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I grabbed another book and shuffled through the pages. “Anything weird.”
“But everything in the world is weird,” he said.
I hesitated. He might have a point. “We need a tiny portal. You’ll know it when you see it. Check the back of the shelves too. Be quick, we’re almost out of—”
A bang like a door being slammed open echoed around the library.
“The guards are here!” Jag shouted.
Chapter 12
“Lieonthefloorwith your hands on your head!” Dick Fingers shouted, his voice booming around the empty library.
My heart leaped into my throat. I dropped the book I was searching through and grabbed another.
“Look faster.”
Beverly grunted as Jag and Moe rushed into the aisle with her in their arms.
“Please don’t bite me, pretty beaver,” Moe said.
Grunting in frustration too, I pulled two handfuls of books off a shelf and glanced over the wood behind them. Nothing.
Fuck!
If I was wrong, we’d be locked up in the hole, even poor Beverly with no pool, no wood, and no salad. Jag, Elliot, and Moe would end up with a much longer sentence than their current meager one.
Ram would snitch on Juniper. She’d have to give up the life she carefully built and go on the run, assuming Ram’s people hadn’t already harmed her.
And if the Eclipses were in trouble, I wouldn’t be able to help them.
I would have fucked up the lives of everyone around me.
“Vigga, hello,” Ram said from the far side of the shelves. “How’s your—”
“Get on the floor and put your hands on your head,” yelled Dick Fingers, the biggest bastard who ever bastarded in this whole ass building full of bastardy bastards.
Ram ignored him and addressed the other guards. “Joel! Now, I know you’re not getting paid enough to be here all night. How’s your little boy? He wants a new dirt bike, correct?”
He was using his best friendly voice and despite being in prison for a while, he had endless money. This might work.
“You guys are taking bribes?” Dick Fingers said, aghast.
The library was silent for a moment, and then Joel shouted, “On the floor, inmate.”
My heart dropped. Cowards weren’t brave enough to refuse bribes or to admit that they accepted them. I kept grabbing books, flipping through them, and dropping them when I found nothing.
Footsteps echoed through the library, then Ram came around the corner of the shelf. “We need—”
He convulsed as a static sound filled the air. “Ahhh… shit,” he said and dropped to his knees.
Beverly growled and lumbered down the aisle to take cover behind my legs.
“Are you hurt? I know CPR,” Moe said, and ran to Ram’s side just as Dick Fingers yanked the taser barbs from Ram’s back and turned toward Moe.
Jag roared, a sound like a sudden crack of thunder, and threw himself on Dicky, slamming the guard into the wall. Vigga came into view, taser raised toward Jag. “Stop, or I’ll—”
I threw a book at her. It bonked into her head and she stumbled a step, cursing. I hurled another, but she ducked behind the shelf.
