Ghost Heart by Ripley Patton

Author:Ripley Patton [Ripley Patton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ripley Patton
Published: 2014-09-17T12:23:53+00:00

16

MARCUS

“No.” I grabbed my aunt’s arm gently, holding her back. “I’m done resting. If you’re going to make plans, I want in on it. And I want answers.”

She looked at my uncle, a glance passing between them. Samantha claimed they’d been fighting, that my aunt had cheated on my uncle and left him for some other guy who’d been trying to take over The Hold. But that one look made me doubt everything she’d said. Separated, broken couples did not exchange collusive glances like that. Maybe my aunt had slept with some guy. Maybe it had been the only way she and my uncle could maintain their hooks in The Hold. But they weren’t truly at odds, that much I was sure of. As for my aunt suddenly showing up to take my side and champion a rescue? Yeah, they weren’t fooling me. Still, if it got me to Oregon and closer to Danielle, I’d play along with them. For now.

“Fair enough.” My aunt sat back down in the chair next to my bed. “What do you want to know?”

“Chloe,” my uncle said, feigning concern and stepping further into the room. “They’ve warned us not to overload him.”

“I’m not a fucking computer,” I snapped. “I think I can handle it.”

“It could make things worse,” he said.

“Like how?” I laughed bitterly. “I’m not going to forget more. I’ve already got Swiss cheese for brains. Besides, as you pointed out earlier, I’m not your captive. And I’m not a minor. Legally, I get to decide my own course of treatment and recovery. Don’t I?”

“Technically, yes,” my uncle answered, his lips pressed together in displeasure.

“Technically?” I echoed, glancing around the room. Passion. My aunt. The woman who’d come with her who was apparently a doctor. Were any of them allies? Passion had at least told me the truth about my memory loss, but at the moment she seemed to have about as much power as I did. Still, I could use the presence of my aunt and this doctor to my advantage. My uncle always liked to look like the good guy. He’d proven that earlier with his whole revised history of my parents’ deaths. Now we’d see how committed he was to maintaining that image.

“So which is it? Am I your prisoner, your patient, or your nephew?” I pressed him.

He gave a sidelong glance at Dr. Black. “You are my nephew and my patient,” he answered. “And yes, you have the right to dictate your own treatment.”

“Good,” I said. “Then I want to go to Oregon on this rescue mission. And if I’m going to do that, I need to know who this Olivia and Grant are. How did they get taken by the CAMFers and what is their connection to me and Danielle?”

There was a long pause. Everyone seemed to be waiting for someone else to answer. The expression on Passion’s face looked pained, like my question had somehow hurt her.

“Olivia is my daughter,” Dr. Black finally said. “She ran away from our home in Illinois three weeks ago.

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