Mind's Horizon by Eric Malikyte

Author:Eric Malikyte [Malikyte, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Astral Lands Press
Published: 2019-10-30T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

The rattling and shaking caused Ira's head to shoot up. She struggled to remember why she wasn't in her cot; once she saw the iron bars, she remembered. She was in a detention room, one of two scattered throughout the facility that Mathias had helped her find.

The clanking was coming from Nico, banging on the bars from within his cage.

"Let me out of here," he said.

She really wished she could. "I can't do that."

His knuckles turned white with his grip around the bars. "You better unlock this cage right now, Ira. I'm not fucking playing!"

"Or what?"

He bared his teeth and slammed his arm against the bars. "Let me out!"

"Did you kill Eddy?"

"Are you fucking kidding me?"

Her grip tightened on the metal seat. "Answer the question."

"You know that I didn't kill him! Lena's still getting vitals from him!"

"Actually, no, she isn't, they flatlined last night, probably about the time you showed up in the lounge in your long johns."

"What the hell makes you think I killed him?"

"Think about it, Nico. You fought for the Feds, he fought for the Revolutionists. You may have tolerated him for his abilities, but deep down we both know that you hated him."

He was quiet for a moment. His cold, calculating green eyes searched the room, searched her.

"That doesn't mean that I'd just kill him, and besides, you have no proof."

"What about the blood on your long johns, or the scratches on your collarbone?" She shook her head; it took everything she had to hold her composure together in front of him. There was a time when he would only have to bark an order, and she would have followed it without question. For so many years she had been ordered around by him and stomped on by so many others. She was done being led around by the whims of others, done being made to follow someone else's plan. "I told you that I got the security cameras running, remember? One of the first feeds I saw was you, coming out of some dark room in your long johns, sweating profusely."

Nico backed away from the bars and fell back on the barren, stiff bed inside the cell. He gripped at his prosthetic leg and smiled wryly. He must have put it back on when she was asleep.

"You went straight for my prosthetic," he said. "That was pretty smart."

Was he actually proud of her? "Answer my question."

"I can't."

"Why the hell not!" She jumped from her chair and approached the bars. "You owe me an explanation!"

"I owe you nothing!"

She stopped just short of arm’s reach from the bars. "You knew how I felt about him!"

"If it weren't for me, you'd all be corpses six feet under the snow. So. Yes. You owe me your trust, your loyalty, if not for the fact that we are family, then for the fact that I've saved your life more times than I can fucking count!"

"The wound in his throat." The air in that dead chamber seemed to freeze when she said it.

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