Madelyn's Mistake by Hamill Ike

Author:Hamill, Ike [Hamill, Ike]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Publisher: www.ikehamill.com
Published: 2016-03-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

{Moving}

CALEB KNOCKED WITH HIS left hand. Even that felt strange.

“Come,” Ryan said.

Caleb kept his right hand in his pocket and pushed through the door. The office was dim. Only one light on the desk showed him his commander, leaning back in his chair. The man’s glasses were on the desk. Caleb glanced at the dark display screens on the walls and guessed that they had all been lit a second before.

“Have a seat,” Ryan said. “What happened to your arm?”

Caleb suppressed a smile. He should have known that there was no way to fool Ryan.

“Accident at the lab. It has been treated,” Caleb said.

Ryan pulled himself up to the desk and rested his elbows. Caleb could almost sense the man’s deduction. Ryan knew that Caleb wouldn’t be there to present a status report. They both knew the importance of silence on the status.

“You need something you can’t procure for yourself,” Ryan said. It wasn’t a question.

Caleb nodded. “I need a lab in the safe harbor and a window of time with no observers to move there.”

Ryan nodded.

“Two to three in the morning. Tonight. There’s a secured area in the basement of Building Three. The building sits on the edge of the safe harbor. It’s marked as a Q-battery breach hazard, so you won’t have any visitors. It has power and plumbing.”

Caleb was silenced by shock. He had prepared a short list of things they would need. It seemed that Ryan had anticipated it all.

“What else?” Ryan asked.

“I suppose that’s everything,” Caleb said. Ryan studied him as he sat there. His brain was still trying to catch up. If Ryan had predicted that Caleb’s team would make a breakthrough and need to move to the safe harbor, what else had he prepared for? Did Ryan have a contingency for Caleb’s failure? Or was Caleb the contingency? Caleb struggled to figure out what this all meant.

“Do you have something else you need to talk to me about?” Ryan asked.

“No, I suppose not,” Caleb said. He started to push to his feet and his right hand brushed hard against the inside of his jacket pocket. As far as he knew, he did a decent job of hiding the pain from his face.

Caleb put his left hand on the doorknob before he stopped and turned.

“We’re going to succeed, sir,” Caleb said. He broke one of Ryan’s rules—nobody was ever supposed to call him “sir,” but in this case, it seemed appropriate. “If you’re planning another effort to contain the Hunters, you’ll only be hampering our efforts.”

“Focus on your job,” Ryan said.

Caleb nodded.

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