Edge of Survival Box Set 1 by William Oday

Author:William Oday [Oday, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: William Oday
Published: 2019-03-09T07:00:00+00:00

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“Please take me with you,” Diana said as she grasped Beth’s arm. The days since their last encounter had not been kind. What may have once been a nice blouse was now little more than a tattered brown rag. The sleek material that was once suit pants now hung in patches that revealed more skin than it covered.

“Please Elizabeth,” she said, “help me.”

Despite never liking the woman, and at the end absolutely hating her, Beth was not the type to turn away another in need.

Diana faltered and Beth caught her hands before she collapsed.

“Come sit down.” Beth led her to a chair and then helped her take a seat. “What happened to you?”

Diana stared at her hands as she rubbed at the coating of filth. She pinched her lips together and shook her head.

“Diana, tell me. How did you end up here, like this?”

She looked back up at Beth. Her eyes glistened with tears. “He left me here.”

“Who is he?”

“Anton Reshenko.” Her jaw twitched and her eyes grew hard. “After all I did for him! He left me to die!” Her back straightened as anger burned the tears away.

“Reshenko?” Beth said aloud even though she wasn’t asking a question. That was Iridia’s last name. Had Mason ever mentioned her father’s name? She couldn’t remember for certain. She just knew that he was some kind of high-level scientist working for the government.

“Yes, he’s the Chief Virologist for Milagro Corporation. He’s the reason we needed the Bili chimpanzees.”

Beth froze. Her heart stopped. The blood in her veins turned to ice. The compassion she’d felt at Diana’s condition vanished.

“What did you just say?”

“I don’t care if you know. What does it matter now? Nothing matters now. Look at me! I may as well be dead!”

Beth grabbed her shoulders and would’ve been shocked by how bony they felt were it not for the crashing wave of fury in her gut. “What do you mean? Why did he want the chimps?”

Diana’s eyes opened wide and she stared up at Beth, apparently realizing that maybe it did still matter to someone else. She sat there with her mouth hanging open.

Beth shook her violently. She wanted to wrap her hands around Diana’s throat and choke the life out of her. Sadly, Diana was in no condition to resist for long so the pleasure wouldn’t last.

“Don’t hurt me! Please! It’s not my fault!”

“Tell me what happened to the Bili chimps. You told me they were going to zoos in other countries. I wondered why I could never get ahold of them. That was a lie, wasn’t it?”

Diana nodded her head.

Yes. Death by strangulation was the best this criminal could hope for.

“Then what actually happened to the chimps?” Beth leveled Arctic-cold eyes at Diana. They silently promised unspeakable violence if she refused to answer.

Diana crumbled to the concrete floor. “He demanded it. I couldn’t say no. I wasn’t involved in that part of the company, but I heard it was supposed to be a super vaccine. The last flu vaccine you’d ever need.

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