Tainted Plans by Jenn Vakey

Author:Jenn Vakey [Vakey, Jenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-09T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

I couldn’t even begin to express how much better I felt the next morning. I had a plan, a set date that I was going to go in there and fight with everything I had to get my sister back. More than that, I was going to do it without turning myself into a person I would end up hating. That was where most of that weight had come from. But I was in charge now. I was no one’s puppet.

“Hey, Aarys,” I said, looking up to where she sat across the table from me. “Do you have any time to train with me since Rhydian can’t right now?”

She flashed an almost excited smile and nodded. “As long as you think you’re up for it.”

Rhydian’s warning swept through my mind about grappling with Aarys, but I pushed past it. She was likely stronger than any man, well any man who wasn’t Tainted, so she was the perfect person to train with. If I could stand up against her, I could stand up against anyone.

“Absolutely,” I grinned back. I felt a little guilty, like I was using her. Maybe I was. I didn’t have a choice, though. “Just don’t break anything that can’t be fixed.”

As she laughed, I caught sight of something at the door that stood open across the room behind her. Something that made my heart skip a few beats. Rhydian.

It was all I could do not to jump up and go toward him, but I had more pressing things I needed to focus on. The important thing was that he looked okay. I couldn’t see any signs that he was injured, which made things a lot easier for me. There were no visible bruises, nothing to suggest he had been in an altercation with Sentry. He even smiled at a few people around him as he walked through the line and filled up a plate. He looked… normal.

Instead of taking it to a table, though, he just turned and walked out again. Back toward the clinic. He didn’t even turn back to look for me. That shouldn’t have bothered me as much as it did.

I still had no idea what was going on with him, but he was safe. With my new plan, he was going to remain that way.

Another morning spent in the clinic, another several hours without Rhydian emerging from the room. I would be lying if I said it wasn’t disappointing.

Maybe it was actually better this way. Things had been strange with us before he left for Eden. Chances were that they would only get more so. If that happened, he might try to stop me from leaving for Eden when it was time. Or worse, he would want to go with me. I couldn’t let that happen. The whole point of doing it this way was to keep him out of Adler’s hands.

As promised, Aarys was waiting for me on the training field when I walked out after lunch. I should have been a little worried by the mischievous smirk on her face, but my mind was elsewhere.

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