Deviant Evolution by L. V. Lane

Author:L. V. Lane [Lane, L. V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: science fiction, Romance
Goodreads: 46324614
Publisher: Three Spires Pty Ltd
Published: 2019-08-21T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

AFTER THE THIRD mysteriously canceled meeting with Military Command, the last of which had taken me clear over to the other side of the city, I was starting to become suspicious.

Was this Tsing’s doing? I had acquired enough information over the last couple of weeks to have cause for concern. But, I was hoping my contact would have information that might shed some further light.

Peppermint Moon was one of Chimera’s premier clubs. It was part of a chain and its owner, Lucian, was a fellow Lyus conscript who had left the military five years earlier under a mutual agreement…of sorts.

I had built my past life on collecting favors. I still collected them, and I had acquired a great variety over the last ten year since leaving Lyus. And I still held a few from before the conscription. The business empire Lucian owned had once belonged to someone else. I’d helped him remove the ‘someone else’.

Lucian owed me, and I was about to collect.

It was mid-afternoon, but the club never closed. Music thumped, subtle lighting illuminated, and barely clothed waitstaff mingled with patrons to ensure their every need was met.

A black-suited floor manager escorted me through the heaving mass where I disentangled myself from clinging arms on the way to Lucian’s first-floor office.

Inside, a windowed wall provided a view of the club, and if not for that scene, I might have imagined myself in the domain of the high-flying, corporate elite.

Lucian greeted me with a broad smile.

I’d been told on plenty of occasions that I bore an uncivilized facade of barely suppressed violence. If I was night, Lucian was day. The epitome of a wealthy businessman. With neatly trimmed, dark-blond hair, brilliant green eyes, and a suit that probably cost more than Chimera’s average annual income.

“What is it this time? You only call me when you’re calling in a damn favor,” he said by way of greeting.

“I could say the same,” I replied.

He chuckled. “Yeah, guilty.”

We sat down at the low seating arrangement facing the club. Two thick-necked Alphas braced the door, and a female Beta, wearing next to nothing, brought over drinks.

She made a point of placing Lucian’s drink down as if terrified to get too close.

I frowned, women weren’t usually so wary. Most couldn’t keep their hands off of him.

“You were right,” Lucian said, distracting me from this odd behavior. “There is a black market drug that originated with the program. And it’s lucrative.”

“What does it do?”

“Turns non-dynamics into Omegas…so long as you pick the right candidates.” He adjusted the collar of his shirt as though—uncomfortable?

“You’ve used it,” I said. That drug was from the project Lilly had been working on, and it appeared Tsing was farming it out. If it originated with the program, there was no doubt in my mind he was behind it.

Lucian shrugged. “I had to know if it worked…and I happened to have the right kind of candidate.”

I raised an eyebrow, still thrown a little by his cagy reaction. “Must be hard to hide a gifted?”

“They’re not gifted.

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