Rebels : The Complete Series by Alexa Riley

Author:Alexa Riley [Riley, Alexa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Minnie

Owen knew things would come to this. He predicted I would have a breaking point. But I denied it. Yoga was nonviolent. I was trying to do my part in a nonviolent way, but I’m beginning to see that might not always be the option. I’m seeing that even more now that I have a child of my own to protect. It’s already a love like I’ve never known, and it’s taking hold inside me.

I have no time to think what to do next, because the military police are checking in yet another new patient to the emergency room.

A tall man with a broken nose. None other than Chief of Staff Brad Chalmers.

I have to summon all strength to keep my fingers from shaking as I clean the blood off his face and set the cartilage in his nose without anesthesia. It was his choice to go without it. I bandage him up and put him in a wheelchair, which he doesn’t appreciate.

As soon as the radiology nurse wheels him away, I have to take a moment to breathe. Placing my hands on the counter of the exam room, I breathe in and out. Deep inhale through the nose, exhale through the mouth. The horror is coming in waves. What have I done to that woman? She was likely only doing her job. Maybe I should have talked to her. Made her see reason. But what if she would have taken me in on the spot? Made me disappear like they did my mother?

One moment I’m plotting how to raise a baby with Owen, the next I’m considering whether I should turn myself in for assault on the female Regime official. A knock on the open exam room door pulls my attention.

“I need a minute, okay?” I push past my lips.

“It’s not okay. I need you in my office. Now.”

It’s my supervisor, and she sounds pissed.

Shit. I follow her to her office.

“Sit down.” My supervisor Tina closes the door to her office. “Minnie, this is serious,” Her eyes are locked on me. My heart starts to pound and my hand protectively goes to my stomach.

“Oh god, I know. I don’t know how it happened, but I will take full responsibility…”

Tina cuts me off. “I’ll tell you how this happened. Nobody ever taught you how to act like a lady,” she says, throwing me off.

What the hell…? “I’m not sure…”

“And yes, you will be taking full responsibility for this. We have expedited your arrangement. You’ll be married next week.”

The blood drains from my face. I might faint. I try to hold back the terror. “I don’t understand what that has to do with what happened today.”

My boss is getting increasingly pissed. “Did you skip the day in nursing school when they taught you about human reproduction? You sleep around, you get pregnant. End of story.”

Oh god. She isn’t talking about the agent. But how does she know about the pregnancy already? And how dare she imply that I sleep around.

“I’m so confused right now,” I say, trying to think how she knows this already.

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