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So, I hope you all had a good holiday. I'm still on it, perks of study leave is your summer holiday starts as soon as your exams. I've had a really busy week so I'm sorry I didn't write sooner. Things are starting to heat up a bit.

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Sean's P.O.V.

I heard about Eva's announcement from Evan. He had looked slightly shocked himself when he told me, nursing his mug of coffee in his larger than life hands.

"So yeah," He said, hunching his shoulders and trying not to show his jealousy. "The President of the association just looked down at her and said 'you're in charge'." He shrugged. "She was thrilled, as you can imagine."

I nodded and started chewing my thumb. Eva in charge. That wasn't good. And her opening act as ruler was to strangle one of the girls and throw her across the room.

"She's been trotting around on her high horse ever since." Eva grumbled. "You know, she told me to go and get her a coffee this morning. No please, nothing. Like I was her secretary."

I stood and went to the door. "Sorry Evan, but I gotta go."

He nodded and drained his mug. "No worries mate, me too. I have to go see what Her Majesty wants to do about the breakout."

I was running down the white corridors before he was properly finished. I'd heard the stories about Eva. Though she'd always been unfailingly sweet to me, simpering over my every move, I knew she had a soul as sharp as broken glass. Evan had told me how she'd been given a rabbit for her birthday when she was ten. She'd poked it with a stick until it bit her and as punishment she'd kicked so hard it got internal bleeding. She'd then put on her prettiest smile and told the vet it had been attacked by a fox.

If she was slipping, there was no doubt she'd take her soulfinder-less anger out on the caged girls.

I rounded the fourth corner along the main corridor and ran 50 metres to Karen's cage.

"Karen!" I stopped and looked in at her. "I'm sorry I couldn't come earlier, Eva-"

"Where were you?" Karen's croaky voice sounded drained from where she was curled in a lonely ball on her mattress, facing the concrete wall.

"What?" I frowned.

Karen sat up slowly and I took in her tear streaked face and her lip bitten to oblivion. "Where were you this morning? Why weren't you there in the dining hall?"

"I was in my office. I had some stuff to finish up."

She got to her feet and her eyes were welling with angry tears. "Stuff? What stuff Sean? What could have been so important that you failed to come and tell me yourself that they'd been caught?"

"What?" I was properly confused now. "What are you talking about?"

"They didn't get out! My Mum was caught and is probably dead now and you didn't come and tell me. Why not? Were you too much of a coward to come and tell me to my face that the only thing I had left was dead? Were you so scared that you let Eva do it instead?!" Her face was red and blotchy, her fists balled at her sides, shaking slightly.

"But they did get out!" I nearly had to yell to be heard. "They did!"

Karen burst into tears. "Don't lie to me!"

"I'm not! They got out, and they're now in Colorado, safe and sound."

Karen let her head fall into her hands. "I don't believe you." She cried, muffled through her fingers.

I was surprised to find that I was angry. I always thought that if the girl I loved was upset about something I'd done I feel like the shit I was. But the anger at being wrongly accused by the Karen was sharp and painful in my chest.

"Karen," I said calmly, my own hands shaking. "Why would I say that your mother was alive if I knew she wasn't?"

There was a wet shrug from Karen. "I don't know, to keep me on your side, to fool me into thinking you were a nice guy." She looked up from her hands and I was shocked at the fury in her eyes.

I clenched my jaw and fished my phone out of my pocket.

"What are you doing?"

My thumb jumped across the screen. "I can't believe you don't trust me." I spat, getting flecks on the screen that I had to wipe off.

A few seconds later and a voice answered. "Kelly?" It was Saul Benedict on the other end.

"Hi." I said into it. "Could you put Jude on the phone please? Karen wants to speak to her."

I saw Karen's frown fall from her face, though the tears stayed there. I held out the phone to her and she snatched it through the bars. "Mum?"

I watched as her face smoothed over as a tinny voice answered her. He hand flew to her mouth and she started crying silently again.

"No, I'm alright. I'm ok. Are you alright?"

I simply stood and watched, waiting for her to finish. Her distrust in me hurt, more than I'd like to admit. I started wondering to myself how much she trusted me at all. If she couldn't trust that I'd tell her the truth then she'd never trust me with the lives of her and the rest of the inmates.

"Sean?"

I heard the prim voice from down the corridor and turned to see Eva walking towards me, a small frown between her perfect eyebrows.

Karen heard it too and immediately ended the call and placed the phone on the concrete ground, propelling herself back to her bed.

I bent and picked up the phone, lifting it to Eva's face when she arrived next to me. "Dropped my phone."

She nodded. "Ah, right. You looked lost in thought for a second."

I shook my head, the surprise still rather fresh, making my heart beat fast. "Well, gotta go."

I turned on my heel and left.

Karen's P.O.V.

Eva watched until Sean turned the corner before rounding on me, her hands wrapped around the bars. "Dropped his phone?!" She spat, her serene face twisted with malice. "He stood there for three minutes waiting to pick up his phone?"

I looked at her out of the corner of my tear swelled eye. Go away, I thought. Just go away!

Her ice blue eyes flashed. "I heard that you little bitch!"

I stayed silent.

Her face smoothed as she wiped away all traces of her anger. "Oh I know all about you Karen Bolton." Her voice was a smooth as cream. "Don't think I haven't noticed who you talk to. Both your mother and your cellmate got out in the escape, taking the little girl with them. There are a thousand women in here and for three of the five to have contact with you? Not possible. Oh I know you're involved somehow."

I shrugged. "How? I'm locked in here every day. I haven't seen my mother in two months now and I never met Kelsie."

Eva straightened up. "Kelsie? How do you know it was Kelsie? I just said the little girl and you would have had no knowledge which little girl it was otherwise."

I froze, not wanting to say anything more in case it got me into trouble.

She smiled daintily. "Oh don't you worry Karen. I've got my eyes on you. And trust me, I know that Sean's involved, however much I wish he wasn't."

My blood ran cold in my veins. She knew about Sean. He thought he was free of suspicion but he was simply walking on glass about Eva's head. Any move could get him killed.

Eva stepped back from the bars and started walking away. "I've got my eyes on you Karen!" She said in a sing-song voice over her shoulder.

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