Off Balance by Aileen Erin

Author:Aileen Erin [Erin, Aileen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ink Monster, LLC

Chapter Twenty

AMIHANNA

I paced back and forth. Back and forth.

This wasn’t a jail cell. My mother was in here with me. Roan was in here with me. Eshrin and my guards were in here, too. The walls weren’t decorated with shit and vomit and blood. It wasn’t the same as the jail cell I’d been in before, but it felt the same.

The walls were closing in, and I paced back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth.

I was breathing. I was moving. I was living, but I’d been here before. My house had been bombed before. I’d lived through years of hiding in fear and running from place to place, but this is where it started. One bombing.

Was it happening again?

Could I live through it again?

I definitely didn’t think I could hide again, even if my face wasn’t plastered over every news outlet across the universe.

I passed the couch and tables and sitting area with vidscreens. I hit the wall twenty feet away and spun right. Thirty feet to the kitchenette. I kept walking down the narrow hallway with three rooms. And then I spun back around. Pacing all the way to the exit door.

Eshrin, Komae, and another guard I didn’t really know were here, but the rest of the guards were searching for any signs of another attack. I wasn’t sure how long I’d been down here—every second trapped felt like minutes—but I wasn’t going to be able to stay here for long.

My vision blurred along the edges as I tried to pace faster than the thoughts that moved through my mind.

This could be a one-off attack, but I’d heard what they said about me on the news today. This wasn’t an anti-halfer or an anti-Earther plot. This was an anti-Amihanna plot. They wanted me gone.

It’d been bad enough when SpaceTech and the Earthers targeted us, but to have the focus on just me was entirely different.

I’d promised two days ago that I’d stay, and now I might have to break it. Because I couldn’t stay on Sel’Ani when everyone wanted me gone.

I wasn’t going to risk my life to fight in a war for people who wanted me dead.

And they’d made it pretty fucking clear that they wanted me dead today.

I couldn’t wrap my mind around that. To truly, personally want someone dead? Only one person held that honor in my mind, but Jason Murtagh deserved my hatred. He’d earned it the second he put his hands on me. The second he threw me into jail. The second he tried to have me killed on Abaddon.

I paced faster as I tried to shove the burning anger deep, deep, deep inside of me, but it wasn’t working.

This wasn’t working.

I had done nothing to the Aunare to warrant such hatred. I’d beaten their hardest test and proven myself worthy of ruling. I opened myself up. I’d exposed my pain, my past. And that had them coming after me?

Fuck that.

Fuck them.

They bombed my room. As far as I was concerned, they could rot in their war against SpaceTech.

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