Breathless City (Breathless Series Book 1) by Renée des Lauriers

Author:Renée des Lauriers [des Lauriers, Renée]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-25T05:00:00+00:00

9

Stella wanted to smash that mechanized hummingbird into pieces. She had seen Xander tracking the movements of that little bird. She knew that calculating look. Even after taking Gavin into an infested city to avoid suspicion, his cover was blown. She knew what Xander would want to do with a scientist from the factory.

Stella watched Gavin in the rearview mirror as she began the drive back. He looked merely uncomfortable with all the stares. He had no idea about the kind of trouble he had brought down upon himself. With all the increased attention on him, Gavin was never going to be able to just slip away. All eyes were going to be on him from here on out.

Stella drove in quiet anger, and she wasn’t alone in her silence. The men in the back of the van watched Gavin in open curiosity. It was only a matter of time before one of them gathered up the courage to ask him about the factory.

Though it wasn’t something that anyone talked about, everyone knew about the oxygen factory. Everyone knew that it existed. The proof came in the weekly shipments that arrived every Monday without fail. Little was known about the factory. Not about how it started, or how it operated. Anyone who said differently was probably lying. All of humankind depended on the shipments from the factory. Everyone would be dead within weeks without it.

“Is it true what they say about the oxygen factory?” Dan blurted out, breaking the silence. No longer able to resist the temptation, when all this forbidden knowledge sat right across from him.

“What do they say about it?” Gavin picked his head up to look at Dan.

“That it’s filled with hundreds of animals. That they do all sorts of experiments. That they have a cure for the infection. That the people who live there never get sick, and that no one that lives there has ever died,” Dan said all in a rush.

All of their heads seemed to lean toward Gavin, waiting for his answer. Even Xander in the front seat quit his silent reflections to listen in.

“No,” Gavin replied mildly. “That’s not true. Except for the part about the experiments. We do those.”

“How did you get there?” Sam cut in.

“I was brought to the factory when I was a baby. I don’t remember anything before.” Gavin loosened his arms from their tight grip across his chest as he spoke about his home.

“Where is it?” Sam asked again.

“The factory is under the ocean, along the Atlantic coast. Approximately fifty or sixty miles away from here.” Gavin gestured in the direction of the shore, as if he could just touch it.

Sam paused, seeming startled by the specificity of the answer. “Could we get there from here?”

“You could try, but you might get eaten along the way. The toxins had a bad effect on some of the aquatic life.” Gavin shook his head.

“What kind of foods do they have at the oxygen factory?” Ben called out.

In spite of her anger, Stella found herself fighting against a grin.

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