Bioluminescence (Bioluminescence Trilogy Book 1) by Toni Duarte

Author:Toni Duarte [Duarte, Toni]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

His first week at O’Hare, Adam didn’t sleep at all.

He’d zone out randomly. Only a few seconds at a time at first, so it was easy to hide, but it got worse each day. He was steadily losing his mind—paranoid, imagining things. On the sixth day, he completely lost his hold on reality. He snapped and stabbed one of the soldiers in the arm.

Not his best moment.

But instead of kicking him out, Elias, the leader of the settlement, decided to help. Their doctor gave Adam a small dose of medication every night, just enough to calm him and help him sleep. He was already familiar with benzos—they were his drug of choice before everything ended—but the small dose didn’t have the effect he remembered.

He finally slept but woke every hour or so in a cold sweat from the nightmares.

He was always tired.

Elias tried to keep him busy. Taught him how to take apart a gun and put it back together, which he did a dozen times a day just to try to focus his mind. Then he taught Adam to shoot. Wind calculation and range estimating came easy, and Elias told him he had a gift. He took a special interest in teaching him everything he knew, wanted him to train with his soldiers.

The attention was nice, but it was hard to focus when he was barely sleeping, so they increased his dosage and added uppers during the day to help Adam concentrate on training.

Addy for focus.

Xanny to numb.

His training got more intense every day. Elias stopped talking to him like a friend and started treating him like a soldier.

Adam had only wanted to feel safe, to have somewhere he belonged. Instead, Elias made him his own personal weapon. There was always a reason behind every good deed.

“We all have our roles to keep O’Hare safe,” Elias pointed out when Adam told him he didn’t want to train anymore. “We all have our place. Yours is behind that gun. You’re going to keep up with your training, and that’s an order, Kulyk.”

“I’m not your soldier. I’m done.”

“The medication is to help with your training,” Elias reminded him. “If you’re not interested, fine. I’m sure you won’t miss it.”

Adam scoffed. “I’ll be fine.”

But the horrible things that lurked in his dreams sent him crawling back the next day. Since then, he didn’t sleep without his medication. For a long time, he was able to keep them away. To fend off the demons that waited behind closed eyelids.

Until now.

Why didn’t he just let the bastard shoot him?

The darkness was heavy, impenetrable. A void that went on forever, silent and still, and Adam stood in the center of it. It was quiet, but the air crackled with strange energy, like the calm before a horrible storm, and he braced himself for what he knew was coming.

Something seeped through the black—first the hint of a silhouette, then the full shape of a figure. Lean, with narrow, pointed shoulders. He recognized the man, the razor-sharp chin and long silver hair, though his eyes were different now.

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