Grip (The Slip Trilogy Book 2) by Estes David

Author:Estes, David [Estes, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2014-11-30T14:00:00+00:00

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After leaving Minda and Simon to talk, Benson asks a few of the guards if they’ve seen his brother. The third one he speaks to says, “He went to the top floor with that worthless Slip who got everyone killed.”

Somehow he’s not surprised that Harrison and Destiny are still together. He starts for the stairs, but a voice stops him. “Benson?” his mother says, somewhere in the dark.

He makes for her voice. He finds her propped up on one elbow, right where he left her. “You need to sleep, Mother,” he says.

“Your brother is very sorry,” she says.

“Harrison?” he says, as if he has more than one brother.

“He wants golden sunrises and rainbows for the both of us,” she says, her eyes lighting up. “No, that didn’t make sense.” She taps her fingers on her skull. “Harrison wants straight arrows and umbrellas on rainy days. For you. For me. That’s better. Much better.”

Benson thought the first analogy made more sense, but he doesn’t comment. Instead, he asks, “Why is Harrison sorry?”

She scratches her head. “He didn’t say.”

“Wait. Wait just a minute.” Benson needs a moment of quiet. Something isn’t right. Well, something other than the fact that he’s travelling with a band of government fugitives. Something else, specific to his brother.

Harrison went with Destiny to the sixth floor.

“Umbrellas on a rainy day,” Janice muses softly.

He’s very sorry for something.

“Straight arrows, pointing at my heart,” she says.

We have to kill Benson’s dud. His old Death Match has to die so he can live.

“Oh no,” Benson breathes.

Benson rushes back to the guard who told him where his brother went, leaving Janice muttering to herself. “Did he have his hoverboard?” Benson asks.

“Your brother?” the guard asks.

“No, bot-lickin’ Santa Claus,” he says, his patience gone. “Did. Harrison. Have. His. Hover. Board?”

The guard looks like he’d rather punch Benson than answer the question, but he says, “Yeah, so what? And that girl was wearing her hoverskates. They were probably going to do some stupid hoverdance together when they were supposed to be watching the perimeter.”

The guy keeps talking, but Benson is already gone, flying across the room, into the stairwell, bounding up the steps, his heart pounding, his breath heaving.

He throws open the door to the large space on the sixth floor.

Silence.

“Harrison?” he says. “Destiny?”

A breeze ruffles his wavy hair, cooling the sweat on his face.

The window is wide open.

Harrison and Destiny are gone.

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