The Gender Plan (The Gender Game #6)

Mags shot me a hard look. “Our agreement was—”

“The people can’t agree to kick him out right now. They aren’t even talking to each other. It would be chaos. Restore order—be one of the groups the people start to look up to—then decide who is going to lead. Baby steps.”

“And in the meantime, Elena is coming up with something else.” Mags glowered angrily, and I sighed. We had fires on all fronts, and they were raging. But I knew we couldn’t worry about the fire on the other side of the river at the moment. The people came first.

“We’ll deal with it,” I said, easing up against the wall a few inches, pushing past the agony that made up one side of my ribs. “You haven’t known us long enough yet, but we always do. And this time, we’ll end it.”

I hoped.