Everyone was flabbergasted (LOL funny word) by Jeb's freak-out response. "No that's not possible…I made sure to keep you guys safe…it can't be…I don't understand." During his crazed mumblings Evermore just looked at him, and then she began to laugh. But this was no ordinary laugh; no this was a cackle, a cackle filled with hate and venom.
"You tried to keep us safe, ha-ha," Evermore managed to reduce her deranged cackling into somewhat saner snickers, "Then what the hell do you call those years we spent in Itex and the subsequent running we had to do even when you let us out?" By now Evermore was glaring at Jeb with such force that it wouldn't have been very surprising if he spontaneously burst into flames and became a pile of ash.
Ari decided now would be the time to intervene, "Ev calm down we don't have time for this right now but I promise you when we get all of this stuff taken care of I will let you do whatever you want to him alright." Having successfully talked Evermore out of whatever thoughts were running through her mind (no doubt terrible due to her heavy stare) Ari turned to the others, "Sorry about that as you can see Evermore has major daddy issues, even worse than Max has I'm sure."
Nobody really knew how to respond to that but Dr. M decided to step up and carry on the conversation, "Um what exactly is the Corporation?" Before Evermore answered she looked out at the window behind their heads, "Its worse than Itex and the Institute for Higher Living combined," she paused briefly, "Its Hell on Earth."
"Why were you and Fang there?" Ella timidly asked. At this Evermore quirked a wry smile, "Because Fang always was too protective and much too hardheaded." Clearly that was not the type of answer they were expecting. But before anyone could ask for an elaboration on Evermore's previous statement, her head shot up and there was a newfound look in her eyes that had everyone on guard.
Two words were all it took to make their blood run frigidly cold in their veins.
"He's here."