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“Because then the prophecy could never come true!” she whispers.
Rooney catches my eye. We both hold back our disdain. He knows damn well how valuable she is. Three different powerful families with screwed up genes all want a piece of her.
Literally.
Paigelynn isn’t just worth more alive than dead. Her very body will save three or more lives. For someone to want to snuff her out means there’s a rogue player in the game, suddenly.
Chaos has been introduced.
“Yes,” Rooney says absentmindedly. “We couldn’t possibly let anyone stop you and your future husband from fulfilling centuries of nature crafting the perfect new era.”
She doesn’t catch the sarcasm in his tone.
“But someone out there does want to stop it! It’s the evil in the world! The bad men!” She touches my shoulder. “We cannot let them come between us!”
Rooney’s head jerks sharply. “Us?”
Ahh. There it is. We just entered uncharted territory.
Cults aren’t the only places where information is siloed.
“I made a mistake, Makiah. I should never have come here,” she whispers. “Dark forces are at work to convince me not to trust Cam.”
An uncertain look passes between them both as I hurry to find a way to fix this.
“And how did Cam come to be involved in your service, Princess?”
Rooney has no idea. That’s becoming abundantly clear. Who I am, to him, is different than who I am to Paigelynn. To Debbie. To The Basher. Each group of people I infiltrate gets a slice of me you only see through one lens.
There is no whole. Only your individual perspective.
“I learned of a conspiracy to harm our princess,” I tell him as he touches his nose, pain clearly clouding his thinking. For a split second, I consider killing him. The massacre on his face is bad enough, but Paigelynn has compromised me now. Rooney knows I’m here. I’m with her. I took her away. He knows about Jason and Malcolm, and The Basher, too.
I need to pin him down. Make him shut up. Get some kind of security that he won’t sing to the wrong people.
“Conspiracy?”
I close the distance between us and call back over my shoulder, “Paigelynn? Please go into the bathroom over there.” I nod toward a door near the window. “I need to speak to Makiah privately.”
“How do you know where his bathroom is?” she asks in a suspicious voice.
Silence dominates until she sighs, then does as told.
“Listen,” I hiss, holding his elbow. “You fuck this mission up and not only will you be dead, your entire family dies, and all your daughters end up at the Luisi auction.”
“Fuck you. Threats won’t work with me. Besides, my daughters don’t have the required genetics.”
He would absolutely have sold them off if they had.
To the highest bidder.
“No, but there’s plenty of demand for fresh meat of all kinds.”
“Don’t even joke.”
“I never joke when it comes to business. You say a word about Paigelynn and what’s going on, and I make sure the masters learn about how you touched her. You’ll get the Rudy treatment.”
“Try again. Not scared.”
