Mind Games by Laura K. Curtis

Author:Laura K. Curtis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: River Hills Press
Published: 2017-07-07T15:01:42+00:00

Chapter 9

EVERY DAY, JANE interviewed men and watched them train in the morning, while spending her afternoons with the lab rats. When Bryan would ask about sending the group on a mission, she used any excuse to declare them emotionally or physically unfit for the stress.

She’d learned fairly quickly that documentation was the weakest area for the men in the lab. They preferred to write down the details of each test after they’d performed it rather than before. So one time she’d repeated the wrong numbers back to one guy who’d asked her to look at his results, and, sure enough, those were the numbers he wrote down. When he tried replicating the results, he couldn’t make the experiment work. In another instance, she knocked most of a setup off the table with an elbow. Bryan had screamed about that one, but since the chemicals had yet to be mixed at the time, he let it go. Unfortunately, that one had been too easy to reconstruct, and since then Bryan had been watching her more closely.

Every morning, Alvaro appeared at the breakfast table flanked by a silent guard. Although his bandage was clean and he appeared well treated, he was becoming more and more sullen, and Jane didn’t know how to help him.

Twice, Dani had asked her about Eric, and each time Jane’s prevarications weighed on her. She was a bad friend. She should be trying to bolster Dani’s hopes rather than doubting her strength. But under pressure Dani might break and tell Bryan that Eric knew who he was. Or she might trade the information for her brother’s freedom, especially if Bryan took it in his head to threaten the boy further. All she dared ask of Dani—conversing via the pad and pens delivered to their room the second afternoon—was to be on the lookout for any information they could use to get themselves out of trouble, any secret passages in the house or ways off the grounds.

And truth be told, if she allowed herself to think too hard, her own hopes of rescue slipped away. What if she never got out of here? What would happen to her once she no longer had any value to these men as a scientist? They were damned close to finding their magic supersoldier regimen. A better scientist, a more imaginative crew of researchers would have put the pieces together already and would have begun a fourth group with gene doping and deep hypnosis.

She figured she had a month at the outside before one of the researchers put together the various pieces of the formula to come up with a pill, hypnotherapy, and electroshock combination that worked. It would require constant monitoring, not what they wanted for a long-term solution, but enough to get a foothold. In a month, they’d have trained a group and be sending them on their first mission. And once they came back from that mission, once the blood and violence didn’t break them, her life was over.

Tuesday evening, the older man who’d been at dinner the first night showed up again with his entourage.

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