Unstoppable (Their Shifter Academy Book 6) by May Dawson

Author:May Dawson [Dawson, May]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Maddie

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One of the guards had directed Jensen, me and a handful of other prisoners into the transient house. We’d have to wait for space to open up in the other barracks, which it was implied wouldn’t take long. People must be dying here; I didn’t think anyone left Elegiah on parole.

There weren’t a lot of prisoners with us. Apparently those who knew someone had already been pulled into their cabins.

I’d worried at first that the fact no one recognized us as Rebels might draw attention, but Silas had said the Rebels operated in cells. He knew his friends and a handful of sympathetic criminals and citizens who helped them, but he didn’t know the other knots of Rebels and he didn’t know everyone sympathetic to their cause either. That way, when they were captured, they couldn’t be tortured to bring the entire organization down.

When they were captured. The thought that everyone here had known they were choosing this fate or worse humbled me; had they really chosen to live their lives like this because they believed it was the only way they could save the torn universe?

It made me think I should face anything that life threw at me with the same dreamy smile and fierce heart that Silas did.

“I’m going to look for Isabelle,” I told Jensen.

“Is that a good idea?” Jensen said. Prisoners seemed to be moving freely in and out of the barracks now, so I didn’t see why I shouldn’t. “Maybe we should get the lay of the land first.”

The sooner we found our new friends, the sooner we could get out of here. Jensen was touching his shoulder absently.

“What’s wrong?” I asked.

“Got on the wrong side of the welcome committee,” he said lightly.

“Take off your shirt,” I told him.

“That’s pretty much your motto for me, isn’t it?”

“You love taking off your shirt,” I chided. “You can barely keep your clothes on. Which I don’t blame you for, given those abs, but… when you don’t want to take it off, it’s usually because you’re trying to protect me from something.”

“Me? Protective?” His brows arched as if that were ridiculous. Then he sighed and pulled his shirt over his head.

I moved to look at his back; there was a vivid bruise that ran across his shoulder, an ugly white weal of a welt at its center.

“What happened?” I asked. My first impulse was to hurt whoever had hurt him, and my second impulse was wishing I could heal him.

For a second I could’ve sworn that despite the rune on my hand, I felt magic spark at my fingertips, but the impulse must’ve provoked the ward. Pain burned through my hand and I clutched my hand under my arm, putting pressure on it as if that would ease the pain, but it did nothing.

“I put my hands in my pockets,” he said lightly. “I have a feeling there are a lot of rules here, Maddie, the kind that you only learn the hard way. I’d like for you to stay under the radar.

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