Bittersweet Darkness by Nina Croft

Author:Nina Croft
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-02-24T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

“Will she be all right?” Faith asked, fighting to keep the disgust and hatred out of her voice.

“From the gas—she should be. It will knock her out for an hour, but she should have no aftereffects.”

Through the glass, Faith could see the room was already clearing, revealing Tara’s unconscious form curled in a fetal position in front of the mirror.

“From the drugs…” The colonel shrugged. “Who knows? That didn’t go as expected. I think we’ll have to add enhanced strength as one of the side effects.”

He turned from the mirror to face Faith. She quickly schooled her features to blankness.

“I’m sorry, we didn’t get to hear anything interesting,” he said. “And I’m guessing the good doctor will suggest leaving the next session until morning. He’s probably getting his nose fixed.” He sounded amused.

How could someone be so untouched by this? Is that what happened if you saw enough evil? You became immune?

Faith never, never wanted to feel like that.

The adrenaline drained from her system, leaving her shaky and sick. She had to get out of there.

“I’d like to come back for the next session,” she said, pretending to be unaffected.

“Good. I was worried you’d be too squeamish to accept what has to be done. But I think you’re going to be an excellent addition to the team.”

She kept her walk steady as she made her way back to the upper level. Only when she locked herself in the ladies’ room did she give in. There was nothing in her stomach, but she retched anyway, bile flooding her mouth.

Afterward, she stared at her reflection and realized she was crying. Tears dropped in a trickle down her cheek. That wouldn’t do. She scrubbed at her eyes with the back of her hand, then splashed cold water over her face. Sniffing one last time, she blew her nose and patted her cheeks dry with a paper towel.

Squeamish didn’t cover it.

Despair. That’s what she felt. A deep, bone-numbing despair as though her whole world was been ripped down around her. All her life, all she’d ever wanted was to work for the good guys, to make the world a better place.

This world wasn’t better.

The hopeless expression in Tara’s eyes haunted her. And a new emotion rose up to drown out the despair.

Rage.

No one had the right to do that to anyone. To treat any human that way.

She had to do what she could to save Tara. It would be the end of her career, but her future no longer mattered. The doctor had told her she needed to inform her employers. She was a risk. But this might also mean she ended up in prison. Did she want to spend her last weeks—or months or however long she had left—in a cell?

A cell like Tara’s.

If she did nothing, she didn’t think she could live with herself. It would be irrelevant where she was.

But the thing that was really tearing her apart was Ash.

He would hate her. If she’d told them straightaway that she’d recognized Adams, maybe they could have found Tara before they’d harmed her.

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