True Born by L. E. Sterling

Author:L. E. Sterling
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Entangled: Teen
Published: 2016-05-02T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

The ride up the elevator is frosty. I head straight for Margot’s room. For once I’m not shadowed by Jared. The ache in my chest grows heavy even as the cord pulling me to my sister grows stronger. I rap once on the door before opening it.

I don’t know what I had expected. Maybe to find Margot wilted in a heap on the floor, waiting for me to look in on her. Maybe shivering in the closet. Instead, she stands at the window facing the darkness of Dominion, lit by the curling tendrils of exploded bombs. She turns, relief etched into her face, and something harder, firmer. I was wrong: Margot may be rocked by what has happened to her, but she’s strong. Far stronger than I’ve given her credit.

We embrace, two halves fitted together again. Her hair smells like sunshine. I can feel us both begin to calm now that we’re together again.

“You’re safe,” I say, just as Margot whispers, “You’re okay. I was so worried.”

We pull apart to stare at each other. In some unfathomable way, the gulf that has opened up between us since she went missing is more pronounced than ever. Her worried eyes travel over me restlessly. It’s hard to hide from my sister. “What happened to you?” she asks, her tone accusing.

I move to her closet and pull out the luggage I’d packed for her just days before. “Get packed,” I say in response. “We’re going home.”

“What? No.”

“Margot.” My voice is filled with steel. “We can’t stay here any longer.”

Margot sinks onto the bed. “What happened?”

“We need to speak with Father and Mother… And we need to go home. That’s all.” I cross over to the bureau beside the bed and start emptying her underwear drawer into the bag. Margot puts a hand on my arm.

“Lucy,” she says, so gently I could break.

But I refuse to think about Jared. Refuse to cry. It’s easier to think about the damage Storm has done. Not for a single second longer will I be a punching bag or a pawn. “He’s using us, Margot,” I say with bitterness. Anger helps me to shut down the tears threatening to leak.

“Yes, but we already knew that.”

“You don’t understand. He really used me tonight.”

“I heard.”

“What?”

“Robbie Deakins called me. He was there.”

“What?” I turn and gape, forgetting Margot’s socks for the moment. “I didn’t see him.”

“Well, he and his parents saw you. Apparently a Fox sister showing up with Nolan Storm was the talk of the town.”

“He didn’t say hello.”

“His mother wouldn’t let him. Said you were going to be in ‘wicked trouble’ for bringing a True Born to the Kain party,” Margot puts the words in air quotes.

“Those hypocrites! You know they all do business with Storm, don’t you?”

“Yes. I do. So why are you so mad?”

It explodes from me. “Because he didn’t tell me what he was up to. I was just…waylaid.”

“Could you really not guess what it would be like?”

I sit on the bed beside my sister. “I suppose I didn’t really think it through.

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