Love and Decay_Revolution_Episode Eleven by Rachel Higginson

Author:Rachel Higginson [Higginson, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reckless Siren Publishing
Published: 2019-04-18T23:00:00+00:00

Three

Matthias ditched his chair at the end of the hallway. A goon was there to hand him his cane. We continued on foot, slowly, with difficulty, but stubbornly as well.

I felt Tennison’s eyes on the back of my head while I walked between the two men, but I refused to turn around and ask him what his problem was. I didn’t want him to know I noticed. Also, I didn’t want Matthias Allen to catch on to the curious way this man behaved.

Or maybe he knew.

Maybe this was all part of whatever sick and twisted game Matthias was playing.

We wound through the enormous house, Matthias looking pained and uncomfortable with each step. Impatience pounded in my head until a headache crawled into my skull and made camp.

I didn’t know where I expected him to take me, but into his bedroom was the last place on the list. I’d been trying to catalog as many details as possible and this seemed like an important one, but my nerves had turned the food I’d just eaten to ash in my gut.

Why were we here?

What was he going to do to me?

Thankfully, we bypassed the sitting room, the bed and the bathroom and headed for a set of doors that opened to the outside. Stepping out into the crisp evening air jolted my mind back to reality and what it was Matthias had brought me here for.

“This is the evil you seem so intent to pin on me,” he said with a flourish of his hand.

I sucked in a breath at the view sprawled out in front of me. Taking careful steps to the edge of the balcony, I gripped the cool stone wall and stood in awe of real-life civilization.

Warm lights lit up the spaces where people lived, dotting the horizon as far as I could see. Matthias’s house was high enough on a hill that I could spot movement on the roads nearest us, even though the sun had set and darkness had fallen.

People weren’t afraid to walk around at night. They weren’t even quiet about it. Nobody doused their lights and hid. The city wasn’t gripped with fear of what roamed behind their walls. There was no sense of urgency to protect themselves. They just lived.

The wall stretched on and on and on around the city. In the places closest to us, I could see armed guards pacing or standing strong at the lookout tower. Spotlights swept back and forth over the uninhabited area beyond the wall, looking, searching, protecting.

“Could you do this, Parker?” Matthias asked from behind me. For a fleeting second, I entertained the idea of shoving him over the balcony, but I quickly dismissed it. He wasn’t close enough. He’d hung back, near to the door leading inside.

Maybe he knew me better than I wanted to admit.

Maybe he had better instincts than I gave him credit for. I mean, to be fair, I was totally contemplating shoving him over the railing. So, it wasn’t like he was wrong…

His question rang through the air, stinging my skin wherever it landed.

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