Dangerous Minds: A Cyrus Cooper Thriller: Book One by Weaver Xander

Author:Weaver, Xander [Weaver, Xander]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2014-05-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Mayflower Lab Facility

Hennings, South Carolina

10:31 a.m.

Though she was seated on a stool, Gertrude leaned heavily against her cane while she struggled to regain her breath. The rapid pace she’d set in the rush to reach her lab was akin to a mad dash given her age, and she was feeling the effects. While she wasn’t entirely sure what was happening, it was a virtual certainty that William was behind it. The guards who had attacked them in the hall were veterans of the facility. Every one of them had been stationed there for at least the last nine months. For them to turn on her now seemed to be an impossibility. Each member of the facility’s security team had been hand selected for the assignment, and each possessed integrity that was beyond reproach. It was crucial, given the nature of her research.

It had to be William, she was certain of it. How he had managed it was another matter entirely. The facility and its staff had been equipped with all of the necessary countermeasures. Not that she ever expected to be protecting the project from her own grandson.

“Are you alright?” Cyrus asked. His concern for her wellbeing was plainly visible in his eyes.

The young man was another variable that Gertrude had been trying to qualify. There was something about him, but she had consistently failed to put her finger on the exact quality that brought about her concern. By all accounts he seemed perfect for the position. Over qualified, in fact. For a time, she’d attributed her concern to that over-qualification, but now the ‘disconnect’ had become painfully apparent. The way he handled the pair of armed assailants attempting to rob the market was one thing. However unlikely, that could be attributed to a fortunate confluence of opportunity and luck; not to mention, how he claimed to have worked with a high-profile client and had learned many things regarding protection. But the way he had disabled the pair of armed guards, Marines no less, outside of her lab? That was another matter. Lightning didn’t strike the same place twice, and no one was that lucky.

Still, she pushed those concerns aside for the moment. They had made it to the relative safety of her lab, but they were still cornered. The Mayflower Laboratory was located eight stories beneath the foundation of the city’s central post office. In here, they weren’t just cornered—they were cornered in a very deep dark hole.

“I’m alright,” she said in a voice that was so weak that she surprised even herself. “I just need a moment to catch my breath.”

But the look he was giving her indicated he was anything but convinced by her explanation. Plus, there was something more in his appraising stare; an unasked question of some kind that she was starting to dread.

“Okay, out with it,” she said with a flagging sense of patience. “Speak your mind.”

“I think it’s time you leveled with me,” he said without hesitation, and in a tone that no longer deferred to her as a superior.

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