Resurrection by Katherine Macdonald

Author:Katherine Macdonald [Macdonald, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-22T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 39

For the second time in just as many days, I actually do as Rudy has instructed and round up the chimeras for another practise session. Joni is incredibly apologetic, so I have him target practising all morning as a “punishment.” It isn’t, not really. He just feels he needs to do something to make up for his momentarily panic, and the practising builds his confidence, which is all he was really lacking. In some ways, his nerves make me happy; it means he wasn’t drilled as hard as I was at the Institute. But I also remember how nervous I was, when I took on my first solo job here in the slums. Only difference was I didn’t care if I impressed the person I was stealing for.

Oh, and if I failed, my family would struggle, maybe starve.

Joni never has to feel that. I won’t let him.

A few more days pass. I continue to hone my fire powers in the basement, training the chimeras inside the gym and out on the streets. One sunny afternoon, I even take them into the wilderness with me, and we practise tracking. Gabe comes with us then; it’s the most relaxed I’ve seen him since we arrived, although all of that is lost when I tell him about Abe.

“He knows who you are? Where we live?” he asks, his face grave.

I chew my lip. “I’m not sure. I never told him, but–”

“He’ll tell the rest of Luca you’re alive.”

“Does it matter? They’ll find out at some point–”

“It’ll bring the Institute down on our heads–”

“Phoenix won’t let that happen.”

Gabe sighs, swallowing a groan. “You never used to be this reckless. This trusting.”

“You’re right. I didn’t. And I was miserable.”

“You’re miserable now!”

Barely contained pain rises within me. “Yes,” I tell him. “I am. But for a different reason.”

“Is it?” Gabe says slowly. “Because I think it’s the same thing. You trusted the wrong person.”

My fist swings from my side and hits him squarely in the jaw. Nick was not the wrong person.

“I don’t care how well you know me,” I hiss. “You have not been here for five years. Things have happened.”

“You know,” says Gabe, rubbing his jaw, “I was beginning to figure that out.”

He grabs his bow –my bow– and stomps off into the wilderness.

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