Venom and Earth by Turnbull Jessica

Author:Turnbull, Jessica [Turnbull, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: apr 2020, needs an amazon review
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2020-04-14T04:00:00+00:00

17

Chapter Seventeen

“I want that bread cooked to perfection, Marco. If not, you’ll get punished.” Rayna swings her hand around in a quick circle, generating an electric current.

“I get it,” Marco mumbles, flicking his wrist to increase the amount of fire shooting from his hands.

With a satisfied smirk, Rayna exits the kitchen and slams the door behind her.

“I hate it here,” Braith whines, shuffling another lump of ice into a plastic bag.

With a sigh, he mumbles: “Me too.”

The heat in the kitchen makes his skin crawl, and the amount of work that Rayna has given them is arduous. One hundred loaves of bread to be made from scratch by just the two of them, while Braith also has to make bags of ice. All in a tiny closet with an oven and fridge that are both broken. The worktops were covered in dirt, so they spent a good chunk of their morning cleaning.

“I hope Hazy is okay. Javier gives me the creeps.”

Marco curls his lip at the thought of the tall man. He didn’t trust his intentions one bit. He stared at Hazel as if she were a piece of meat.

“He’s an ass,” is all he can say.

Braith raises an eyebrow. “She wouldn’t-”

“I know; it’s not her I’m concerned about. He doesn’t seem like the type to accept a refusal.”

She moves on from bagging ice to knead some of the dough left over, rubbing sweat off her forehead with a floury arm. “Are you gonna submit one of the application things?”

“Are we staying that long?” With another flick of his wrist he turns down the heat as the smell of burning bread fills his nostrils.

“Definitely not. I spoke to Draca last night. He said he can find us somewhere better to stay. But…” She stops kneading the dough and stares at it emptily. “I don’t want to leave these people like this.”

“What do you mean?”

“I want to help them. You saw how skinny Annalise and Dejen were last night… I don’t want to leave them like that.”

With a disbelieving snort, he replies: “How can we help them? It’s the three of us versus the entire community here.”

She taps the table with a dirty finger impatiently. “Draca told me that although the markings are beacons, they can also heighten our elements.”

Intrigued, he stops cooking the bread and turns to face her. “What do you mean?”

She sighs and kicks the floor in frustration. “I mean that Hazy and I can heighten our elements into something stronger. If used, we could defeat these guys easily.”

“Sounds convenient. How do you use it?”

“That’s it,” she shrugs. “Draca said that we need to be emotional enough.” She narrows her eyes. “No period jokes.”

“Come on, I know better than to joke about periods,” he protests. “Do you think you can use it?”

“I… I don’t know,” she admits. “When I found out that Olwen died, I didn’t use it then.”

“But you didn’t know about it.”

“I s’pose.” Her eyes drop to the floor, and Marco is surprised to see that her usual enthusiasm has faded in her brown eyes.

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