Goldilocks by Laura Lam

Author:Laura Lam [Lam, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2020-05-05T00:00:00+00:00

It took her a few tries to find the subfolder. She stared at the list of messages. They were all marked as read. Should she start with the most recent one, or the oldest?

It mattered little, in the end. Most of the messages were more or less the same. In the early ones, they were official, with all the pomp and circumstance:

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to ensure the safety and integrity of its citizens, in accordance with other major world leaders, it is hereby ordered as follows:

… and so on. Demanding they return at once or face the consequences. Citing the specific laws they had broken. Berating them like they were a group of errant children. Small wonder Valerie had ignored those.

Naomi should find the messages frightening, but way out here, it was hard to feel intimidated. She couldn’t help but read the missives in Cochran’s voice. He had a peculiar intonation—in his speeches, he tried for gravitas but ended up speaking with that untethered transatlantic accent from old movies. Cochran was a desiccated hard-boiled egg of a man—hair too white to be from anything but a bottle, pale skin spotted with freckles. His dark eyes, blond eyebrows and eyelashes gave him the look of a skinny, naked mole rat, but with perfect, Chicklet teeth. He’d been handsome, once, but time and hatred had bleached him.

The later missives had their hot air punctured. They were more informal, with an edge of desperation.

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