Page 56 of Martyr
“You didn’t happen to hear about the marina exploding, did you?”
He pauses, then lets out a huff. “Yeah, I heard about it. Wait?—”
“Guilty.”
He laughs. “Naturally. There’s a private dock used by the trauma camp. It’s probably where you dropped Saint off.”
I nod to myself. “I know it.”
“Meet the boat there in thirty minutes.”
Ah, fuck. I guess he doesn’t give a shit about whoever’s out there guarding it while the island is on lockdown.
I can sense he’s ready to end the call. I blurt out, “Wait?—”
“Yeah?”
“How many people can the boat hold?”
24ARTEMIS
This is insane.
Insane.
Kade had a cache of weapons locked in a safe, but he refused to give me a gun. He refused to give Saint one either. Mumbled something about us shooting each other. Instead, he and Reese loaded up, then we piled on every piece of dark clothing we could find and spent time locking down the cabin.
Then, we split up.
I follow Kade toward the trauma camp. Reese and Saint are going to scope out the dock to clear us a path, but there’s one extra factor involved.
Lyssa.
Kade’s face turned stony when Reese came back in the room and told him what he’d discovered. That Gabriel had found out about where we are, that Ouranos is out for Saint’s blood…
Good stuff.
“I didn’t tell him anything,” Kade says again, glancing back at me.
I roll my eyes. “You said.”
“Well, it’s the truth. He’s caused enough havoc to last a lifetime.”
Also true.
Our mission? Hide Lyssa.
We can’t remove her from Isle of Paradise, but wecanmake it look like she was moved.
Dr. Hawthorne meets us at the edge of the trees. She leads us around to a building I’ve only gone in once, for a tour of the place when I first arrived: the locked unit. It’s for those who are a bit more emotionally unstable.
There are more orderlies on shift twenty-four seven, private rooms, and additional support staff for each patient.
Resident.
Whatever.
“We’ve moved her already,” Dr. Hawthorne says. “And issued new paperwork. As of tonight, she’s Lisa Jones, admitted a week and a half ago for psychosis treatment and physical therapy.”
