My humming picks up as I continue to skip around his room, plundering my little heart out. I’m going to be devastated if I have to kill him. It would be very difficult to find a Plentiful as talented as he is.
I’ll have to introduce him to my…
My thought drifts off as my eyes swirl uncontrollably.
“There was a psycho without his burden,
And Angel was her name-O.
A-N-G-E-L
A-N-G-E-L
A-N-G-E-L
And Angel was her name-O.”
Glass shatters in my hand and I scrunch my nose at the gods-awful billow that drifts from the vial I broke.
“For the Valories, what was that?” Everyone in the room coughs from that ghastly stench.
“Secretions of a dying oxid. You pour it around your crops to keep them from eating the food. It simultaneously helps the plants grow tenfold.”
See, he’s a genius.
Too bad the other Plentifuls think his methods are a little too unethical.
“I’ve got what we need. Let’s go,” Amick announces and I spin around, clapping my hands.
“Do I need to kill my good friend?” I send him an apologetic smile when he gasps.
“No. Not today anyway.”
“Oh yay.” I bound over to where Creed shoves Vullie away and I wrap him in a hug. “I’ll see you next week for my usual.”
He nods frantically and I match his excitement.
I race up the stairs to catch up with my brothers, who’ve already made it out of the chime tower.
“So what did you find?” I ask, then gasp when I see him looking over the book of clients. “Did you steal that?”
He stares at me. “Were you not paying attention the entire time? Kyzen was speeding up time while I copied his book. The last individual he sold the sleep-paralysis powder to was Emmett Darvos. That’s one of the Chancellor’s Attendants.”
Aww, that sucks. I always said I wouldn’t kill any of the Attendants.
I despise the fact one of the Chancellors knows about my buddy.
“Which Chancellor?” Kyzen asks.
“All of them. He’s one of the ones who’ve unfortunately been tasked as theirs.”
“So you think he was put up to this?” Creed asks.
“Yes. Why else would he target Thayla or Yemi? He’s had zero contact with them as far as I know.”
“Then let’s—”
Creed quits talking as his eyes blaze white and his power swarms me. I shiver from the deadly embrace.
