Invidia
Invidia
Author: Laura Holmes
PROLOGUE

   “Why the hell are you doing this?” Cameron mumbled. The gag dried out his mouth and made his tongue feel sandy, which made moving it to get the gag out all that more difficult.

   “You know why,” his stepfather answered, bent over the table Cameron was strapped to. The restraints sliced into his skin and bent his wrists at unnatural angles. “You’ve deceived me. You’ve lied. You’ve done everything in your power to overthrow me.”

   “What power?” He finally spit the gag out. “You’re the freaking president. I have no power. I don’t know why you think I can overthrow you.”

   After his stepfather slapped him, his face stung for a moment before fading into a mild burn, “That’s what I’m trying to figure out! I knew from the start that when I married Christy that you were going to be a pain in my ass. Now she’s dead, and it’s your fault.”

   “How is it my fault?” 

   “Because she died to save your ungrateful little ass,” Hendrickson spat. “And you don’t even know why. Now you’re not going to.” He opened a new update on his HoloComm, and a mask came down over Cameron’s face. He didn’t know what was happening until a colorless gas made him choke on his own saliva. The last thing he saw through the blurriness was the image of his stepfather’s sick smile bearing down over him as the world faded into black.

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