Risen (The Firebird Trilogy Book 2) by Harbon Stephanie

Author:Harbon, Stephanie [Harbon, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2016-01-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

“Sometimes I wonder,” I said as we made our way back to Jayson’s place. “If it would have been better if I’d never found out.

“If you never found out what?” Jayson asked from beside me.

“You know,” I said, waving my hands nonsensically; as if that would enable his understanding. “About everything. About Kariak and me and Lynk and everything else.”

“But you’ve said before that you’d never go back.” he pointed out casually.

“Yeah,” I sighed. “I wouldn’t now. But it still probably would’ve been easier. I never thought it would be like this. Everything here just seems to be against me. What with Lynk and Silva. And now even the Elder is demanding I risk my life again. And with Blaze too.”

I shuddered at his name, biting my lip to stop it shaking. I could not describe how much I hated that repulsive, terrifying man.

“I don’t like him.” Jayson said, in an uncharacteristically dark and dangerous voice. “The way he looks at you... I could kill him for it. I think Kieran would have cut off his testicles by now.”

“Do you realise who he is?” I wondered.

Jayson nodded. “Yeah, he must be that guy who attacked you before. I clicked on when that woman removed the tracker on your arm. Only the person who puts it on can take it off.”

“Everything’s so dangerous here,” I muttered grumpily. “And everyone wants something from me. I have that many deals and worries spinning around in my head that I might collapse from the extra weight.”

“Ruby,” Jayson frowned. “You’re wallowing.”

“You’d wallow too if you were me,” I huffed.

“Well it’s not going to help, is it?” he snapped, unexpectedly harsh. “Come on. You’re the strongest person I know. You’ll get through this.”

I looked up at him in acute scepticism. “Do you really think that?”

“Of course.” He growled, angry at my self-doubt. “I mean, look at the rest of us. We’re hardly amazing at coping, are we?”

I gazed at him confusedly. “What do you mean?”

“Well Kieran’s an addict with an attitude worse than his criminal record. Adrian shuts himself away so much that you can only get about three decent words out of him a day. And I betrayed my greatest friends to the one man I knew would kill them all, because I was so cut up that they were going to leave me. That they never thought of me.”

I could see the pain in his eyes and I remembered distantly his words from that conversation with Kieran, while I was half-wake in the tent. You never gave me a choice though, did you? That’s what he’d said to Kieran.

Jayson was betrayed too; just in a different way.

We were both quiet for a moment, until eventually I sighed. “You’re right; I’m moping. I’m sorry.”

Jayson relaxed into his usual easy-going smile that I loved so much. “It’s okay. I’ll let you off.” He nudged me, grinning. “I suppose.”

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