The Planet Urth Series 3-Book Boxed Set (The Planet Urth Boxed Set) by Jennifer Martucci & Martucci Christopher

Author:Jennifer Martucci & Martucci,Christopher [Martucci, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-11-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

We travel for several more miles after Sully killed the convoy of Urthmen, crossing the street and remaining hidden by the trees that line the other side. While we do, the scene continues to replay in my head over and over. I search my heart for regret or remorse for what happened, even though I did not do the killing. But I come up empty. Maybe I am not better than the Urthmen as Will implied when I was about to kill the family of them back in town. Maybe he is right. Maybe I am a monster. If being a monster means wanting to live for more than just a day, to try to secure some kind of future for my sister and I, then I am every bit a monster. I want more than today, I want tomorrow, and many days, months and years thereafter. I want a life. I want to live. I wonder whether Will understands the difference between surviving and living.

Several times while we jog along, Will’s eyes meet mine. His expression is always the same: troubled. He’s likely seen more death and gore in the last week than in his entire life. Seeing his parents die at the hands of Urthmen has scarred him, of that I am confident. How could it not? All the other carnage only serves to further widen the aching chasm that has been opened within him. He did not approve of what Sully did earlier. He’d made that plain enough. I enthusiastically approve, but I still feel bad for Will. The wound of his parents’ deaths is still fresh. I try to convey to him with my eyes that I am sorry for his pain. There isn’t much I can say in front of everyone else. Preserving Will, Oliver and Riley’s privacy is important to me. They can share what they want with Sully and Jericho when or if they want to. It is not for me to determine that for them.

“Where are we going?” June asks Sully and distracts me from my brooding.

“We are going to the place where Jericho and I live. But listen June, and everyone else,” Sully addresses not just my sister, but all of us. “You need to do exactly as I say. The next turnoff will take us to the edge of a heavily wooded area. As soon as we get in there, everyone needs to follows my orders, okay?”

June agrees first, followed by Oliver and Riley’s mumbles of approval.

“Avery, are you good with that?” Sully asks me directly.

“Yep,” I reply stiffly after a quick glance at Will.

Will’s upper lip is lifted higher than usual. He shakes his head slowly, as if disgusted.

“How about you, buddy? You good with that?” Sully addresses Will.

“Do I really have a choice?” Will snaps.

Amusement dances in Sully’s dark eyes. “You always have a choice. Just this one is either listen to me, or be blown to smithereens,” he says with a wink. “Choose wisely.”

Will is left with his mouth agape, a question or angry comment burning somewhere beyond it.

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