I Regret Nothing - JB Trepagnier Page 0,62

already told Dakarys and Rajack my secret. Nothing terrible happened, and they were trying to help me keep it. Faust needed to know. Yeah, I guess I did trust him too.

“Faust, I want you to know that—”

I was cut off. An alarm started blaring throughout the entire prison, and someone started screaming in Faust’s walkie.

“Code Red! We’re on lockdown. Get everyone to their cells!”

Faust immediately snapped to attention.

“Shit, Rei. Hold that thought and stay close to me. Silverhold is going to be locked down for a while, and your cell is going to get tossed. Don’t panic. If you have anything in there, hide it!”

What the fuck was going on? I stayed close to his back as we walked down the hallway to my cellblock.

“What’s a Code Red?” I hissed.

“They found an inmate dead. I won’t know more until later.”

Shit. Dakarys and Rajack better be okay. Did Astrid finally take care of Venus? I wouldn’t be mad about that. Sitting in my bunk waiting for news was going to be miserable, but at least the foxes were friendly with me, and I’d have someone to talk to. I hoped it wasn’t someone I knew.

The foxes all looked relieved as soon as I set foot in my cellblock. Candra flung her arms around my neck and squeezed me.

“I’m so glad it wasn’t you.”

Faust banged his shock baton against the wall.

“No touching, inmates. Stand for count,” he growled.

He was back to being scary again, but I got it. Someone had died, and he was doing his job. We all scurried off and stood in front of our cell doors. Faust didn’t even look at me as he walked down the cells with his clicker. It said a lot about Faust that everyone was dying to know who it was, but no one said a fucking thing.

He got to the end and turned on his heels. He grabbed the walkie on his shoulder.

“Cellblock D is all accounted for.”

Guards started chiming in. No one was missing. A few more guards stormed into my cellblock and started tossing shit everywhere. I didn’t have a lot of stuff in my cell, but my thin mattress and shitty pillow were now on the floor.

There had to be some serious hiding places here because they didn’t find a single shiv or any of Dakarys and Rajack’s black market items aside from hooch. I was seriously going to have to ask where to stash shit because they could not find me with Brody’s keys after I lifted them. And I wanted some black market shit too.

After our cells were a total cluster fuck, they locked us in and wouldn’t turn the lights out. Were they seriously not going to feed us? I didn’t know the protocols for prison murders, but I should probably find that out. I just stuffed my face with Faust’s delicious homemade pizza and that cupcake, but I was a stress eater. And a bored eater. This qualified as both.

“So, I’m going crazy, and this is my first prison murder. I was working in Faust’s office the entire time. Does anyone know who it was or if anyone claimed it?”

Wait, a minute. Technically, I was with Faust the entire time except when he slipped away to let me make a phone call. Did Faust do all this for my birthday because he needed ten minutes to kill someone? No. Faust wouldn’t do that. I was getting to know him, and he wouldn’t play me like that, would he?

“We thought it was you or that witch. Most of the prison feuds have been settled except yours. We didn’t do it,” a fox called. “Faust could have struck again.”

“Faust was in his office with me. It wasn’t Faust. Do you think the witches took care of Venus?”

“I doubt it. Sneaking into medical is hard. You have to be injured to get in. They will let you visit, but you have to be fingerprinted in and out. Killing someone in medical is stupid. You’d get caught,” Whisper said. “Astrid doesn’t use poison often. She usually sends Wren. Wren always makes it look like an accident, so it can’t be tied back to the witches. I get what went down with you and Venus, but I’d avoid pissing off Astrid or Wren. Wren isn’t dumb enough to make it public she’s coming for you by asking around. You won’t know until two minutes before you die.”

“Couldn’t she technically sneak into medical and kill Venus if she’s that good?”

Candra laughed.

“It’s not