Page 52 of Okay, I Regret a Little
How the fuck was I supposed to spin this? Rei could have very well pulled this off if that red cloud took her out of here. Brody was dead, and Venus probably was too. The only person who could open that cloud and get all of us out of here was Rei, and she wouldn’t wake up right away.
I was in this now. I would have been in on it and helped if Rei told me what she was planning. I guess she just didn’t care about me like I cared about her. Now, I was probably going to jail for killing Brody. The doors here led to the parking lot. Could I just carry Rei to my car and let the others fend for themselves?
Ireallydidn’t want to go to jail.
I was about to take over and try to fix this bungled escape plan when another unwanted guest appeared. Rufus was another guard and a vampire. He must have smelled the blood and come running.
“What the fuck is going on here?” he hissed, baring his fangs.
The sphinx stepped forward.
“We were trying to escape, but Faust stopped us.”
“Which one of you assholes killed Brody and the witch?”
Now, the gargoyle was up.
“The witch followed us. Brody killed her with his baton as payback for getting one of her witches to use him for sex. I killed Brody because he was out of control. He killed Venus, and he tried to kill Rei.”
What.the.fuck? They didn’t owe me shit. I’d never once been nice to them. Wren would have run her big fat mouth around them. They would know who Rei was to me and that I was competition. Why were they saving me ass? It wasn’t like I could save theirs now that Rufus was here.
Exactly what I didn’t want happening was going to go down. Rei was going to get thrown in solitary and get years added to her sentence for her part in the breakout. There wasn’t a fucking thing I could do about it. I couldn’t get her out of solitary, even if everyone thought Brody killed Venus.
The sphinx and the gargoyle trained their eyes on me and gave me this curt nod like they understood what I had
to do, and they didn’t blame me for it. I wished there was another way. Maybe in another life, I could have been friends with these men if they weren’t sniffing around my mate. They had honor; I’d give them that.
I would have helped them if it were just me. Maybe it made me weak, but if Rei gave me a rational explanation for why she did this without telling me and asked me to leave with her, I would have.
As it stood right now, I was furious with her and extremely hurt. The sphinx and the gargoyle had saved my hide, and now I needed to do my damned job and figure a way out of this.
I grabbed my walkies off my shoulder.
“I need assistance in the old guard wing. There was an attempted breakout. An inmate and a guard are dead.”
I was so furious at her. Why couldn’t she just trust me? Why couldn’t she feel what I was feeling? Still, I didn’t want anyone else laying a finger on her while she was hurt. I scooped her up in my arms.
“Brody attacked this one with magic before he was killed. I’ll bring her to medical, and then she can go to solitary.”
Warden Snow must have been here listening to the radios because she chimed in.
“You’ll do no such thing, Faust. This criminal will go straight to solitary, and I want a full investigation of how it got this far. Question the one who killed Brody first.”
I met the gargoyle’s eyes. That was code for starve him and beat him in solitary until he said what the prison wanted him to say. I wasn’t putting him through that, and I thought we had an understanding.
“I’ll lead the investigation myself,” I said.
I started carrying Rei towards solitary as my blood boiled. We wouldn’t even be in this situation if she had just trusted me. If the sphinx and gargoyle hadn’t lied for me, my wolf would have been caged.
All because of the stupid moon.
