Betrayed by Blood: The Shelton Family Legacy : 1 by L.A. McGinnis

Author:L.A. McGinnis [McGinnis, L.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fools Journey Press
Published: 2021-03-31T05:00:00+00:00

20

“My name’s Winter.”

The blond was sitting across from my bunk when I woke up the next morning, waiting for me to open my eyes. For a second, I couldn’t speak, the horrors of last night washing through me like dirty water.

“I totally forgot Max was on night shift. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have taken your bunk,” she explained quietly. For a second, her eyes drifted to the door, then back to me, her intense stare turning somber. “It’s kind of like a hazing thing, kicking the new girl out of her bed. Except we never do it on the nights Max is on duty.

“I forgot,” she said again, as if asking forgiveness.

“It’s okay.”

Before, I had a long laundry list of tasks. Now I only had one. Get the hell out of this barrack before Max came back on shift. “How do I get transferred to gen pop? He… Max… told me if I wasn’t in my bed, that I’d be transferred. Obviously, that was a lie.”

Winter rolled her eyes. “Yeah, he tells every new girl that. But gen pop is worse than in here. You have another four weeks, then you go mainstream. I’ve got less than a week, and I’m already dreading it.”

“I don’t care,” I insisted, throwing my legs off the side of the bed and rolling my aching shoulders. “I can’t be here in two days.”

“In that case, we’ll arrange something. A fight should do it. Then you’ll be thrown in with the wolves.” She paused, looking me up and down doubtfully. “Are you sure you’re up to it?”

“Have to be. I can’t exactly funnel all of that electricity in his nightstick. If I could, this would be a different story.” Yeah, I’d reduce Max to cinders, then blow him into the wind. “How did he know electricity would work on me? If I was a Cronus, that wouldn’t have had an effect.”

“Max gets everyone’s records when they come in.” A slight wind lifted her hair. She was a Cronus, maybe a level one or two. Not powerful enough to protect herself with her magic, but enough she’d ended up in here. “With me, he used drugs. But I came to, halfway through. He knocked me out with a punch to the face.”

“We should kill him,” I said matter-of-factly, “before he touches another girl.”

Winter shrugged. “There would just be another guard like him. What’s the point?”

I mulled over this bitter truth during breakfast and lunch. Dinner, too, and then for the entire time it took me to fall asleep. If I took Gabriel’s nano tech off of my skin, my powers would come back. Then Max would get his.

Just imagining it, I fell asleep with a smile on my face.

The next morning brought me no closer to solving the Max problem, but getting into gen pop seemed to be a done deal. Winter slid in beside me during breakfast, shoveling food in while explaining the plan. “So, Amber over there—the one with the red hair—volunteered to be your victim.

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