Chapter Fourteen
The Unholy Three
“You will do it!”
“The hell I will!”
Paige stared down the dungeon corridor from the stairway’s last step. At the far end, the steel door to the interrogation chamber she had come to know so well stood wide open, like a hungry mouth, ready to consume her. Echoes of her last, angry argument with Leo still rang in her ears.
Pleading now. “I passed the last test. Everyone knows it.”
Leo’s resolve was as unwavering as his voice was deep. “No, they don’t. Not until they see you walk out tomorrow at dawn.”
“Walk out? Did you see the looks those three bitches gave me at the track? I’ll be lucky to come out at all. I didn’t ask for any of this.”
“Not at first. But now, you demand it.”
Paige’s bare foot stepped onto the cold, concrete floor. A c
