Damian: I took it once, not fun.
Josh: Confidentiality agreement, Damian.
Me: So now he can’t talk about it?
Josh: Not if he wants to stay on the hill.
*Rian left the chat*
*Marcus added @thedarkseed to the chat*
Rian: Fuck you all.
Josh: We love you too.
Damian: You might I don’t.
Marcus: Yeah, talk for yourself, Khfrvtftdrat.
Josh: Strike one, Mar. Even I know that means bastard.
Josh: Who told you how to spell that?
I leave the chat. Damian puts me back on it but I change screens to my own chat with the security team. Everything is in check so I open the chat I dread. Love’s father’s chat. I check she’s still asleep, and when I’m sure she is, I click on Vance’s name. He sent the last message two hours ago.
Vance: Is Dylan dealt with?
Me: Everything is covered, including alibis for everyone involved. Even though his body will never be found, Karl covered it, he doesn’t disappoint. Is Liot dealt with?
Vance responds in about two minutes.
Vance: For now. I need you back home, he’s planning something. I don’t trust the island's security. You mighthave insiders as well.
Me: No insiders.
Vance: Liot knows how to bribe security, get my daughter home or I will.
Me: Understood. Consider it dealt with, sir. We’ll be in Cilinm tonight.
I need him to like or at least accept me, so I need to do this. I take Love in my arms she squirms and almost wakes up, but I shush her and call Karl telling him to get the jet ready. He tells me thirty minutes, I say fifteen and move to the room. I enter the Sinners Hill chat and text “Pack your stuff, we’re leaving in fifteen”.
I lay Love on the bed and start packing our stuff, no need to wake her up yet. She’s sleeping peacefully but sometimes she softly moans, I don’t know if it’s nightmares so I shush her every time.
“Dom? What are you doing? Where are you going?” Love asks and I look at my clock I have 9 minutes to leave, so I text the guys to meet me at the aeroplane, and grab Maya and Sammy on the way. Karl will escort our things out. I hear footsteps outside, they’re all home, good.
“We’re going home,” I whisper and help her up, she’s still clearly dizzy from just waking up. “Can you walk?” I question, she assents, I hold her hand and move outside.
“Is everything ok?” she asks concerned and I nod, but still get my hidden weapon from the entrance’s fake wall.
“Our position might’ve been compromised so we mustleave,” I say unlocking the gun and moving out.
The truth is that in those 6 minutes Vance found evidence that proves we might, in the slightest possibility, be at risk, but I’m not taking any chances.
I move outside and almost shoot Rian when he appears from behind us.
“Calm down, Ricik, this isn’t civil war, you’re going to alert everyone else,” Rian says pointing my gun at the ground. I keep it loose in my hand. He’s right. If anyone sees us leaving in a hurry there are going to be questions and four hundred people also wanting to flee. “You ok, Love?” Rian asks and I hold her hand tighter when I feel her heart race.
“Yes, just nervous,” she responds, and whispers “I have a bad feeling about this” to Rian. I’m not sure I was supposed to hear it. So I hold the gun loosely, but ready to shoot in a short span of time. I walk to the security complex, with Love by my side, and Rian on her other side. “Does my father know?” Love questions, I nod.
