Outcasts by Natalie Bennett

Author:Natalie Bennett [Bennett, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BB Books
Published: 2018-05-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Assume the worst. Expect it to be even worse than that.

That’s how I was going to think of all the things Dad could’ve done. Grimm said he’d tell me on the road, and I was patient enough to wait. Besides, I wasn’t really excited to know how much shit Dad had started. Cobra’s ridiculous code talk hadn’t gone over my head. I knew full well what a coach and quarterback was.

I wasn’t surprised he’d had help from over the wall, either—just who it was helping him. Why Noah? What role did Romero have in it?

They were questions I didn’t even know if I wanted the answers to, but couldn’t afford to be naïve about.

I followed behind Grimm with a bottle of water, munching on a pack of old saltine crackers he’d procured for me out the duffel after a pee break. I had his atomic bag on my back, the straps tightened so it wasn’t slouchy. I was assuming we were about to head out; course, Grimm was being mysterious and didn’t explain it, but he’d gathered up our minimal supplies, shoving them in the bag I now carried, so that was my guess.

The sun was starting to set, giving the old hospital a creepy aesthetic. We found the chapel easily enough.

Cobra hopped up from an overturned rotten pew the moment he saw us.

“They’re here. Talk fast before I lose my signal again,” he said into a cellphone that looked more like a giant walkie-talkie with a long antenna. I hadn’t seen one of those in ages, but I’d heard they got reception best in situations like these.

“I’m sending some acolytes to Plymouth. Go to Lucy’s and she’ll have a lead waiting along with them.” Romero’s voice crackled over the line, and it didn’t take a magician to figure out he was pissed.

“From there, you do what you have to do, but I want Noah alive. I’m gonna piss on him as he bleeds out like a fucking pig over a fire.”

“I can feel the brotherly love from here,” Cobra joked.

“Are you sure about this?” Grimm asked.

“Don’t ask me stupidass questions, and Arlen, don’t fucking die.”

“Wasn’t plannin to, fucker,” I muttered.

“Smartass—” His voice cut off. I thought the line had gone dead, some secret blessin, but there were muffles in the background.

“Have fun, Arlen! I’ll be here, round, depressed, and cheering you on.” Cali’s voice boomed through the speaker loud and clear, making me smile.

“Call me when you get to Plymouth,” Romero snapped. The phone made an elongated beep and then cut off.

“Let’s go,” Grimm said, taking me by the hand.

“Where exactly are we goin, and why will there be acolytes?”

“You know where we’re going. We’re going to kill shit, girl. And wherever that is, Rome is sending us some manpower,” Cobra answered.

The surrealism of the situation was quick to sink into my mind. We were really doin this. I had wished it, I had told Grimm, and now it was happenin.

“Who has a pre-game conversation before they go

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