#Chapter 106 – Training Camp

“Is Amelia going to be there?” Alvin asks as Evelyn loads a cooler full of snacks into the back of the hummer.

“What?” Evelyn says, confused. “No. Why would Amelia be there?”

Ian shrugs. “She said she’s gonna ruin our lives. She didn’t say when. She could be anywhere.”

Evelyn shakes her head and goes to kneel next to her boys, concerned. She really wishes that they hadn’t been privy to that conversation, but she can’t help it now.

“You boys don’t need to think about that,” she says. “Amelia was just mad – she didn’t mean it. And your daddy and I can protect you. Plus! We’re going to a military Beta base!” she says, very cheerful. “There are lots of Betas there, all sworn to protect you. I promise, you’ll be fine.”

The boys nod, encouraged, and climb into the back of the car.

Victor is cheerful as he comes down the driveway, dressed not in a suit but in tactical black. Evelyn smirks, thinking that the last time she saw him dressed like this was during her rescue from her father’s house. When she’d had a chance to get up-close and personal with that tactical gear, pressed into the little hideaway in her closet.

She glances down at herself, her jeans and blue cardigan. “Am I…underdressed? Do I need something in a camo print?”

He laughs, considering her. “No, civilian. You’re fine.”

“I want camo print!” Ian shouts from the back of the car.

Victor smirks and gives Evelyn a false look of derision. “Now you’ve got them started.”

She laughs. “You’re the one dressed like a GI Joe.”

“Touche!” he says, swinging him into the car. “Everyone buckled up?” When he hears three assenting answers, Victor swings the car out of the driveway and onto the open road. To more hummers full of Betas follow.

and the boys out to the Beta barracks. They’d all been very excited when he told them his new plan to incorporate Rogues into his Beta forces – Evelyn’s eyes had welled up at the idea – and it’s time for the boys to

trip is a long one, two hours out to the middle of nowhere, beyond his farm and the woods in which they had gone camping, out to a flat plane

gasps when they start to pull into view of his forces. “Oh my god, Victor,” she says, truly awed. “Is this

she’s impressed. But it is an impressive space. They pull through a tall metal gate topped with barbed wire and drive through what seems like a small city’s worth of cinder-block buildings topped with corrugated

a small set of woods

Evelyn leans forward, squinting to

else would

“You have a helicopter?”

smirks. “I have

at him, but turns towards the back seat when she hears Ian shuffle close to Alvin to whisper. “Three for me and three for you,” he hisses. Evelyn laughs as Alvin

get one?” she asks. Ian, equally

a spot by the nicest building in the area, made of bricks instead

opening his own door and stepping out. “With a little sleep space, in case I

the car and take them by the hand, leading them into

love it here,”

good,” Alvin adds with a

“Really? I think it’s kind of…bland.

head at her, baffled and a little disgusted. “You just don’t get it mom.” She laughs again

as she puts her bag down on a metal chair by the door. The room is very small, with a big metal desk at the center of it. In a corner is a single bed, sparsely dressed with

walls of the room, Evelyn is surprised to see, is actually a sliding glass door that opens into a grassy area, with a firepit sunk into the ground. She notes a series of camping chairs lined up against the wall. For more casual meetings, she assumes, or perhaps

to the side, considering this office’s contrast with Victor’s modern

the bed. “I love it here,

can stay for a little while,” he says, and then looks up at her. “But maybe we can

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