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“Go, Fish, run!” Echo cried.
A door clanged from far away and Fisher had done what Echo had begged of him.
Solomon had cleaned out and moved them all to another location that day, and it would be many years later before the three reconnected. Echo learned then that Fisher had indeed called the cops, but Solomon had been one step ahead. After that, Fisher had joined the Navy to escape recapture.
“It’s doesn’t matter if it’s by choice or force,” Rogue said, drawing Echo from whatever hell created the look in his eyes.
Out of the three of them, Echo may be broken, but he had the softest heart, which had caused more emotional harm. Even though Echo would deny it, Rogue knew better. Echo could live a good life, but only if he disappeared and stayed gone.
Loving Ice was not the answer.
Rogue thought his brother would have stayed away when he’d been gone for six years, but Echo had found his way back. He suspected Solomon had had a hand in that.
“They’re just kids. They’re like we used to be,” Echo said and Rogue shook his head.
“They stopped being kids the moment they killed.”
“Are you working here?” Echo’s voice sounded appalled, and Rogue clenched his teeth at the accusation.
“If not me, then who?” At least this way, he could keep Solomon from going overboard.
“Why the fuck did you come back?” Rogue whispered, and his eyes burned. “You were in the clear.”
“I came back because of you.”
“Me?” Rogue looked confused.
“Solomon promised to let you go if I came back.”
“Fuck that,” Rogue spat. “You idiot!”
“I know that now,” he whispered. “But we need to put an end to him,” Echo whispered. “If we’d have done it years ago, none of this would have happened.”
“How are we going to do that? He has power.”
“He can be killed,” Echo said, gripping the bars to keep their conversation low and almost inaudible.
“There’s more than just this place,” Rogue hissed, his eyes burning.
“How many more places like this are there?” Echo asked, his voice filled with shock.
“Three that I know of.” Rogue’s eyes held agony.
Echo reached through the bars and caught the back of Rogue’s neck and drew him closer. “Get me out of here and we’ll rescue them all.”
“We don’t know how many there are. What if there’s some five-year-old waiting for him to come back and feed him?” Rogue caught his arm and shook his head. Echo tightened his grip, but Rogue twisted away, taking several steps from the cage.
“We can make him give up the locations,” Echo argued.
“Don’t you think I’ve thought of that? Don’t you think I’ve dreamed of a hundred different ways to kill him? Like I said, he’s got power.” Tears stood in Rogue’s agony-filled gaze.
“I’m sorry.” Echo reached through the bars, but Rogue backed further away.
“It’s better to not fight,” his brother said with a dull voice and turned his back.
“I used to think that way too,” Echo whispered at Rogue’s back.
But he didn’t think that way now and the biggest difference was that he had Ice in his life.
