Delta (Cell Block Brides Book 1) by Cass Carlton

Author:Cass Carlton [Carlton, Cass]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-14T05:00:00+00:00

12

Bianca

I knelt there, more confused than ever. It was so easy to think of him as some stereotype, somebody with a beef against the government and conformity and whatever else the problem was. It was easy to brush off his concerns as something that would never bother me because I wouldn’t make my home on his planet. But when he told me about his parents, he humanized himself.

I could relate.

I hated that I could, because it only made my job harder. He had been through so much already.

“You all right?” he asked. His hand was on my hair, smoothing it away from my face.

“I’m fine. And I’m sorry I flipped out back there. It’s not my business what you do.”

“But I get why you did,” he admitted.

His touch was tender, gentle. “It must’ve been a shock to see him the way he was. I hated being the one who did it to him—I want you to know that. I really hated it. Del was sure we could’ve gotten him to break sooner if I was harder on him, but I couldn’t do that.”

“Harder?”

“You know what I mean. If I hurt him.”

“Oh. So you have scruples?” I asked with a soft laugh.

“I do. You know I do.” He frowned. “I’m not joking. I’m not the same as Orson and the thugs who work for him. Like the ones who took my parents away. That’s not me.”

“I’m sorry,” I whispered. “I shouldn’t tease like that. I know you’re better than him. I do know that.”

He sighed. “I hate that it’s so important to me that you understand how different we are. I’ll do a lot of things to get what I need. I’ll steal a ship and lock up the crew and even starve them if I have to, but I wouldn’t cross the sort of lines he crosses. I won’t be the way he is. None of us will, those of us who really care about taking him down and returning things to the way they used to be.”

His eyes glowed with an almost manic intensity—instead of turning me off or making me question his sanity, they sparked something deep in my soul.

I had never felt about anything the way he did. I wished I had something in my life to feel so passionate about. It wasn’t clear to me until just then how much time I’d spent rudderless, floating along, unsure of what to do or how or why.

“What’s it like, believing in something the way you do?”

He smiled. “You’re kidding, right?”

I only shook my head.

“You’ve never cared about something or believed in something?”

I shook my head again. “We didn’t even have religion in my family when I was growing up. There was nothing. Life was just life. I went to school, I had a few friends. We didn’t even really do holidays, special occasions. There was no money for that, and my parents worked too much to have the time anyway. I pretty much raised myself.”

“So you weren’t saying goodbye to much on Earth, is what you’re saying.

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