Empowered: Traitor (The Empowered Series Book 2) by Dale Ivan Smith

Author:Dale Ivan Smith [Smith, Dale Ivan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-20T18:30:00+00:00

Frank was not happy to see us.

We had flown back to Redding, landing the copter at the airport, and then putting the armor and that cylinder into the back of another truck. We were supposed to drive back to Portland but I had a different idea, one that would get us more information on Emerald Biologic.

Frank opened the door a crack. “I told you I’m an independent contractor, remember?”

I nodded. “We need you for another job.”

She shook her head. “No way.”

This was getting nowhere fast. I hit the door, snapping the chain. I shoved my way inside, knocking her on her ass.

“You still are an independent,” I snarled. “We just need you for a new job. We’ll pay.”

She got up with a groan. “I gave you the reading that let you pull this job. That was all I was in for. ”

The others came in, Simon carrying one of the green-black armor panels.

Keisha loomed over Frank, and scowled at her. The ephedrine had done the trick and the swelling had disappeared, but Keisha was in a foul mood.

“Get ready to be useful again.”

Frank pushed herself up off the floor. Simon held the panel up to her, while Connor backed away, wide-eyed, and watched from the kitchen. The kid was spooked. For once I couldn’t blame him.

Frank shook her head. “I’m not touching whatever that is.” She crossed her arms. “You got your reading.”

She was stubborn, I’ll give her that.

I went over to her, nodded at Keisha, who went to Frank’s other side. We each grabbed an arm and pulled. Frank groaned, struggled, but we managed to get her arms free. “Simon, let her feel it,” I said.

He brought the panel up and I levered her arm around so that her palm faced the panel. She yelled, tried to fight it but her palm touched the panel.

Her eyes widened. “What the hell!”

“What do you see?”

Her eyes widened further. “Shit, what is this?”

Frank’s eyes took on a faraway look.

“This is alive but not like anything I’ve touched before.” She blinked. “There’s ocean, and a cave filled with these things, being grown and built at the same time.” She shuddered, pulled her hand back and collapsed on the couch.

“Where? Where was this?”

She shook her head. “Give me a moment, won’t you?” The anger was gone, she just sounded exhausted.

She rubbed her eyes with the heels of her hands. Coughed. Looked at me, like she was seeing me for the first time. “That thing is something new. When I read an object, I can see where it’s been, pick up impressions. When I touch a person, I can do likewise. I can see their past, in little flashes.

“With this thing it’s both. It was born, made, created, whatever, in a cave on the Oregon Coast. I’ve been to that stretch of coast before, I recognized it. I have a clear picture of what the place looks like. I also felt the panel being moved.”

“But how can you see with something that doesn’t have eyes?” Connor interrupted.

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