Resistance (The Institute Series Book 2) by Kayla Howarth
Author:Kayla Howarth [Howarth, Kayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-05-13T23:00:00+00:00
Chapter Twelve
Drew and I walk in to find Mum, Dad, and Shilah at the dining table, eating.
“Lia! What are you doing here?” Mum asks, surprised. She then looks to Drew before I have a chance to answer. “Sorry. We had to start without you, it was getting cold.”
“No problems, Seph. I ran into Allira on my way home. Got held up a bit.” Dad shoots us a stare. If I didn’t know Dad any better, say if he was a stranger and I saw him in a dark alley in the city and he gave me this look, I would assume I wasn’t going to make it out of that alley alive. “Talking,” Drew clarifies. “We got held up talking.” Dad doesn’t say anything and goes back to eating.
“Join us,” Mum says. I pull up the chair next to Mum as Drew sits at the head of the table, opposite Dad. Shilah seems oblivious to anything around him and keeps shovelling food in his mouth like he’s worried he won’t get enough now that he’s sharing with me as well as Drew. “How was your first day working with Cyrus?” Mum asks.
“Uh … fine,” I stutter. Geez, if I go at this rate, I’m never going to tell her about me. “Could have gone better.” I tell the nerves that have started to build in my stomach to calm down. Like Cyrus said, this will make me more valuable to them. They’re not going to be angry, right? For me lying to them? A high pitched sing-song tone starts ringing in my ears, ‘Hypocrite! H-Y-P-O-CRITE!’ Ugh.
“Did I miss you falling on your face or something?” Shilah asks. “I thought it was a pretty good day.”
“Something like that,” I reply, while shoving a fork full of charred roo meat and salad into my mouth.
“So you’re not going to elaborate?” Dad asks me.
I just shake my head and eat. I don’t have the words. Blurting out ‘I have a double ability’ seems extreme. Easing them into it by announcing ‘I have something to tell you’ seems unnatural.
“Mum?” I ask, putting my fork down.
“Uh oh. That sounds like a pretty serious ‘Mum’ tone,” she replies, smiling. If only she realised what she was saying was the truth and not so much a joke.
“What’s the plan? The big plan. The whole point to the Resistance?”
“Whoa,” she says putting down her cutlery. “This did just get serious. Why do you want to know?”
“Just something I noticed today in training. It started to make me think.”
“What did you notice?” Dad interjects into the conversation.
“I just got the feeling we aren’t really training for recruitment purposes only.”
Mum goes stiff. “What makes you say that?” she asks.
“Just a few of the things Cyrus said. Plus the fact his eldest two kids are being trained when their abilities would be absolutely no benefit in recruiting people. Actually, there’s a few like them. Also the fact that there used to be eight teams of two out there at any given point, now there’s only three.
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