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Had it just been a rote speech to rally the recruits? To steel their spines?
No way to know now.
But he really had seemed to believe it.
Maybe back then, when she was a raw, green recruit, maybe she’d believed it too?
She didn’t know what she believed anymore.
It had long since become just a job.
A calling? A duty? Please.
Too often, it was something else.
Unsavory at best, borderline wrong at worst.
And yet…
In the years she’d been doing the job, Tallis’ words had begun to ring hollow.
She didn’t knoweverythingthe FMB was involved with, but she knew enough.
If they didn’t do it though, thingswouldspin out of control. There were forces, and movements, andfuries,the true power of which she could never understand even as an FMB agent, let alone a citizen.
So, she and her fellow agents stood in that breach. They guarded against those furies, directed them, corralled them. Kept them separate.
From humankind.
Unless it’s handing over one of your own to those same furies.
She couldn’t remember the last time she’d had any sort of true moral ambivalence about what it was they were doing with those unfortunate females.
It was just how things were.
Sure, she might feel sorry for them if they didn’t want to go—and some of them definitely didn’t—but there wasn’t really a choice in the matter.
It was like feeling sorry because you had black hair instead of blonde.
And it made no sense to lament it.
“Jesus Christ, Stacy. You’re comparing being handed over to the alphas to being unhappy with your fuckinghaircolor?” She shook her head. “How far have you fallen? Is that all this means to you?”
At times, ithad—and those instances were becoming more common. That they were just omegas, after all.
Sucks to be them, right?
She sneered at herself, the upwelling of shame, of sheepishness at that thought washing over her, if only for a moment.
Perhaps she wasn’t that callous… yet.
She wasn’t quite inured to what it was she did, day in and day out. But she was close.
But what had just happened?
It had fuckedeverythingup. It was a disaster.
And it had left her reeling.
