Page 10 of Okay, I Regret a Little
Chapter 8
Wren
I
felt dirty sitting at the same table with all these traitors. I never liked some of them, but some of these people broke my fucking heart because I did like them and thought I could trust them. They’d all been here long enough to know how things worked. They should have told Venus if she wanted to be the Supreme Bitch of the witches here in Silverhold to nut up and fight Astrid with magic like every single challenge in here went.
I was lying through my teeth at breakfast for why I was no longer sharing a cell block with the witches. I needed them to trust me. I knew some of them didn’t, or I would have been told about the attack on Astrid. I needed these two-faced bitches thinking I didn’t know it was them so they wouldn’t see me coming.
Faust wouldn’t mind me throwing him under the bus. The witches weren’t stupid. They were too scared of him to walk up to him, and fact check anything I was telling them. Since I was already pretending like I didn’t know who did it, I decided to scare them with a little Faust.
I knew they were banking on the eagles getting blamed, but I scared them by telling them Faust suspected a witch. That was true. I threw a minor diversion in there by telling them Faust suspected me. He played mind games by forcing me to share a cellblock with another gang instead of throwing me in solitary. Faust was an assassin and a good one. He was better at being a CO than any other guard in here.
Still, the mythology about him in here was legendary, and I could use that. I could literally make up anything, and people would believe it. Playing mind games like throwing me in another cellblock knowing I’d probably get beaten would be believable to just about everyone here, even if it wasn’t true.
They ate it up, mostly when I went on and on about how much I hated Rei. They really had a boner about killing her too. Venus had done a number on them, and I thought they were smarter than that, even those I didn’t like. Most people who claimed nothing was ever their fault were usually going around fucking shit up for everyone. I could see that about Venus even before Rei started spilling the dirt on her.
I actually liked Rei now that I hung out with her, and we weren’t discussing Venus. It was a little adorable when I accidentally told her Faust was her mate. The way he was barging into solitary and offering to help me with the witches made me think he’d already told her. He would probably be super pissed she knew now since he didn’t feel the need to tell her.
I might like Rei, but once I figured out she wasn’t really a fox shifter, I hadn’t considered her cuffs wouldn’t work until I saw Faust try to wake her ass up. Faust might be the big, bad wolf, and I might have some serious magic with these cuffs off, but something told me Rei was more potent than both of us combined.
And that was fucking sexy.
I think we were all dying to know what the fuck she was. I didn’t think Faust knew either, or he wouldn’t have touched her when her skin was crackling with red static. It was fascinating. I used to travel the entire world. I’d killed every supernatural species available except a full-blooded Fae.
Rei wasn’t Fae. She didn’t have the ears. But she was definitely from another realm because I’d never killed anyone that fought back like she did. Demon? I’d never tried summoning one before. I didn’t fuck with that shit. Demons were so secretive, and they seldom came to Earth. I didn’t want to summon one and get killed because they took offense.
I was sure there were dozens of other realms out there that didn’t bother coming here, but I knew of the Fae realm and Hell for sure. I knew Rei wasn’t Fae.
Was Rei a demon? If so, what the fuck was she doing on Earth trying to pass herself off as a fox shifter?
