Mindsurge (Mindspeak Book 3) by Heather Sunseri

Author:Heather Sunseri [Sunseri, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sun Publishing
Published: 2014-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Jack and Coach leaned over an oversized map spread out on the conference table in my office. Seth typed on a laptop at my desk.

Alyson stopped me with a light touch to my arm when I entered. “How’s your friend?”

I looked down at her hand, then back up at her face. “Alive.” I closed my eyes, immediately regretting my shortness with her. “I’m sorry. She’s got a nasty headache. And she’s scared. She doesn’t remember much right now.” She didn’t even remember what she and Jonas had been doing before someone cracked her on the head.

Jack raised his eyes from the map he was poring over. The hardness in his jaw said everything. It was bad. All indications pointed to Jonas being abducted.

I walked closer. They were examining some islands off the west coast of the United States. “What are you looking at?” It wasn’t Hawaii. It was too far south.

“This was on the ground next to some blood spatters over there.” Jack handed me a crumpled-up piece of paper as he pointed to some spots on the carpet.

“And the sea will tell.” I looked from Jack to Coach. “What does it mean?”

“It’s a book,” Jack said.

“Jonas wrote down the name of a book just before he was taken?” I didn’t understand.

“And the Sea Will Tell is a true-crime novel about the Sea Wind Murders, a double murder from the 1970s,” Coach explained. “They happened on an atoll south of Hawaii called Palmyra Atoll.”

“Palmyra,” I said to myself. “Myra.” I looked at Jack, who was clearly already a step ahead of me. Jonas had told us while in the gorge that Sandra had ordered the incubators delivered to Myra, which could be short for Palmyra. “You think this is where Sandra located the new lab.”

“It makes sense.” Jack shrugged.

“What kind of island is this? Is it part of Hawaii? Meaning, is it part of the United States? Is it protected by our government?”

Seth looked up from the computer. “It’s not governed by Hawaii. It’s an unorganized incorporated territory of the United States. So technically it is governed under our Constitution.”

“How about non-technically?” I asked.

Seth bowed his head toward the computer again. “A portion of the atoll is owned by the Nature Conservancy. The rest by the federal government. According to the information I’ve found, no one is allowed to travel to Palmyra Atoll without prior approval from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department and from the Nature Conservancy.”

“So if Sandra has built a lab there and is running a controversial scientific operation, she’s gotten approval from the federal government?”

“More likely, she doesn’t care what laws she’s breaking,” Seth answered. “However, yes, she does appear to have the protection of the IIA.”

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Even though it was three in the morning when we got to my room, Jack insisted I take a hot shower. Thought it might relax me. Little did he know, I did my best thinking in the shower. The heat soothed my tense muscles, but the steam went straight to my head as I thought about what someone would have to do to get the upper hand on Jonas.

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