The Enemies You Can Trust (The Home You Don't Remember Book 3) by Shane Shepherd

Author:Shane Shepherd [Shepherd, Shane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

The enemy Champions all turned to Mackintosh and focused on her. She must have been hit because she cried out as she took cover behind the same crates her target had used as protection.

“I always knew you were a traitor!” one of the Champions by the door shouted. She and her partner both looked strangely gleeful at the moment. “You’ve always been a coward, hiding away and trembling when Overseer Liu and Shaniqua went to talk to you, we all knew what you truly are! You’re basically still human!”

“Look at you, Melody, showing some spine now of all times—to protect your human friends,” the second Champion said with a sneer. “It’s an insult to all of us to call someone like you a Champion! You never deserved the title or anything that came with it! You’re just a worm still attached to your Captain and the other humans, you’re not a true Champion!”

Mackintosh scowled and shouted back as she aimed her own weapon, firing at the Champions and, Win realized, giving him and Aya space to work to open the shuttle.

“I may be a coward Melody, not really one of the First Ones, but I’m still a Supervisor,” Mackintosh snarled back, egging their enemies on. “I have a position of authority while you’re nobodies, so my cowardly self is worth much more than any of you! How does that feel?”

Win got the shuttle open while Aya tried to lay down some covering fire for Mackintosh, who could barely peek out of her hiding spot without getting a blast to the face. The Champions were getting closer to her.

It was Mackintosh and the Shapeshifter. Win couldn’t let the Champions get close to her. He wouldn’t.

“Cover for me,” he told Aya, and didn’t give her time to argue before he walked to the corner of the shuttle that was closest to Mackintosh, getting ready to make a dash towards her.

Mackintosh sent him a pointed look, nodding her chin towards the shuttle. Win realized what she meant: she wanted them to board the shuttle and bail, she was the one creating an opening for them.

Win glared at her and pointedly moved closer, running towards another shuttle between them. The plan had been, yes, to run as quickly as possible, and they were running out of time here—lack of alarm or not, soon the searching parties would be attracted to all the yelling and shooting—but Win refused to leave Mackintosh behind. Mackintosh might have been a Supervisor here, might have had a position of authority even with everything she and the Shapeshifter had done five years ago, but now she was openly a traitor: aiding prisoners in an escape, helping them steal a shuttle, firing against other Champions. She even killed one.

What would happen to her if he left her behind? Win couldn’t even think about it. Not because he didn’t want to, or it hurt, but because it was Mackintosh and the Shapeshifter. He found it physically impossible to leave them behind.

Win

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