Taken: Original Sin Book 1 by Hart Stella

Author:Hart, Stella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-23T16:00:00+00:00

10

Mason

“Praise Him for this meal.”

I quickly bowed my head over my scrambled eggs and toast as I pretended to pray. One of the girls had just brought over breakfast for me and the Elders, including Jacob.

Usually the men sat at their own tables, away from the Elders, but as I was new and still getting used to the place, Jacob was allowing me to sit with them for meals so they could answer any questions I might have. He said he would allow it for as long as it took me to get used to everything.

As if I ever fucking could.

I knew they did horrible, dehumanizing things to the women here, but fucking executions? Holy shit. I wasn’t expecting that. When Jolie told me about it the other night, I almost had a goddamned heart attack.

Really, I should have known. After all, the men here probably orchestrated the mass killing of their wives and many other young adults back in 1999, just so they could create this new ‘society’ of theirs. So why would they stop there? Why not kill a few young women here and there if it ensured the fear, respect and compliance they demanded from the rest of them?

Fucking psychopaths.

“How are you settling in, Mason?” Elder DuVernay asked, peering across the table as I gingerly nibbled on my toast. I felt like shit eating this food. Even though everything the women made tasted great and was perfectly-cooked, it was still made with what essentially amounted to slave labor.

I forced a smile. “Fine, thank you. It’s even more peaceful out here than I imagined.”

“Yes, it’s nice to escape the toxicity and noise of the cities,” Jacob said from my right. “How long’s it been since you arrived now? Eight days?”

I nodded. “Yes.”

I’d been counting every damn second. I didn’t want to be here, but I simply had to stay.

I’d fucked up badly last week by trying to tell Jolie the whole truth right away. I should’ve known better, and yet I’d leapt right in the deep end with her anyway. Unfortunately, trying to convince her of anything that evening was impossible. My attempt to make her accept even the smallest detail of the real world was like walking in deep water with weights attached to my body, an unstoppable drag against my legs. Jolie simply wouldn’t budge. Wouldn’t allow herself to hear the truth. She pushed back over and over, saying she knew it was some sort of test from above.

It made sense. She’d been brainwashed for eleven years, ever since she was a young child. All she responded to in men was fear, violence and cruelty, so I should’ve known it would take more than me simply telling her my version of the truth. It would take a hell of a lot more than that.

She truly believed in all the things she’d been taught over the years, because she had no other choice. Down here, it was ‘believe or die’ for the girls, and punishments for even the smallest of so-called sins were more brutal than I could’ve imagined.

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