Chapter 26 Violated

• Coming from someone who’d had things shoved into every orifice in their body, saying she felt violated meant a lot. Which is exactly the way Amberleigh described what came after Grayson Godwin’s driver picked her up outside the back entrance to the Cobra Club at precisely midnight.
• The driver was brisk and direct as he opened the back door for her in the black car. He placed her luggage in the trunk. A man of few words, and apparently no personality, as he informed her under Mr. Godwin’s orders he was transporting her directly to a medical facility. No more, no less. When she tried to get some details, he engaged in the silent game, eyes forward on the road. Well, that also brought back childhood memories, because many times her mother had treated Amber like she didn’t fucking exist.
• Amber watched the city passing by. They were in the clean, cheerful parts of Omega City where you could see your reflection in the gleam of the buildings and you didn’t have to keep a death grip on your purses. In this part of the city, it was harder to see the lie that everyone wasn’t fucked and living on borrowed time.  Here, the lie was whitewashed like the marble façade of the buildings lining Fifth Avenue. Truth was if LEDA didn’t find that cure soon, and these walls were breached, well this city was going to die, even while wearing their designer threads. Death didn’t give a fuck if you smelled like Chanel Number Five or a sewer. It was coming for us all.