Chapter 15. Who am I? (3)
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The word cascaded from my mouth as the world shattered around me. My true fear had betrayed me, made me tell the one thing that I shouldn’t. It didn’t make any sense, he was going to kill me either way. But knowing my identity made it so much worse. He would ravel in the joy that none of us had escaped, that no matter where we went, he would always find us. And now he also knew that there was a chance that some of us got out. If there was anyone out there still alive, thinking they were safe, I’d just ruined it. I told him the once secret I should have kept.
As I looked up I could see the recognition in his face, the faint smile now protruding around his lips. He knew.
He truly knew.
All was lost.
He stood up. Slowly, with his eyes relentlessly peeling away layer after layer. I could see their hunger, their eagerness to end this. Though there was also a hint of surprise now that he realised that he hadn’t been thorough enough. He had lowered his gun, though his finger was still on the trigger. I knew that if I made one wrong move, I would be dead before I could even lift one finger. All the while Tane stood motionless to the side, his face hard and his eyes unreadable. Now that I could no longer feel the power radiating from him it was much harder to read him. Now he was just a human puppet following Einar’s orders. Yet he couldn’t kill me, he couldn’t even touch me. Einar wanted me all for himself.
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