A few days later the world seemed to have tipped upside down, Morgan thought. Jack Kelley and some of his most trusted men had been released and had now long meetings with Connor, Master Kane and some of the council members. Rumours had it that the rebels dictated several reforms that would be put into action soon, and more rebels were released on a daily basis. The streets were full of happy people, laughing and celebrating the recent turn of events.
Even the bar that Morgan usually frequented was now filled with former rebels and soldiers celebrating together. The noise had forced Morgan to seek the quietude of his rooms at the palace. The only problem was that the rooms reminded him too much of Eva but he vowed that another bottle of liquor would take care of that.
Suddenly, someone banged loudly on his door.
"Go away!" Morgan shouted before returning to emptying his bottle. He heard a key being inserted in the keyhole and the door was pushed open.
"Ah, here you are, Morgan. Hiding, as usual?"
"Go away, Connor," Morgan snarled without turning toward his friend.
"Sure, but first we have a present for you."
Morgan turned around slowly, making sure his head wasn't spinning.
"What present?" At the same moment he recognised Jack Kelley coming through the door, carrying a bundle was over his shoulder. A bundle that was screaming and kicking at the same time.
"I'm going to kill you for this, Jack. Put me down!" Eva shouted loudly.
"Very soon, I will," Jack replied smilingly, before dumping her on Morgan's bed. Then he turned to Morgan and his smile disappeared immediately. "Treat her well, Taylor, or you will answer to me," he threatened.
"I thought I had renounced her?" Morgan said blurrily as he pointed to the woman on his bed.
"The petition was rejected," Connor intervened.
"On what grounds?"
"I can't remember," Connor said smilingly. "Can you, Kelley?"
"I believe Master Kane said 'lack of grounds', Governor," Jack Kelley smiled broadly.
"For god's sake, Jack," Eva shouted at her brother. "You can't leave me here with him. He tried to kill me, remember?"
"But he didn't," Connor replied smilingly. "Maybe you should ask him why he let you go without a scratch, sis?"
"What's going on here?" Morgan interrupted, feeling more sober than he had in days.
"We've reached a peace agreement. We suggest you two do the same," Connor smiled before both he and his new friend walked out the door and locked it behind them. Morgan could hear them barring the door from the outside locking him firmly inside with the woman he had never wanted to meet again.
Eva ran up to the door and started pounding her hands into it. "Damn it, Jack. How can you do this to me? Let me out of here!"
Morgan moaned as her screaming felt as if it was puncturing his brain.
"Not before you make some other types of screams, sis," Jack teased from the other side of the door. "But we can always find you both a vacant cell if the surroundings don't appeal to your sexual urges."
They heard several men laugh at Jack's statement, before the sound gradually faded as the men walked away from the door.
"I can't believe I share the same parents with that lackwit," Eva cursed as she walked around the room in search for a way out, or probably a weapon that she could kill him with.
Morgan almost laughed as he remembered how Connor had searched his room the day before and removed any weapons in sight. He would remember to thank him later on -- unless Eva decided to snap his head off with that tongue of hers.
"The least you could do is giving me a hand," Eva said angrily as she gave his bottle a telltale look.
"Help with what?" Morgan drawled as he leaned back in his chair, enjoying the look of her body in that tight skin suit of hers. Thanks to Connor and Jack Kelley he couldn't get rid of her anytime soon, he might as well enjoy the view, he thought. As long as he didn't get caught in her web again. But this time he knew what she was like.
"Help with getting out of here, of course."
"Speak for yourself. These are my rooms remember? You're the intruder."
"So you're not going to help me, is that it?"
"Nope," Morgan grabbed his bottle and drank a large sip as he tried his best to ignore the irate woman before him.
"You mean you will only sit there and drink your brains out?"
"That was my idea, yes. And if you'll stop jabbering I might do so in peace and quietude as I planned."
"Ha, so you're sulking then?"
"No, I'm not. I just have some spare time on my hand now that there are no more rebels to catch."
"In other words '
sulking
'."
"Call it whatever you like as long as you leave me alone."
"No, I won't leave you alone. I think it's about time that you explained a few things to me."
"Like what?"
"Like why you tried to kill me and didn't?"
"Why don't
you
tell
me
why you betrayed me?" Morgan snarled at her.
"I have an obligation to my people."