Page 69 of Anarchy Chained: Alpha Thomas

“God. It’s even worse than I could’ve imagined. Of all the Alphas to be caught by, it had to be him? What did he do to me?”

“We don’t know yet,” she says in her stay-calm voice. “But whatever it was, we can fix it. Don’t worry.”

Sadie, the message reads again. It’s me. I’m still here. Help me.

“Don’t listen to them,” Cyan cautions me. “They’ll twist your head. You know this. You know the kind of power they wield. You’ve been training your whole life to deal with their tricks. Don’t let him have your mind, Sadie. Turn him off right now.”

She drops her carefully planned optimism as the last few words come out. They are harsh and stern. An order.

“You were tricked with his stupid mentalist powers. That’s how he got you. Don’t let him do it again. I can’t lose you again, do you understand?”

I nod. “I won’t. I promise.”

“Good,” she says. Her smile is back and she stands up from the bed. “Now let me help you to the tub. Uzi will come in when you’re done and you two can have some alone time.”

She winks at me, then smiles.

Uzi. We have been partners for as long as I can remember. Which, at this point, isn’t long because my memory is so fucked up. But I know him. I know what he is to me. I know what we are together.

He’s my other half. He’s the one I belong to.

Things I know.

I’m in a house. A pretty big one, too. We’re in the mountains because I have the most picturesque view imaginable as I soak in the tub. The bubbles smell like heaven. The hot water feels so delicious, I might drink it. And I have no clue what was wrong with my leg, because there’s no sign of injury at all from what I can tell.

But every few minutes, that message flashes across my vision overlay.

Help me.

Why in the ever-loving fuck would I help that asshole?

I grew up terrified of them. All of them. I’d never met one personally, since the Alpha program was officially over before I was even old enough to understand what they were. But I’ve seen pictures. I’ve heard the horror story of how they killed all those other kids.

And Thomas Brooks was the ringleader. He was the one who did it. The others are just bad, but he’s the worst of the worst. If evil is a real thing, that man is it, personified.

Cyan, Uzi, and I escaped Prodigy two years ago. Iziah was caught the same night. He was covering for us so we could all get away, and he was caught. I was caught a few days later.

That much I remember.

I have been with Prodigy for a long time.

The rest… well. It’s a little bit fuzzy because that stupid fucking Alpha kidnapped me, put me into some kind of train car under the ground, and then we crashed, which released that green gas.

This is as much as I’ve figured out.

I remember the crash, the car, and the tunnel. Cyan told me about the kidnapping and the gas.

And I remember him too.

He’s kinda hot.

Good God, I hope Cyan isn’t trying to read my mind right now. She will flip out. Alphas are not hot, they are dangerous.

Sadie…

God, why is he doing this to me? Go away!

But just as I say that in my head, I have a flash of light. A feeling floods through my body. Fear, I think. Fear of… him?