Mothership (Invasion Survivor Book 4) by Hayley Lawson

Author:Hayley Lawson [Lawson, Hayley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Mary's desperate words made Paige freeze. Judging by the looks on the boys' faces, they were shocked, too—to say the least. Paige could hear her heart pounding, threatening to burst out.

Floating children out? That’s monstrous!

All the other people continued shouting and crying, creating noise around them, but Paige was inside her own personal bubble. She expected things to be difficult on the mothership, especially for people like them, but she never expected anything like that. There were no words for something like that.

“But … but why?” Paige stammered. “Why would they do such a horrible thing?” She still couldn’t believe they were discussing something so awful.

Pam’s crying became hysterical, so she covered her face with both hands. Another person spoke up, replying to Paige. “Because the children are too young to be on the ship. They can’t work, and there is nothing they can do. They say they don’t have enough food to give to our children, and since the children can’t work, they’re completely useless to them.”

What?!

“Pam, don't say that,” Rene chastised.

“Why not? It's the truth,” Pam rebelled.

Mary completely broke down crying, slumping down to the ground. A much younger woman rushed to her side, trying to console her.

“Mary, please, calm down. We’ll find a way to get them back,” she tried to reassure the crying woman.

But how can anyone recover from such news? The innocent children were sentenced to death simply because someone perceived them as a burden.

Paige’s heart broke into a million pieces. This is so wrong that a new word should be invented for it.

AJ, Dave, and Paige looked at one another in disbelief. That moment was the first time they noticed that there were no children aside from Peter on this level.

Where are they? Paige wondered.

“And what’s even more horrible,” Andrew went on.

Paige was on the verge of breaking down because she couldn’t believe there was more—let alone that it could be worse. What could be more horrible than killing children?

“Is that the children of the Red’s and Blue’s won’t be touched! Can you believe it? Only our children will be floated! This is so disgusting! It’s ridiculous!” The man shook with anger.

Everything about this situation is disgusting.

“Excuse me. Why were their children allowed on the mothership?” Paige asked loudly, trying to make her voice heard through the fresh wave of crying and shouting.

“They paid for the tickets; that’s why!” a woman explained, almost spitting. She, too, shook from rage.

“The Blue Coats and Red Coats paid for the tickets. That’s why their kids are allowed.”

“The Blue and the Red,” Paige repeated, thinking fast. “What about Orange? Did they pay, too? Are the Orange kids being floated out?” she asked.

She tried to gather as much information as possible, which wasn’t that easy considering all the high emotions flying around.

Herself included.

“No, they aren’t. Only the Green kids,” a man said bitterly.

“That’s so fucked up! Why are you being punished like this?” AJ asked, shifting uncomfortably from one foot to another.

“Well, they did pay, but it was far less than the Reds and Blues,” the man answered.

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