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were.”
    “Well, that’s great,” he mutters. “I’m
broken, but you don’t know how.”
    “Sorry, maybe I shouldn’t have told
you.”
    “Yeah, maybe… or maybe not… I don’t
know.”
    “You don’t know what?”
    He shrugs. “I don’t know anything anymore.
Everything’s changed—I’ve changed. And it makes figuring out what I
want hard.”
    I’m not sure what to say, so I turn my head
and look ahead, focusing on getting to the colony. Suddenly,
though, I realize that Greyson and Nichelle have stopped and I just
about walk into the back of them.
    I look up, ready to ask what’s wrong, but
then I see Nichelle’s apologetic face. Something’s wrong, but
before I can set Maci down and get my knife, a net is thrown over
the top of Aiden and I. Seconds later, a needle is jabbed into the
side of my neck. I let out a gasp as my arms go limp, my body
falling, falling, falling. Everything begins to blur and the last
thing I see are a set of pale eyes peering down at me.
    A Higher.

Chapter 11

    My eyes are heavy and I struggle to open
them. It feels like I’m moving, although I can’t remember why. Then
it all starts to come back to me in bits and pieces until suddenly
I remember that I was betrayed.
    I jerk my eyes open, panicking as I realize
I’m lying on a cot in a room surrounded by brick walls. I slowly
lift up my arms, wanting to move, but they feel like lead.
    I glance around. There are no windows
anywhere; only a large, metal door on the wall farthest from me and
a pile of bricks in the corner, the ceiling is leaking something
grimy.
    Aching from head to toe, I sit up and
stumble out of the cot then walk over to the door and try to pry it
open.
    Locked, of course .
    Dammit. What is going on?
    I’m pretty sure that I saw a Higher before I
was sedated. But why? I know Nichelle wasn’t lying to me
earlier when she told me her story about why I needed to come with
her. So why do they have me locked up and where are the others
being kept?
    Pacing back and forth, I feel the tension
inside me begin to coil, knowing I need to get out of this. I
glance over at the door and center all of my strength on it,
backing up and then running forward, ramming my body into it as
hard as I can. Pain shoots throughout my body and the door doesn’t
budge. The only visible damage is a small dent from where my
shoulder connected with it.
    I rub my shoulder and let out a frustrated
sigh, smashing my fist into the brick wall over and over again
until bits and pieces crumble. Then I stomp back over to the cot
and flop onto it. Folding my arms across my chest as I silently
wait to see what will come next because it feels like everything is
out of my hands now. I’m supposed to save the world, yet I can’t
even control what’s going on around me.
    A few minutes tick by and then I hear the
lock on the door click. Nichelle enters wearing black pants and a
shirt with her hair pulled back. She looks like she’s cleaned up,
smiling at me as she shuts the door.
    “Hi, Kayla.” She acts as if she’s innocent
and hasn’t done anything wrong.
    Anger fires through me and I hop off the cot
and storm towards her, ready to beat the shit out of her. “Don’t
‘hi, Kayla’ me.”
    She pulls out a long knife and aims it out
in front of her. “Relax and let me explain.”
    I stop a few feet in front of her, eyeing
the knife in her hand, knowing I could stop her from stabbing me if
I really wanted to. “Explain what? How you lied to us; tricked us
into believing you, only to lock us up?”
    She keeps her knife pointed out and steps
back, putting space between us. “That’s not how it is. This was
only a precaution to make sure that there’s no chance that any of
you will attack our people.”
    I can feel the truth radiating from her, but
I’m still skeptical. Plus, I’m still not over the fact that she
stabbed me with a needle. “If that’s true, then why did I see a
Higher with you earlier?”
    Her brows dip. “A