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to be honest with the two people who needed me for now. After I spilled the beans, I just hoped I didn’t have a gargoyle and a sphinx after me too. Because I seemed to be making a lot of enemies in Silverhold.

I joined Dakarys and Rajack at the table, but they spilled nothing about their plan or asked me anything right away.

“We don’t just need a thief. We need a witch. We have a working relationship with Astrid, and we like her. Venus doesn’t just want to kill you. She’s planning to take Astrid out and take over the witch coven here. Not only will our plan not work with Venus in charge, but Venus also doesn’t plan to stop with you and Astrid. She wants to kill us too so she can take over the mailroom and our side business,” Rajack said.

“You probably should have just gone for her throat with those little fox teeth instead of her ankle. It would have saved the prison from having to deal with her shit,” Dakarys said.

Shit. I knew Venus was awful, but I didn’t realize she was this bad. She had no problem betraying Hauser, but I got why she wanted to take me out. I could even understand Astrid for standing in her way, even if I thought she was a bitch for it. But Dakarys and Rajack? Was she going to kill both of them just to take over the mailroom? Venus knew how to steal and move stolen items, but she wouldn’t know the first thing about doing what Dakarys and Rajack were doing as far as I knew. I was a thief too, and I don’t even think I could pull it off.

“So, why is Venus sitting over there getting friendly with the witches?”

Venus was getting cozy with a mean looking witch with bleached hair that looked like she could cut a bitch. She was little and scrappy looking, but so was I. Hauser always said the littler they were, the meaner they were. She was taller than I was, but she looked like she had me beat in the spitefulness department. I did not want to face off against that witch. She probably fought dirty.

“Oh, the one she’s whispering with is Astrid’s spy. Don’t fuck with Wren. She’s fiercely loyal to Astrid. She’s listening and taking names. Wren is finding out all the traitors, and then the witches will deal with them. But with Faust so interested in you and the witch drama, we have to step up our plans.”

“I’m listening.”

“Not here. There are too many ears in the mess hall. We’ll have this conversation in the one place we know we have privacy. After you finish eating, we’ll sneak to the mailroom before the last count and they lock us in our cells for the night. We won’t have a lot of time because they don’t want us out of our cells unless it’s yard time or we are working.”

I nodded. We’d have more time if we ate faster. Dakarys and Rajack had many questions for me, but I had a lot for them. What was so crucial in Silverhold that someone else couldn’t steal it?

And why were they risking drama with the witches and Faust to protect me?

Chapter 20

Dakarys

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oment of truth. We had our plan. We had almost everything we needed except what needed to be stolen. We had our thief, and we could use Faust’s interest in her to get what we needed to escape. But the fox was hiding something and there had to be a reason she was with us instead of the shifters. It was just prison culture. You kept to your own. It was the same in Scorchwood, aside from a few odd groups.

I really hoped she told us the truth and it wasn’t horrible, because I liked her. I seriously saw her call fucking Faust an asshole right to his face. No one here did that because we weren’t stupid. I got this feeling Rei didn’t care that he knew she thought that.

Venus was causing all kinds of drama. I saw her in the mess hall after she tried to attack Rei in the shower. Rei didn’t have a mark on her, but Venus’s mouth was all busted up. Score one for the fox because she told us Faust didn’t even try to step in and stop it.

We all gathered around the mailroom table and leaned in.

“Bottom line, Rei. We need a thief to help us do