FALLING (FADE Series #2) by Gow Kailin

Author:Gow, Kailin [Gow, Kailin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: theEDGEbooks.com
Published: 2011-11-14T06:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

Richard actually looks a little sad as Grayson steps forward to berate him. Maybe he wasn’t expecting it. Maybe it’s just the betrayal of it, his own son siding with the Underground. The Others don’t open fire though. I guess that’s partly because of the walls of the glass cube, which, if they’re anything like those back at the Underground will be tougher than they look, but maybe it’s also because Richard doesn’t want his son hurt.

“You know,” Sebastian says, moving to back Grayson up and nodding towards my family through the glass walls of the room. “You’ve really crossed the line here, Richard, bringing in innocent civilians like this. These people don’t even know why they’re here.”

Richard shakes his head. Beside him, my family stand still, guarded closely by a trio of the Others, all with guns trained on them. “They know,” he says. “And they’re part of this. They’re with Celestra Caine.”

“Really?” Sebastian asks, without raising his voice. He looks over to where Bailey stands and points at me. “You, young man, do you know who this young woman is?”

Bailey looks nervous. He would. He’s surrounded by armed people, in a situation he knows nothing about. I’m almost proud of him when he manages to shake his head. Proud, and a little sad. I’ve known in theory that my family won’t remember me, but seeing the truth of it like this is something different. It hurts, even though I know that right now, it could be the thing that keeps Bailey safe. If there’s no connection to me, then there’s no leverage. There’s no reason to want to kill them, if that won’t have any effect on me.

“What about you two?” Sebastian asks, looking at my parents now. They seem as blank as Bailey was. “Do you remember her?”

“Of course they do,” Richard snaps, not giving them a chance to answer. “She’s their daughter. They raised her for seventeen years. They know everything about her.”

It’s my father who answers. “Sorry, I don’t know who you think we are, but…”

“You’re her parents. She is your daughter.”

“We don’t have a daughter,” my mother says, and it’s heartbreaking now, even as I know that she isn’t doing it to hurt me. She simply doesn’t remember, but that’s what hurts. “I don’t think we’ve even met this girl before.”

I want to cry, but I know I can’t. If I cry, it will show how much they mean to me. If I cry, it will show the Others that what they’re doing is working. Grayson moves to put an arm around my shoulders for comfort. Jack doesn’t move, but then, he probably gets how important it is to minimize the connection between me and my family right now. He’s also busily watching the Others, readying himself for the fight he knows must be coming.

I try not to think about that fight. The Underground’s Faders have plenty of guns, but so do the Others, and they have us surrounded out in the open, where they could potentially cut us down with a burst of bullets.

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