Mackenzie Legacy, The by Anderson Derrolyn

Author:Anderson, Derrolyn [Anderson, Derrolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-04-03T06:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Thirteen

YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN

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She staggered out of town hall in a daze, letting Calvin help her into the truck.

“I can’t believe it,” she said numbly.

“Yeah… Two thousand acres! That’s like…” he couldn’t think of a comparison, “a lot.”

She looked at him, shaking her head, “No… not that. My father had another sister.”

“Yeah, but isn’t that a good thing?” he asked. “Maybe you can meet her someday or something.”

She shook her reeling head. “No… No, I can’t.”

“Why not?”

“I’m afraid she’s dead. She killed herself.”

“What?! How do you know that?”

“Because she was Layla and Michael’s mother.”

“You mean the twins?” he asked, confused. “How could that be?”

She looked at him with shocked eyes, speaking in a monotone, “My father and his sister were the only survivors of the fire that killed their whole family. They were adopted by two different families, and they ended up at the same school by chance. With the same professor.”

“Professor Reed?”

Her voice cracked, “I bet they never even realized that they were brother and sister when they met…”

“Wait– Why wouldn’t he know her name?”

“She went by a nick-name… Trina.” Another piece of the puzzle clicked into place. “And she was a baby when they were separated. She wouldn’t have known a thing about him…”

“What are the odds that they would both end up in the same place?”

“Stranger things have happened,” she said.

“So you think Professor Reed messed them both up.”

She shook her head sadly, “Yes.”

“And the twins are your cousins?”

“Yes, and do you realize what that means?” Her voice was quavering with suppressed emotion, “There is no Athena effect!”

Calvin looked puzzled, “But he gave them both the Athena drug, so–”

“Yes, and all it did was destroy their minds! That lady in Vegas– Roxy– She was right! Me and Layla are just like her. We were born this way!”

She laid out all the evidence, piecing together the puzzle as she explained it to him. The more she went over it, the more sense it made, and by the time she was finished explaining it to him, she knew exactly what she had to do.

“Are you sure about this?” Calvin asked. “Maybe it’s only a coincidence…”

She sighed. “I almost wish it was, but no… When the professor tested us, he found that we shared matriarchal DNA. He wrongly assumed that the Athena drug was the cause of the mutations on our X chromosomes, but he was wrong. There’s only one possible explanation… It’s simple heredity. Seeing the auras must be a naturally occurring phenomenon… And it’s inheritable.”

Calvin finally grasped the truth, “So… You think the professor and his drug have nothing to do with it…”

“Yes! All of his experiments – All of the deaths! They were all pointless. Me and Layla got it from our Grandmother.” She turned and looked out the window. “Our Grandmother,” she said again softly.

“Are you sure?”

As shocking as it was, she knew in her bones that it was true. She nodded vehemently, “Yes.”

“Whoa.”

“Layla and Michael have to know about this. I want to go to see them right away.

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