“No!”
I turned off my radio. Seriously, did not need to hear all the shouting or have them pick up on anything I said or did.
I had an advantage, something none of them knew. Not Marz, not Vance, not Mak and not even the governor. Something I’d never admitted. Not when the Intelligence Core questioned me for days after I showed up alone in that Hive ship. Not when the doctors poked and prodded me for hours, running hundreds of tests. Not when I looked into Mak’s eyes and felt the urge to reveal the truth I carried to someone I trusted.
But I kept my secret, because Mak wasn’t mine. Not really. We’d made a bargain. f****d and agreed that we would go our separate ways. He was leaving The Colony. Leaving me. Therefore, he didn’t need to know.
Shoulders set, I did the one thing I hadn’t le
