Burning Choice (Trevor's Harem Book 3) by Aubrey Parker
Author:Aubrey Parker [Parker, Aubrey]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: EROS
Published: 2016-03-01T00:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Daniel
Trevor grabs me by the lapel and says, âWhat the fuck do you think youâre doing?â
I swear, for a bulletproof system, everyone seems to think I have way more influence than I should, or can, or ever could.
âIâm going to the courtyard,â I say.
I pull again, but Trevorâs grip on my arm is tighter than I thought. Iâm much bigger than he is, but Trevor is scrappy-strong. Part of his upbringing, I suppose, always fighting who he is â always struggling to prove himself in new ways because he never had to prove himself in the ways most of us need to. I can sympathize. I fought more than I should have, too. I owe my physique to childhood torment, to pain I couldnât expunge. Every fiber inside me, other than whatâs strictly necessary to move my bones, is Bridgetâs doing. I built myself into something sheâd desire so that I could never let her have it. So I could use my body to punish her. And today, with all I know, I can see it for the shell it is. Just as I can see what Trevor truly wants from me and what heâs afraid of, as if he were made of glass.
Thatâs the problem with my line of work. The more I study and the more I design experiments like this one, the more people become automatons. I see every person for who he or she is, including â reluctantly â myself. I used to ask questions about free will versus determinism, but I donât anymore. Now I know that of course we have free will, to do what our biology and collected pasts determine we do.
âYou know what I mean.â
âIâm sorry, Trevor. I donât.â
Again, I pull past him. The girls are waiting, and today itâs another of them on trial. Any one of them might go. There are limits to what I can and canât control. The programmers, in their tamperproof wisdom, saw to that rather abundantly.
But Trevor still holds my arm.
âDonât fuck with me, Daniel.â
I turn. Weâre both dressed casually in jeans. The analytical part of my brain wants to make something of it, beyond the fact that we dress well for events and down for everyday wear. Itâs totally random and up to whim. But itâs so hard to believe in chance these days, and to not believe weâre dressing this way for a reason, rather than because we want to.
âI know youâre with her. I know youâre still with her.â
I could deny it, but as much as Iâd like to treat Trevor like a brainless pretty boy, heâs anything but.
âAnd?â I say.
âShe was supposed to be eliminated next.â
âIâll tell you what I told the board: You have a problem with the selections, talk to Halo. Believe me, Iâd consider it a favor. Logic is no substitute for intuition.â
âIf you were in charge of making the selections, as you want,â Trevor says, âyouâd eliminate Bridget.â
âIâd eliminate the least-fitting candidate each round.â
âAnd youâd be objective.â
âOf course.
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