THIRTY-TWO
‘You betrayed me. You knew the girl was Kyle’s pet half-breed, yet you said nothing. You even had the gall to put her purchases on the council account. How dare you?’ Councillor Kelvin Dillon glared at Neil. The two of them stood on the sidewalk above a culvert near the merchant district.
‘She’s going to use my blood to make more vaccine,’ said Neil. ‘People are dying in the other towns without that cure. She just wants to help them.’
‘She’s lying. They’re all liars, the half-breeds and the wardens. They don’t want to help us. They want to enslave us. They’ve always thought they were better than us, and this new freak is just a lie, a way to get us back under their control. They need to be stopped.’
‘I’m sorry, sir, but you’re wrong. Miss Young said—’
‘I don’t give a s**t w
