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Rory frowned and tilted her head. “That’s quite sad. Now I know why you keep getting betrayed by your actual family.”
What a bitch. If looks could kill, Bella’s glare would have decimated Aurora.
“I don’t want to be the one to break up an overdue family reunion, but you don’t have to know her,” Amo interrupted. “She’s your blood, like Star is mine. That may not mean anything to the Savages, but we aren’t you.”
“Clearly,” Bella muttered.
“Back to task, are we doing this or not?” Amo questioned. “I have other things I could be doing otherwise.”
Luce smirked coolly. “Do you even have a plan, or are you just rushing in and slaughtering shit?”
“If you want a plan, get it from my sister. Star knows the layout even better than I do and deserves to decide what happens to the majority of them.”
At that, I felt every eye in the room shift to me. “What about the girls?” I asked, since Amo was clearly not concerned about them.
“I only want a few and some bodies to carve up. Help yourselves to the leftovers”
Well, I didn’t know where to begin with that callous statement. He’d said my name with genuine affection, but he was coldly detached about everything else. My brother was healthy and alive, but he was a total stranger to me now.
There wasn’t anything I could about that, though.
I didn’t see us sitting down to play catch up anytime soon. It was a miracle the room hadn’t become a bloodbath yet. The tension between these factions was stifling.
Cam and Rory were staring at one another with equal amounts of interest and hostility. Bella had diverted her attention to something on the other side of the room, still refusing to pay any to Amo. I felt caught right in the middle, but I knew exactly which side I would stand on if all hell broke loose.
“What do you think?” Luce asked.
It took effort to hide the shock over him seriously asking me to choose.
Amo was right, I did know A.R.C. I grew up there. The girls were my main concern. Not all of them would survive this world, but at least this was giving them a chance to try.
As for the A.R.C itself…
I looked over at Luce. “I want to burn it down.”
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
Sometimes silence has a way of explaining what words can’t.
I don’t think anyone was ready to discuss what had just happened. They’d just had a few bombs dropped on them all at once. Cam looked lost in his own head. I’m sure he was trying to process that he had a new sibling, and the added death threat leveled against Lilith.
Bella was staring out the window.
I’m sure she was more than likely thinking about her friend and whatever had occurred between her and Amo.
Luce was Luce. Ahead of the rest of us, mapping out exactly what was going to go down.
It was growing dark, and we were approaching the wooded area that would take us to A.R.C. The Stags and Lazar
us may go running in without any kind of plan, but I knew that wasn’t how the Savages typically did things. Which was why they were at the top and no one else was.
When Ice reached where we would have to continue by foot, he switched the car off and cut the headlights. The acolytes followed his lead. I peered through the break in the trees, the darkening woods seeming larger than I remembered.
I had never gone towards the A.R.C. I’d always wanted to run away from it.
“Amo and Aurora will go through the back,” Luce said suddenly.
“How do you know that?”
