Gypsy (The Cavy Files Book 1) by Trisha Leigh

Author:Trisha Leigh [Leigh, Trisha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Author Published
Published: 2014-05-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

It’s too hot. There’s too much adrenaline coursing through my limbs. My heart races, and I can’t say anything because there’s sawdust and glue coating my tongue. Everyone is freaking out, talking at the same time with giant eyes and loud voices.

Flicker hasn’t been avoiding us or incapable of returning to Darley due to her issues with uncontrolled teleporting. Someone kidnapped her. They’re using her, and whoever it is knows about the rest of us, too.

She says a man named Greene might have answers. I know a man named Greene who has been searching for answers, at least for the past several months.

“Who are these others?” Haint asks, mimicking the question banging around my brain. “She said ‘They aren’t going to let you go.’”

“So?” Pollyanna challenges.

“So, what if that’s a clue? To let us go, they’d have to first have us, right?”

“You’re suggesting the Philosopher or other Darley staff have had Flicker this whole time?” Athena sounds as skeptical as I feel.

It’s not them. I just know it.

“They’re missing.” Mole gazes out at the water, the wheels in his brain turning almost audibly.

I’d already told them what Jude said, about our caretakers disappearing. There has been nothing in the news, no follow-up regarding their arraignments or trials or anything at all.

Haint’s dark, thoughtful eyes go around our circle. “Not the Philosopher. Think about it. Maybe I could believe one man could afford all of the technology and staff and other costs of operating Darley, if researching genetic mutation were really his thing. I’m not convinced he could hide that place, and us, and all that activity for almost twenty years. Not alone.”

“So they are the ones really behind Darley. Funding the Philosopher and his research,” Pollyanna muses. “That makes sense. If they were paying for everything, they’re invested in us. The cops busting the Philosopher wouldn’t change that.”

“And they’re the ones who attacked us the other day? Why not just come forward and reclaim us? Why leave us out here on our own?” Goose makes the leap from the money men to the homeless attackers, but the string between the two is pretty thin.

“Why doesn’t matter, you guys. We have to help Flicker. She’s one of us, and they’re hurting her.” Cold fear puddles in Reaper’s eyes, bright with tears. “We have to.”

“I know a man named Greene,” I whisper.

“What?” three or four of my Cavies gasp at once.

Haint snatches the floor. “How? Who?”

“He’s the reporter, the one who found Darley. And he’s still looking for information on us. He doesn’t believe the story the cops got is the whole thing, based on what he saw out there.”

“How do you know this?” Pollyanna asks, her gaze as level as her voice.

“His son is the kid who came over to check on me after the stabbing. The one I saw dead. He befriended me because his dad wanted him to try to get close to me, see if I’d say anything.” It sucks admitting the kids at CA were only interested in my background, but not more than the helplessness over Flicker.

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