Beyond the Night by Colleen Gleason

Author:Colleen Gleason [Gleason, Colleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781929613540
Publisher: Avid Press
Published: 2016-11-23T06:00:00+00:00

The second morning he woke in Envy, Quent tried to find his way back to Lou’s hidden computer center, and ended up in some dank, dirty, overgrown area inside the hotel. Every bloody time he touched a wall, he heard screams and saw blood and visionless eyes and other nightmarish images of crumbling walls, yawning crevices, fire and raging destruction.

Sagging, sweat pouring down his face and terror in his brain, he closed his eyes, fighting the pull of memories that didn’t belong to him. Memories he didn’t want and didn’t need….thoughts he could no longer control.

The floor rose up beneath him, and he was swept away into madness and fear and pain….

“Quent!”

The sound of his name tugged at him, and then pressure on his shoulders and arm drew him from the darkness that had overtaken him. Slowly, slowly, his mind crawled back to reality, and at last he opened his eyes.

Elliott Drake looked down at him.

“Quent, what the hell are you doing here?” His face was taut with concern. “What happened?” Before he could reply, Dred’s hands were moving over him, scanning to be certain he wasn’t injured.

But it wasn’t his body that was fucked up.

“I got lost,” he said, sitting up slowly. It had never been this bad before…the memories had never been that strong, that overwhelming. He realized with a deep, leveling shock that he no longer recognized his environment. Hadn’t his last real memory been of an overgrown part of the hotel, inside the building?

Now, a blue sky blazed above him and moss-covered, mildew-blackened buildings rose in close quarters around him. He was lying on the ground, outside, and Dred and the woman…Jade…were crouched next to him.

What were they doing here? Hadn’t they left Envy on some mission?

Quent reached out and connected with Dred’s hand. No, it was really him, real flesh and blood. “What are you doing here?” he managed to ask.

“We just got back. We were coming into town and found you here.” Dred looked as though he were ready to call the guys in the white coats, and maybe he damn well should. “How long have you been here?”

Quent shook his head. “I don’t know. I was looking for Lou’s room and got lost. The next thing I know, I touched something. The memories swarmed over me, the images and violence…I don’t remember anything after that.” He was sitting up fully now, and only a lingering cloudiness remained. “Is it still Wednesday? I left my room around nine-thirty or so.”

Elliott’s face relaxed a little. “Yes. It’s not quite noon on Wednesday. So you haven’t been gone for too long.”

Thank God.

“But you’re back from…where did you go?”

“A place called Greenside,” Jade said, speaking for the first time. “We have some things for Lou to look at, and Elliott thought you should take a look as well.” She sat back on her haunches and glanced at Dred. “It’s a good thing we came back in through the Tunnel, or we wouldn’t have found you here, in this area of town.

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