The Grid 2 by Paul Teague

Author:Paul Teague [Teague, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clixeo Publishing

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Julia Levett had more to lose than her friends Leo and Jody. She was typical of the people recruited to the Centuria. She had family and connections – Fortrillium could intimidate her at any time.

She’d frequently wondered if it had been the right decision to throw her lot in with the resistance movement. It had happened slowly, though; she’d had to decide on the spur of the moment and she’d opted to save her friends.

There wasn’t much Fortrillium missed, and she was amazed they’d managed to achieve so much without detection. However, with the security credentials to pass freely between Silk Road and The Climbs, Centuria were in the perfect position to assist the resistance.

Everybody hated life in The City – they were all flies trapped in the spider’s web. The only difference for those on Silk Road was that they got housed and fed. They were all guilty of inaction, the will to fight had been knocked out of them years ago. She was too young to know when city residents had given up, but she figured there must have been a point at which Fortrillium had finally beaten them into submission.

She’d felt as if she could make a difference in the Centuria. Naturally athletic and active, she’d been recruited early. She knew what they were capable of, she’d grown up seeing it all around her. Less so on Silk Road, of course, and she was shocked by the horrors she’d encountered the first time she stepped into The Grid.

It was Hunter who’d turned her towards the resistance. She’d been on shift with Leo and Jody when he’d gone on one of his shooting sprees in The Climbs. She’d been a raw recruit at the time, new to that side of the wall.

Hunter had ordered them to finish off the wounded he had maimed and incapacitated, leaving the Centuria to make sure there was nobody left to bear witness. It had been all Julia could do not to throw up. She fought to contain her horror until Hunter had left the scene.

Their Quad Team leader was a man called Santo and he commanded them to finish off the wounded. Julia hadn’t known what to do. She wanted to scream and run. Leo had walked over to where Hunter had discarded his weapon on the ground. Casually he picked it up and shot Santo in the head.

‘You need to make a choice, Levett,’ he’d said, calm and in control.

‘Either you cover for us or you hand us in. If you cover for us, we can maybe save some lives and make a difference out here.’

She’d been in shock, but Julia had no other choice. There was no way she could slaughter the shot residents bleeding out and crying with pain on the road in front of her.

It was a decision she’d made in the moment. Only, when she’d thrown in her lot with Leo and Jody she’d never thought about the danger it would consistently place her in.

Julia confirmed Leo’s

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