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on them and away from the screens.
           “I tried to call you…”
           “Miss, can you tell us what happened?”
           Kailynn turned to the guards, her eyes
wide. She legitimately panicked. She had not come up with a story about her
assault.
           “I…I was…” She lowered her head and
raised a hand to her head. “I was out with some friends…Dale and I had gotten
into a fight and I was drinking…”
           “You were in the Walking District?” one
guard asked suspiciously. “With friends?”
           “Yes,” Kailynn said. “And when we left…”
           She could not think of how to continue.
Instead, she forced her eyes wider and turned back to Dale, trying to draw
attention away from the story so that she would have time to form it.
           “Dale…I didn’t mean what I said…”
           “What started the fight?” the first guard
pressed. “Were you yelling at one another?”
           “Loud enough for the neighbors to hear,
unfortunately,” Theo said. “I didn’t go after her immediately because I was
explaining to them what had happened.”
           Kailynn was watching the suspicious
creases on the guards’ faces get deeper the more Theo explained the fake fight.
Kailynn knew something was wrong. They did not believe the story.
           Kailynn turned back to Theo and removed
her hand from his, signaling that something was wrong.
           “Dale…we shouldn’t so openly discuss our
problems…” she tried to get him to stop talking. That was when she realized
their mistake. The high-class citizens of Anon did not speak to one another as Trids did. Often they rarely saw each other
face-to-face. That was why companies that provided Significants existed.
           Her heart began climbing out her throat.
           “I’m feeling ill…please…I want to go
home…”
           “Where is the nearest hospital?” Theo
asked, turning to the guards.
           “I don’t think it’s safe for you to take
her there yourself,” the first guard said, walking to the phone. “I’ll call the
EMU.”
           Kailynn knew that they were not calling
an EMU. They were calling the Officials. They knew something was wrong.
           “No!” Kailynn cried. “I don’t want to go
to the hospital! I just want to go home!”
           “You must be seen by a physician,” the
second guard said, his hands moving to his sides.
           Theo quickly realized how out of control
things were getting. Both guards were armed and could kill them at any moment,
and they appeared to be reaching for their weapons.
           “I agree,” Theo said with a nod. “Where
is the nearest hospital? How long will it take them to get here?”
           “No, really, I just want—”
           “ E-Team,
to eleven!! ” a voice bellowed outside. Kailynn jumped when the sound of
orders being barked filled the air. She turned to the screens again and barely
caught sight of what seemed to be hundreds of armed Officials running out of
various warehouses, surrounding warehouse eleven—where the gang had expected
Venus to be located.
           But Kailynn did not have long to study
the situation before a gun turned on her. Both guards had drawn their weapons, pointing
them at the Evada siblings.
           “Stupid Trids,” the first guard growled.
“Did you think we were morons?”
           “We’ve been waiting for you,” the second
added.
           The two Trids were completely still and
silent, not sure how to respond or how to get out of the dangerous situation.
Kailynn looked between the two guns, her head trying to wrap around how fast
the situation had changed. She had never considered they would get into the
warehouse compound. She had never thought of an escape plan if they were trapped
inside.
           The sound of rapid gunfire caught
everyone by