Chapter 84

We'd made it into the air and off Orin hours ago, and this ranked pretty high on my relief scale.

I sat against the wall opposite the Vicious room, staring at the closed door, as I plucked the iron from my tongue and placed it in my pocket. The room was located near the end of the dining room hallway near a hanging light. A few steps to my left stretched another hallway that led to the infirmary and Mase. Ellison had said he would be fine, that the bullet just skimmed his shoulder. Good thing Captain Glenn knew how to shoot. But Ellison also said that traces of the drug She still lit him up. Mase had said he'd been clean ever since Captain Glenn hired him, but a short trip to Orin had brought his sobriety to a crushing end, through no fault of his own. I should've castrated Parker when I had the chance.