She’s innocent.
It’s for the greater good.
My fingers twitch, and I lean into moving forward, but I can’t make my legs move.
She’s going to die anyway.
“Kaida Keres!”
I whip my head around and see the bowman and drop.
Benji’s arrow is true. It punctures the chest of the living beta, stealing her life from her.
She collapses to the ground as the Beta Goddess screams, spit flying from her mouth. I look back, but Benji is gone, disappearing into a mass of swirling robes.
“Another!” she shouts.
“There is no other, Goddess,” a guard says and flinches when she whirls on him.
The goddess stares at him in a way that clearly terrifies him. “What do you mean?”
“The,” he motions to where Jarek was. “He let them all out, and they ran away.”
“They ran away? They ran AWAY?”
Jarek,I think in despair. He found a way to avoid killing them all. I should have known he would. He’s got too much heart.
“I need a vessel!”
The beta guards step back, but she seethes, ignoring them, not even noticing the stench of their sour fear filling the air around us.
“She turns back to Walker.”
“Be my vessel again.”
Again?My eyes bulge.Again? What the fuck does she mean again?
“I need you to be my vessel.”
He shakes his head.
“You know it has to be voluntary or it won’t work.”
“No,” he hisses. “I won’t do it.”
She paces. “Then, kill the omega.”
The guard near me lifts his sword.
“Not that one, you idiot!” she howls. “How are you all so stupid?”
I turn to Legion, who stares only at Walker.
“We’re not supposed to be,” Legion whispers. “They’ll never let us be together.”
I go still, barely daring to breathe, trying to figure out what’s going to happen, but she moves and puts an arm over his shoulders.
Legion doesn’t try to push her away; he just watches Walker.
