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Chapter 20
Wren
I
knew how things worked. Venus was going to die in here whether or not I got the satisfaction of doing it. I didn’t give a shit. I owed her for Astrid. Fuck, I owed her for Rei too.
After Astrid, I didn’t see a way out. She was the only thing making my life sentence tolerable. I helped protect her when we were at war with the eagles and took out anyone who was a threat. I shouldn’t have hesitated with Venus, but Astrid wanted to do this a certain way.
I planned on killing as many traitor witches here as I could before someone killed me. I knew how that would work. The witches would figure out it was me and come for me. Or I would kill every single witch here, and the rest of Silverhold would turn on me because no one could survive here on their own.
I’d made my peace with it, and I was ready to die. I was tired and ready for it to be over.
Then, fucking Faust dragged me out of solitary for an alliance if I babysat his mate. I spent a lockdown with her, and I saw the light again. She was totally different from Astrid in every way, but I liked her better than some other witches I spent my time with.
She didn’t regret a damned thing that landed her in this prison, but she understood how things worked. If you broke the law as your job, you would eventually get caught. She was cunning and already understood how things worked in Silverhold. When she got out of here, she’d go back to stealing and learn from her mistakes. She wouldn’t end up back here a second time.
Personally, if I had a release date, I wouldn’t have even listened to Rajack and Dakarys when they brought up their little plot. Rajack, Dakarys, and I had nothing to lose if we got caught. They couldn’t extend our sentences any further than they already were, and we’d be legends among the inmates here for trying.
It wasn’t like that for Rei. If we got caught, she’d get time added to her sentence, and it would be easier for the Aether Circle to kill her. That wasn’t fair to Faust either since she was his mate.
I didn’t jump in on this plan because it was foolproof. They had a better chance of pulling it off with my help. I liked Rajack, Dakarys, and Rei. Maybe I didn’t want to die. Getting out of here was the next best thing.
But I was killing Venus first. I didn’t care what everyone thought, and I knew it would be just as poetic if an assassin from the Aether Circle got in here and told her why they were doing it.
I was going to look that bitch in the eye and tell her she was dying for Astrid and Rei.
But for now, I needed to play my part. Karin was a whiny bitch to Brody about visiting Venus in medical. How stupid could you get? No witch in Silverhold ever asked him for anything because he would only do it if you fucked him. No one else asked him either because his payment was asking them to pimp a witch for him.
Brody was one of those dicks that thought species shouldn’t mix. He caught me in bed with one of the wolves and threw me in solitary. I wasn’t even planning on fucking the wolf. I hadn’t fucked a man in a very long time. I found the idea a little vile. I was trying to get close to him for information, then I planned on killing him. His wolfy dick would never have gotten near me. We weren’t even naked, but Brody made me rot in the hole.
Everyoneknew this about him. It wasn’t this massive secret that he had some fantasy in his pointy little head about guards fucking inmates. He’d been trying everything he could, including offering hard drugs, if someone would hook him up with one of us. A few new smackheads looking for a fix approached Astrid about it, and I had to teach them a lesson.
Karin knew damned well Brody would take all of us to medical and let us stay longer than we were supposed to if someone fucked him. It wouldnotbe me. And no one else in this coven was going to be safe from the other inmates when Brody went around bragging about it. He was just the kind of shit to do that.
Was this seriously what we had come to? Fucking guards for favors?
Karin started stroking Brody’s chest like he wasn’t this revolting little worm who should have been fired on his first day. I think I threw up in my mouth a little. Standards were a thing even in prison.
“I’ll make it worth your while,” Karin purred.
Brody was stupid, but not that stupid. I was sure countless women had promised him sex for favors since he had to bribe women for it. I was also certain once they got what they wanted, Brody didn’t get laid.
There weren’t supposed to be weapons in prison, even with the guards. They had their shock batons and a gun that fired these super annoying rubber bullets that hurt like fuck.No one,not even guards were supposed to have knives or real guns.
I couldn’t fault an inmate for making a homemade weapon. That was just survival. But a guard? Brody pulled a dagger from his boot, and his eyes were glittering as he stared at Karin.
“I want a blood oath. I take you to medical, and you scratch my itch.”
This would be the part where any sane witch didn’t need to go to medical that bad. Seriously. If Karin was horny, there were other warlocks in our coven that would be happy to take care of that for her.
I had to hide my shock when she held out her palm for the blood oath. We were seriously doing this. Witches in Silverhold were pimping sex with guards for favors. This was not just unacceptable in prison. Witches were pretty free with their sexuality. We liked our moonlight orgies just as much as some shifters. We didn’t fuck people so far beneath us like Brody because they had something we wanted. If witches wanted something, we just took it.
I was trying to keep my face from doing all kinds of things that would give me away as Brody cut their palms and used his magic to do the blood oath. I was so fucking disgusted.
But now it was done. I couldn’t change it. Karin was fucking Brody and was bound by blood to do it. I needed to reset. I put my resting bitch face back on and tried to make damned sure I got invited to medical.
I needed to hear what Venus was planning, and I needed to get a lay of the land. I’d never killed anyone in medical before. It wasn’t worth it. There was too much that would tie back to me, and there was always someone there watching.
