Monsters Among Us by Amanda Strong

Author:Amanda Strong [Strong, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CTP Publishing

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Sammy

Everything was lining up well enough. The Defenders were relieved to be home, even if it was under less-than-ideal circumstances; Lola and the other Irukas were safe; nothing had shown up at the island looking for a fight yet; and even Kory and the ancients were cooperating so far. We had the island in full lockdown mode.

So why am I so anxious? I paced the room, feeling like the four walls might squeeze the very breath out of me if I let them. Logically, I knew there was no reason to feel claustrophobic, but I did. It didn’t help that the room was divided into two rows of ten holding cells on either side of me. Jaxon, who was outside the door standing guard, had insisted I stay put until we knew nothing was coming. He’d been the one to find the room for me to hide in, and he’d assured me he wouldn’t let anything happen to me. He could’ve found a better room. This one looks like a prison.

I felt like I’d spent my entire life imprisoned in my mind, being pushed into nonexistence when Sam had control. I’d awake from a deep slumber to find myself experiencing new things in strange new places. The early years had been the worst. Confused, I’d had no one to go to for help. The few times I’d tried my mom, she’d shut me out like I was the plague, begging me to leave her sweet Sam alone.

I wasn’t a virus or some alien life-form trying to take over their daughter. Sam was me, and I was Sam. We were two halves of the same person, but they never saw it that way. They never thought of me as a piece of their daughter, that both of us were fragments that needed to be made whole again.

Lucky for me, I’d discovered the existence of a new species, a hybrid of sorts—a way for us to heal finally. Of course, being the stronger of the two, I knew I needed to be the one in control. I was Sam’s protector. My very existence had come from the moment I’d saved her. I was her, and she needed me. Why didn’t anyone understand that? Having the Defenders follow me, choose me as their leader, wasn’t for my own power trip. It was so nothing could ever harm me—or Sam—again. We could keep the world safe. We could be saviors together.

“That’s what we are doing now, you know,” I whispered aloud, hoping Jaxon couldn’t hear me. I needed to get the words out of my head. Thinking too much was killing me. Of course, no one responded to my statement because I was trapped in a jail-like room alone, with not even Sam seeming to be with me.

Glancing at the bars next to me, I grumbled, “This won’t do.” Marching over to the door, I discovered it was locked from the outside. Banging against it, I yelled, “Jaxon, open up!”

The doorknob clicked and then turned.

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