Halsey's Havoc by Brynn Hale

Author:Brynn Hale [Hale, Brynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-25T16:00:00+00:00

We stay on opposite sides of the room until the pizza arrives twenty minutes later. Keeping conversation to weather and current events only.

I dig in. Having skipped dinner last night, I’m ravenous. And I didn’t get out of bed until I was almost going to be late, sleeping for almost six hours—a miracle in itself. I showered, shaved, and was on the road all in ten minutes.

“This is good.” I motion with my piece.

She sets her half-eaten piece down and wipes her mouth as we share the couch. “You okay with us having a working lunch?”

“Shoot.”

“Tell me more about dying.”

My food creates a ball in my stomach. “Like I said, I signed on the line…and then they said they wanted to tell our families that we’re dead so if it happened it wouldn’t be…”

“Wouldn’t be what?”

“I guess a pain for Black Ice. I can only imagine the pain my mother went through and now I wonder if it was really necessary to die.”

“But you’re not dead, Macen. You’re alive.”

But my brain seems to accept the death sentence as true. And I wonder why that is.

“I live like I’m dead. All the Rebels do. And now…” I look at her. Trust. It’s hard to do when you’re always looking for reasons to distrust people’s motives and you have to examine every moment of every situation. I take a deep breath.

“It’s okay. Take your time.” She tips her head, and that long, shiny, coal black hair tumbles over her shoulder.

“The last couple of missions have gone south and it’s not because of anything we did. It seems that Black Ice…” I roll my shoulders back as the tension makes them feel like they could snap apart. Her hand rests on mine on the couch. “They don’t like us actually alive anymore.”

“Are you telling me they want you…dead?” Her voice wavers on the last word like she can barely say it.

I flip my hand over and entwine our fingers, holding her hand so tight that I have to stop myself from squeezing too hard. I don’t want to break her. I want to cherish her.

“We’re a liability because not everything we do is…legal or probably moral.” I look into those crystal blue eyes. “They don’t want us to live to tell our story.”

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