When Villains Rise by Rebecca Schaeffer
Author:Rebecca Schaeffer [Schaeffer, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781328863614
Publisher: HMH Books
Published: 2020-09-08T00:00:00+00:00
Twenty-Three
NITA WOKE UP in the late afternoon when her alarm went off. Kovit moaned beside her, and she sighed softly, unwilling to move from her position curled against his warm body.
He gave her a sleepy look. âIs it time to get up now?â
âYou can rest a little longer. Iâm going shower and get ready before we go back to the hotel.â
He nodded drowsily and nestled back into the pillow.
She rolled off the bed and stretched, her muscles stiff. She scooped up her phone and checked for messages.
There was one, from her mother.
Nita swallowed, then clicked it open.
You should come home now. Your little monster will be dead soon, it read, followed by a link to Kovitâs DUL listing.
Nita deleted the email, her hands shaking. Sheâd wondered before if her mother was responsible for Kovitâs name going up faster, if sheâd pulled strings and manipulated connections. The more she thought about it, the more sure she was. But whether it was her mother or not, her mother now knew exactly what Kovit looked like.
And she had the whole world on her side, wanting to kill him.
Nita logged out of email and forced herself to move on to more productive lines of thought. There was nothing she could do about her mother right now.
The Washington Post reporter Nita had contacted had posted the article, clearly not wanting to miss the scoop on INHUPâs misconduct. It included the photos of Kovit and his sister that Nita had sent, but it also included multiple short video clips. Some were from local Toronto news channels, some from Instagram feeds, which had obviously been found by scrolling the promotion hashtag. Kovit and Patchaya were caught on camera chatting happily in the background of dozens of videos.
Nita smiled slightly, pleased it had worked out so well.
She scrolled through the comments, some of them wondering if the clips were fake, others wondering if INHUP was trying to trap the zannie, others wondering if he even was a zannie.
Other articles had sprung up, all asking how an INHUP agent could be going on what looked like a date with a zannie. Some speculated that this was a romance gone wrong, and an INHUP agent had abused her power to put her ex-boyfriend on the list.
Nita hadnât planned for this to look like a loverâs quarrel, and she imagined some intrepid reporter would figure out the truth soon enough, but for now, she liked the romance angle. Romance gone wrong always got a lot of attention in the tabloids.
For once, the stereotypes against zannies worked in Kovitâs favor. The video clips, while short, showed him laughing and smiling and acting perfectly adorable. It was a bit of a shockâusually in public Kovit was mildly terrifying, people steering clear of him without fully understanding why. But in the video he seemed so happy and joyful, and if he had his danger aura, it didnât come through.
No one believed someone who looked so genuine could be a monster.
Nita skimmed through comments and
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