Truthfully, she didn’t even need to go that far.A little poison in the water or food supply.Something that targeted humans while leaving plants unharmed.She could wipe out her enemies in one go.
For the first time, there was a flicker of uncertainty in Cronus’s features.“You wouldn’t do that.”
“I would,” Gus assured her.
Gus absolutely would.She had no desire to take things that far, but she would if they threatened her.Nothing was more important than her own life.
“You’re a monster.”
Gus’s smile was brief.“Yes.”
The irony of having someone like Cronus calling her a monster.
Mentally, Gus shrugged it off.She was what she was.Nothing would change that.Most days, she wouldn’t want to, anyway.She liked who she was.Hermit tendencies and all.
Deciding there was nothing further to accomplish with this conversation, Gus moved toward the damaged security gate only for Cronus’s subordinates to block her path.
Gus noted the weapons in their hands.The hostile glint in their gazes as they looked her up and down.
One of them smiled.Probably assumed she was easy pickings.
A woman alone.Against all of them.
Yeah, she could see how they thought that.
Internally, Gus sighed before raising her voice to address Cronus.“I suggest you call off your people.If you don’t want to lose them, that is.”
She’d been kind up to this point in not taking her anger out on this deck.If they pushed her much further, that would change.
“I can tell you where to find the boy,” Cronus announced abruptly.
Oh?
Interested, Gus looked back over her shoulder to find the other woman watching her with an assessing expression.
Sensing an opening, Cronus continued.“We can take you to him.”
“What makes you think I can’t find that information for myself?”
She was Titan’s administrator, after all.With an entire network of surveillance systems and spies—whether they knew it or not—at her disposal.
“I’m sure you could.But will you be in time?”
Gus regarded Cronus steadily before giving her a humorless smile.“It appears your reputation isn’t entirely lip service.”
Here she’d been worried that her informants had misled her regarding Cronus’s capability.
“You want a trade,” Gus stated.
“We’ll take you to their hideout.You leave my son to me.”
“He can’t go unpunished,” Gus warned.
That was something Gus couldn’t compromise on.It would set a bad precedent if people thought they could betray the administrator.
“Don’t you worry.He’ll get what’s coming to him.”
Gus blinked at the vindictiveness in Cronus’s tone.For a moment, she wondered if death might be a far kinder outcome for Kyle than whatever his mom had planned for him.
