Rita's POV

“Shut up, Rita! Are you trying to get us caught?” Maeve hissed from behind Lauren, her eyes darting nervously.

“Oh please. This whole mess started because you couldn’t follow simple instructions,” I shot back, my voice low and bitter. “I told you to hide Luke, not try to kill him. That’s when the whole plan started to go south. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, Vera had to go and screw things up even worse.”

I could feel the rage bubbling in my chest, the weight of ...