297 What's at Stake

~ SASHA  ~ 

Sasha stood, back still to the tree, stunned speechless.

The picture Nick painted, the motives these people had… and yes, the plan. She could see it. It was like something out of a bad science fiction movie. But if these past few weeks had shown her anything it was that those stories perhaps weren't nearly as much fiction as she'd always believed.

His words kept echoing in her head.

They're going to make them gods.

Did these men really believe that? It made a sick kind of sense—why they seemed so cold and calculating about it all. The power they thought they'd gain.

Nick had been right, she hadn't seen how big this was. That scared her, though, because what else was she missing.