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She was supposed to be tucked away inside Centriole, under strict guard.
Furthermore, she was supposed to be pregnant. It was my understanding that was why I was even here.
Vitus was supposed to be helping infiltrate an entire city to find the woman sitting right in front of me.
I honed in on her stomach. She clearly wasn’t. But that didn’t necessarily mean she hadn’t been.
I’d been around women who’d lost all signs of pregnancy as soon as their baby was born. With Beth being in such an emaciated state, that could easily be the case.
“Did you have a baby?” I asked, keeping my tone soft.
She nodded her head slightly.
My gut rolled as I thought back to her condition the first night I saw her, piecing two and two together.
I asked my next question, knowing I wasn’t going to like her answer.
“What,” I started and stopped, “where is your baby, Beth?”
She lifted her shoulders in a subtle shrug and stared down at the bowl sitting between us. I wanted to reach across the table and throttle her.
“Beth. Where. Is. The. Baby?” I slowly enunciated each word.
“He’s gone,” she barely whispered.
“The baby’s gone?” I breathed out, feeling a tightening in my chest.
Did gone mean he was dead? Or had Vitus simply taken him away from her?
I told myself I didn’t want to know any details, had no desire to figure out what happened, but I knew I needed the truth.
Vitus had purposely built a whole agenda based on a lie, and I’d been swept up into his conspiracy. That in itself gave me the right to know what the hell was going on.
“Beth, can you make this make sense for me?” I twirled a finger in the air between the two of us.
Hearing voices, I glanced over my shoulder and spotted two Venom members coming down one of the halls. They were talking to one another, paying us little attention.
“Promise to help me, then I’ll tell you everything,” Beth rushed out, speaking normally for the first time since I’d sat down.
“What do you need my help with?”
I wasn’t sure how I could help her accomplish anything when we were both wards of the same prison.
Her eyes were wild, darting from the two men, then back to me. “Tonight. Cell block D.” And with that, she was gone, scooting away from the table, knocking her bowl to the floor, and all but running out of the cafeteria.
“Great,” I muttered to myself, staring into the empty hall she’d retreated down.
I debated going after her, but thought of better it. I didn’t want to draw attention to myself or overwhelm her.
The two men laughed at her expense. I remained exactly where I was as they passed behind me. From my peripheral, I saw them staring at me.
Their expressions were indifferent. I looked away before they could tell I was watching them.
The words “Savage cunt” drifted back to me as they entered the hall Beth had just gone down.
I bristled for a second before simply brushing the insult off. They could call me anything they wanted, as long as they left me alone.
I sat for a bit longer, trying to figure out what Vitus could really be up to and why he involved the Savages, continually coming up blank.
