Given_Project Xol by Amabel Daniels

Author:Amabel Daniels [Daniels, Amabel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Cassidy

Tami stared at me after finally telling me why she’d brought me here. Why she’d likely ordered her “recruits” to never kill me in the pursuit but to sedate me for transport here.

Me. Apparently the vessel to her DNA that she’d claimed possession to.

“You’re not getting anything from me,” I seethed.

I wasn’t sure about having kids. I was too young. I had years to figure that out. Even with the full force of realizing and accepting my love for Luke, I hadn’t dipped a toe in those particular waters. Did I love him? Hell yeah, I did. Did I want a future with him? Yes, however he could adjust to one with me. Did I want to have little Lukes and little Cassies running around? Maybe? I’d hardly had time to let this budding love stabilize while we’d been on the run.

My potential desire for a family aside, there was no way I’d want Tami to use me for any of her damn biogenetic goals.

“Says who?” she asked.

“Me.” I knew she was taunting me to realize I was powerless here, but I wouldn’t hesitate to stand up and at least vocally assert my will.

“Do you think that all the common patients who sacrificed their lives during our testing trials had any say?”

You evil, twisted piece of shit. “Sacrifices?” I spat.

She’d taken refuges, babies, criminals—all people who’d had no voice. She was nothing more than an organized mass murderer.

Ignoring me, she asked, “Do you think I’d have any problem holding you down and collecting what’s rightfully mine?”

“I’m not yours.”

“I will be the one to determine what belongs to me.” She leaned against the counter where the computer equipment sat. “Once that vial is delivered, we’ll prepare for the procedure.”

“Good luck.”

“I’ve never needed luck.”

“But you need that vial,” I said, my bravado increasing the more I thought about an inanimate item like the objective thing it was—unlike my very being.

“My security team will secure it.”

I shrugged. “Maybe, but the time’s running out. I’m no genius like you, but I bet the longer the vial is exposed to warmth, that DNA inside will start to unravel.”

She slammed her lips into a thin line. “And if that happens, we’ll have Scott’s code to identify the axolotls to get more of the beta DNA.”

I grinned, showing her my teeth. Stretching my lips so far reopened the cut from her slapping me and I let the blood drip. “Nope.”

“You’ll give us his code, just like Rosa gave us hers. She wasn’t strong enough and caved quite quickly.”

I soured at remembering Rosa’s confession. That they tortured her, bluffed that they were killing me before her eyes and left her locked in a room with the corpse.

“Nope.”

Tami cocked her head to the side. “I’ll kill her.”

“That’d actually be the only merciful thing you’re capable of.”

“You’d let her die?”

No. I swallowed hard. “She’d want it that way.” The truth. I spoke it as my own bluff, but it wasn’t a lie. Rosa told me not to risk saving her.

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