The Cost by Third Cousins

Author:Third Cousins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dystopian romance
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
Published: 2016-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 5

Sarah

The walk back to The City of Hope was going to be a long one. It didn’t help that the girl I had taken was struggling with me every step of the way.

We walked through the night until the sun started to lift itself over the horizon and then I brought us to a stop.

“Are you tired?” I asked her, as I turned to look at her. She looked tired. She had dark circles under her eyes and her shoulders were slumped in on themselves.

“Like you care,” she said to me bitterly. She dug her foot into the ground and then started to kick her foot into the small ditch she had made. I wondered whether she was imagining that it was my face.

“Well, actually I do care,” I said. “If for no other reason then it’s because you won’t fetch good money if you’re looking close to death.”

She snorted at me. “That’s all you care about, isn’t it?” she asked with narrowed eyes. “You don’t care about the fact that I’m a human being just like you. You don’t care about the fact that I have every right to live my life the way I choose. All you care about is getting your pay check. Do you even know what they do to us after you’ve handed us over? Have you ever even once asked?”

I could feel her judgment of me washing over and into my body. I didn’t blame her for thinking the way she did of me. It was true that some bounty hunters only cared about the money, but that wasn’t true of me. She couldn’t understand that I was doing this for the only bit of family I had left. She couldn’t understand that my family had been persecuted just like hers.

“Aren’t you even going to defend yourself?” She asked. She looked half amused by my lack of response.

“I don’t see why I should have to,”

I pulled my bag off of my shoulder and pulled out a small blanket that I’d folded up at the bottom. I held it out to her. “It’s not much, but it might make your sleep more comfortable. I’ll keep guard, so you don’t need to worry.”

She shook her head in disbelief. “Right, because it’s really the wild animals that I should be worried about.”

She took the blanket from me in a quick snatching motion and shook it out, so that it was laid flat on the ground. She positioned herself on it and quickly fell asleep. That was no surprise to me, because we’d already covered many miles of the journey we were making.

I left her to sleep until the sun had fully risen and then had started to sink again. It was pointless making our journey through the day. The heat was too much for somebody who wasn’t used to it, and I could tell from the girl’s pale skin that she’d spent more time underneath a canopy of trees than she had frolicking in the sunlight.

“It’s time to go,” I finally said to her gently, as I put my hand on her shoulder.

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