jumped up and pushed past Poe.

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