Chasm by Christina Garner

Author:Christina Garner [Garner, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Christina Garner

Floating in a golden sphere as I was, it was impossible to say how much time had passed when the truck began to slow. I opened my eyes and saw that we hadn’t arrived anywhere, we were simply pulling off the road, parking behind a dark sedan.

From the passenger side emerged a woman with closely cropped raven hair. She was dressed all in black and wearing sunglasses. In the middle of the night.

My heart beat wildly in my chest.

Calm down, Ember, keep it together. You knew there would be Reds. They didn’t go to all this trouble just to kill you now.

I forced my breath to slow, forced my fingers to unclench.

The woman flowed more than walked toward the truck.

“The key?” she said. Her accent was French, but more throaty and less musical than the Parisians I’d heard.

Giancarlo produced the key to the handcuffs and tossed it to her.

She snatched it out of the air and said, “You will give me no trouble.”

It wasn’t a question, but I shook my head anyway.

Not unless I suddenly get my powers back, and then all bets are off, bitch.

She smiled which served to only make me more frightened, and undid my wrists. That she was a Red became certain when she easily lifted me from the cab of the truck and deposited me on the ground. Even Giancarlo’s eyes widened in surprise. Could he really have been so stupid as to now know what betraying the trust of the Institute would lead to? If they got what they wanted, he was signing his own death warrant as much as mine.

Just as quickly as the cuffs had come off, they went back on, this time forcing my hands behind my back. The woman tossed Giancarlo a thick roll of Euros.

“Spend it quick,” I said, surprised that my voice, while bitter, was calm. “You won’t be alive much longer.”

He sneered and jumped over the side of the truck, wincing as he landed, which gave me a small measure of satisfaction. He climbed into the cab next to the driver and they drove off, leaving a cloud of dust.

The woman deposited me in the back of the sedan and slid into the passenger seat. The driver was male, with graying hair and sunglasses.

Before I could wonder whether asking a question would be considered giving her trouble, I blurted out, “What do you want from me?”

“Do not speak,” the woman said, “unless you are asked a question.”

“Or what?” I said, feeling brazen. “If you were going to kill me you would have just had Giancarlo do it hours ago.”

My head rebounded off the headrest from the force of the woman’s backhand connecting with my cheekbone. I cried out in pain, the area immediately beginning to throb.

It had been a stupid question anyway; I already knew the answer. The only thing I could do that a Red couldn’t, that a Root Demon couldn’t, no matter how much more powerful It was than I, was open the Gateway. And

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