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“Don’t try to change my mind.” I said and walked past.
He shoved off the wall and followed as I turned along the hallway and headed for the smaller, secure room. A guard stood outside, scowling at the sight through the open door. I stopped, glanced over my shoulder to Riven, and shook my head.
But he didn’t leave, not right away, until I stepped up to the guard and said, “Thank you, I’ll take it from here.”
What was it with these men? The guard turned his scowl toward me, but I ignored it as I walked through the door and into the room.
The Son sat on the floor in almost the same spot I’d left him last night. But then he lifted his busted face and found me through the slit of one swollen eye.
“Daughter,” He croaked. “Told you you’d come back.”
“Jesus Christ.” I jerked forward and sank to my knees beside him.
I didn’t even think about how dangerous he was at that moment, nor did I care how close I was. I grasped his jaw carefully and turned his head. His cheek was split open, by the gaping wound it looked like from a ring of some kind. But Tobias didn’t wear a ring, not that I remembered at least.
“Why do you care, I’ll be dead soon anyway.”
The way he said it hit me hard. My chest tightened and my fingers trembled. I swallowed hard. “Don’t say that.”
“Why not? It’s true, isn’t it?” He glanced at the open door. “It’s only a matter of time. Doesn’t matter anyway. I’m good to go now…now I’ve seen you.”
Surprise hit me. I froze, my fingers still curled against his bloody cheek. It wasn’t love that I felt…but it was something. “What is it that connects us?”
He gave a soft shrug.
“You know what I’m talking about, don’t you? You feel this, right?”
He didn’t answer, but that piercing stare never wavered. He felt it.
“We were created in a lab, then handed over to those who ran the orphanages. They kept us together for a while, did you know that? Sons and Daughters, in the same place. Just long enough for us to understand we were connected somehow. Maybe it was what they did to us when the eggs were fertilized, maybe it was that soul-sucking place. All I know is that when they broke us apart, it was the most brutal day of my entire life. Far worse than today…however it plays out.”
He was talking about his expected death.
And still, the day he was ripped away from the Daughters had hurt more.
“Why?” The word slipped free.
“Because they kept us alive after. When I die, I’m free, free of this world and their control.”
That ache moved higher, thickening my throat until it was painful.
“You’ll never get in, you know that, don’t you?”
The words were so quiet I barely heard them.
“Get in?”
“The warehouse where Hale is…or he was, at least.”
I shook my head, hating how my voice was choking. A tear slipped down my cheek and I turned my head, swiping it away.
“Unless I tell you how.”
I swung my gaze back to his. To that slither of darkness between his bloodied swollen lids. Panic rose instantly, making me shake my head and look toward the door. “Don’t then.”
“Don’t?”
“Don’t tell us. I know it’s crazy. It’s all we want, all everyone wants. To get inside and put a bullet in Hale’s head and every other bastard who stands with him. But you and I know what will happen if you do.”
