Concealed (Virus Book 1) by RJ Crayton

Author:RJ Crayton [Crayton, RJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-05-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Elaan tossed a couple more things in the box, while her father returned to his own room, grabbed a small satchel, and locked his door. A moment later, they left the apartment. Lijah led the way, with her father in the middle and Elaan bringing up the rear. She had more questions, so many more questions, but she couldn’t ask them out in the hallway where passersby might overhear.

They passed Dave, a guy who also worked in the lab, walking somewhere with his wife. Her father and Lijah managed friendly hellos while Elaan could only muster a nod. She wondered if she looked scared. Or confused. She felt both.

Elaan’s mind still reeled. Lijah and Josh had been given a vaccine that would turn them into carriers if they were exposed to the virus again. Carriers who were sterile. Josh wasn’t really immune like she was. It had been a lie. A lie to keep Josh away from the uptop, a lie to get him into the safe housing.

Before she knew it, they were entering the lab. Lijah and her dad went in first, and Elaan arrived just in time to see Kingston yank a backpack from Josh’s hand and stuff it behind a lab table.

Kingston, tall with brown hair, an angular face, bushy brows and narrow black glasses, glared and said, “Why are you here? What’s in the boxes?”

“We’re here for the same reason you called Josh here,” Lijah said, challenge in his voice. “Did you even consider warning us, Kingston?”

Josh took a step away from his father. He looked at Lijah, then back at his father and shook his head in disgust. “You said they’d just found out about me,” Josh said to his father. “You said they didn’t know about him.”

“Well, he lied,” Lijah said unapologetically. “They know about me, and they want Elaan, too. So, we all need to go.”

Josh turned toward Elaan, squinting in confusion. “Why do they want her?” he asked. “She hasn’t done anything wrong. She’s the only one of us who was telling the truth, right? She’s immune, right?”

Everyone had lied so much about everything that Josh’s question seemed appropriate. Lijah responded to Josh with a nod, and Elaan felt a sudden relief. At least that was one thing they hadn’t lied about.

Her father spoke. “Elaan is immune. However, many of the immunes are immune to only the airborne version. She’s immune to both the airborne and the fluid-passed versions of the virus. They’d like to do more research on her. Many things have been floated around, the most simple of them being that they’d like to clone her to do more research.”

Elaan felt her stomach plummet. “What?” she asked, so startled by her father’s pronouncement that she dropped her box.

James turned to Elaan and picked up the box. “You’ve heard of Dolly the sheep, right?”

She nodded, thinking of the first successful clone in the world.

“Well, cloning has gotten much better since her. Generally, with cloning you’ve had to take the DNA, insert it into an egg, and carry it to term as a baby,” he said softly, staring at her.

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