Infinite Dark (The Volkranian Chronicles Book 2) by Page Morgan

Author:Page Morgan [Morgan, Page]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2021-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

My lungs suddenly shrink to the size of acorns. He’s right. They’re here because of me. Because of Rowan and those two days in October when everything had changed forever.

“No, Sam,” my mom tries to say, but he talks over her.

“I brought you into my home. Trusted you.”

“I…I didn’t think it mattered anymore,” I say, even though I know everything that comes out of my mouth is going to sound like an enormous pile of horse manure to him. “He was gone. Or at least I thought he was and there was no reason the Volkranians would ever talk to me again, or search for me.”

“Rowan.” Sam spits the name like it’s a joke. My mom must have told him everything. “Your alien boyfriend.”

“Stop it,” I say, my temper rising. “Arguing isn’t going to help us. We need to get out of here.”

I start to walk the perimeter of the room, looking for anything that could help. Another exit. A button to push. Anything. I find an oval plate like the one Kronan had passed his hand over.

“There is no way out,” Sam barks. “This isn’t the goddamned movies. And that—” he says when I swipe my palm over the oval plate. The wall disappears, simply vanishes, to reveal a smaller room. “—is a bathroom. Nice of them, right? At least we can piss in private.”

He’s angry. Okay. I get that. I’m angry, too, and scared and feeling guilty as hell. But this cannot happen.

“They must have taken more humans,” I say, refusing to glance at Sam. “Did you see Kronan’s expression? He was practically laughing at the idea of only taking four of us.”

“Kronan?” my mom repeats. At least she doesn’t sound like she’d like to bite my head off.

“Rowan’s brother. Younger brother, I think. He’s Inoori, like Rowan, though Rowan didn’t know. He was stolen as a baby,” I try to explain, but with every word, Sam’s expression darkens.

“I don’t give a rat’s ass what happened to poor Rowan,” he says. “All I care about is getting Hayden to safety.”

He sends a soft, apologetic glance to my mom. Good. At least he’s only a little angry with her for keeping my secrets.

“I thought you were the one saying there was no way out,” I reply.

“Yeah, well, didn’t you hear Khan over there? Us humans make good laborers. So let’s get to work.”

He scans the dark gray walls, running his hands over them and feeling for god knows what. I go into the bathroom and start doing the same thing. There’s a toilet bowl, kind of like the one on Volkron Six I once used. A standing urinal that a person is supposed to straddle. There’s a sink, a counter, and even a wastebasket.

My eyes trip over it.

On Volkron Six, the wastebasket in Rowan’s bathroom had been a kind of automatic laundry chute. He’d tossed a used towel into the basket and the bottom had opened and sucked the towel down before sealing again.

I don’t see any towels or toilet paper, and the sink counter is bare as well.

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