Titan's Wrath by Bruno Rhett C

Author:Bruno, Rhett C. [Bruno, Rhett C.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2017-12-10T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

KALE TRASS

I sat alone in the Cora’s cargo hold, pulse rifle lying across my lap. I removed the clip, checked it was full, then that all the weapon’s pieces were in their proper places. Not that I knew how any of it really functioned, but it was comforting to know that it would shoot straight if I needed to use it.

Fingers snapped beside my ear, and my head whipped around to face the disturbance as if a bomb had gone off. I was relieved to find it was only Gareth trying to gain my attention. His eyes were uncharacteristically red and I could hear his runny nose sniveling through his mask. It was from all the direct exposure to the inhabitants of Mars without his mask or other precautions. He’d loaded up on every bit of medication we had the moment we returned to the Cora just in case.

“You look like someone I know,” he signed to me, throwing a nod Maya’s way. She was across the room giving orders to a handful of my guards, a perpetual scowl fixed to her face. I smirked and returned to attending to my rifle.

Gareth sat beside me and leaned forward so I could see his hands out of the corner of my eye. After months with him, I didn’t need to focus all my attention anymore to read what he was saying.

“I understand,” he signed.

“Trust me, you don’t,” I said.

“Caring about her does not make you weak. Love is pain.”

I glanced back at his face. Concern softened his usually staid façade. “Maya told you everything, didn’t she?”

He shook his head emphatically. “Didn’t need to.”

“It’s not…” I sighed. “What would you do, Gareth? Let her and my unborn child die because they aren’t full Titanborn?”

“I already have.”

“What in Trass’s name are you talking about?”

“We can’t ever give up on them, Kale. Even if we’re unsure. Even if we don’t understand.”

My brow furrowed. I gestured toward Maya, but again, Gareth shook his head.

“My late wife. She was so afraid of getting sick she stopped leaving our hollow. I don’t know how to sign the word for that. We fought so much over it, I never liked coming home. I called her crazy and irrational, she called me naive, and it went on. When we had a son, she never let him leave either.”

“I didn’t know you had a wife and child.”

“Had.” His hands began to quake gently. “I was away, working security for a fence trying to broaden his reach to another block. I don’t know how my boy got sick, but he did. When I returned, I found his limp body in our shower. She’d drowned him in the water, the only luxury we Titanborn could afford.”

“Gareth, I—” He didn’t allow me to finish.

“I was so angry when I found our son, a child I barely ever saw, that I strangled her.” His hands now shook so intensely he could barely use them to form words. “She was sick. She needed help. And instead of finding it, I stayed away.

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