Sentinel (Battlecry Series Book 2) by Emerald Dodge

Author:Emerald Dodge [Dodge, Emerald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

I shut the door to my new house a little too loudly.

Though I was sure in my decision to have joined the Sentinels an hour earlier, my hands trembled as I walked into the living room. I hadn’t taken my multivitamin in several days and I was sleep-deprived—surely that was the source of my muscle tremors. I just needed to eat and sleep, and then I’d be fine.

That was probably also why I was unable to summon happiness at being a Sentinel, or speaking with my brother. Or anything.

“We need to talk,” I said to the empty living room. My team would hear me.

Ember wandered out of the kitchen. “How was the meeting?”

“That’s what we need to talk about.”

Reid and Marco exited their bedroom. Reid’s expression was politely curious, but I could tell from Marco’s squint that he was still angry at me for… what? I couldn’t even remember, nor did I care.

I took a deep breath. “Bottom line: we’ve been invited to join the Sentinels. I took the invitation, but said you all would decide on your own.”

“So… are you not on our team anymore?” Marco asked. “You’re a Sentinel now?”

“No, I’m still on the team.”

Marco looked confused. “You’re a superhero and a Sentinel? At the same time?”

“I’m…” I faltered. What the hell was I now? I gave my head a little shake and changed direction. “As long as we’re here, I want to be useful. I want to make the Westerners pay for what they’ve done to us.”

“Yeah, about that,” Ember said. “How long are we staying here? The way I see it, we found Benjamin, so our next job is finding Isabel, then going home.”

“And the minor detail of Gregory being here doesn’t matter to you,” Marco said, throwing her a look of disbelief.

“No, that’s not what I’m saying,” Ember said. “But we’re not Sentinels.” She gave me a significant look. “We’re superheroes.”

“I’m in,” Reid said.

Ember’s eyebrows shot up. “What? Just like that? Shouldn’t we talk about this?”

Reid waved her off. “Why? The Westerners have decimated my camp for years. Now I have a chance to serve with a group that’s actually doing something about them. I’m able to help the Sentinels, so I have a responsibility to do so.”

“No, you have a responsibility to Saint Catherine,” Ember hissed. “We need to work out a way to get back home. I don’t see what’s complicated about this.”

“We’re out of the camps,” Reid replied, his voice cold. “Saint Catherine was our camp assignment. And they have a police force. The captives have nobody but the Sentinels.”

“So you’re just going to drop everything and join a militia? Because of your sense of responsibility? What about your responsibility to your team? To me?”

“He doesn’t have a responsibility to you,” I cut in. “No more than I do to Benjamin.”

Ember whirled around and glared at me. “Stop dragging us into your personal problems, Jill.”

“And speaking of Benjamin, when are you going to stop being a jerk to him?” Marco asked. “He’s not here right now because he doesn’t want to see your face.

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