Chapter Seventeen
“I can’t believe you lied to me about the invisibility spray,” Jas said to Erielle.
“You think I’m going to tell a digifreak the truth?” the underworlder retorted as she retrieved the can from a cupboard in her munitions room. “This stuff’s so precious, I could sell it and buy enough blackmarket food to keep the whole neighborhood fed for a year.”
“I understand, I guess,” Jas said. “Still, if we’d had it when we tried to catch the Shadow, maybe no one would have been hurt.”
“I know. No need to remind me. That’s one reason I’m coming with you tonight. If anyone’s going to get hurt fighting these Shadows now, it should be me. I wasn’t thinking straight, and Makey suffered for it. I should have sided with you when you didn’t want to let him come with you, or I should hav
