Over Shared by Allyson Lindt

Author:Allyson Lindt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Acelette Press
Published: 2020-02-11T16:00:00+00:00

ADAM DROPPED MAX OFF at her room with a peck on the cheek and a friendly smile. “I’m glad we had a chance to talk. You’re not angry with me, are you?”

“Of course not.” She was too terrified to be angry. Especially after he confessed the only reason he gave her the pills in the shelter was because he hoped Taylor would take them—had ordered a Synth to influence Taylor to take them when he grew tired of the chase.

“I’ll see you in the morning, then,” Adam said.

The moment she closed the door between them, she started packing her and Taylor’s bags. Most of their belongings were hidden under fake panels in the car, so it didn’t take long.

She pulled out a pen and a notebook she typically reserved for bored doodling in shelters. Had Adam second-guessed her moves since he found her because she was predictable, or was it because of her handheld? Doing things the old-fashioned way eliminated one of those circumstances. Timing was critical, and getting out of here was everything.

Taylor wasn’t infected, because there was no disease. Repeating those words pushed her forward. She scribbled a plan on paper, to organize her thoughts—next steps, precautions, and fail-safes.

The list wasn’t as long in the fail-safe department as she’d like, but time was up. Once she’d organized her thoughts enough to cement them in her mind, she tore out the page, along with the next ten, and burned them in the bathroom sink. The action was a little super-secret spy, but apparently she hadn’t been enough of that before.

She grabbed her handheld, wiped the memory within seconds, and powered it down again. To her relief, it stayed off. Not that it would matter in about two minutes. She repeated the process with her phone and Taylor’s. He wouldn’t be calling her, and anyone else could wait.

Their phones went in the trash in the hallway, batteries in different bins on different floors. It would take a small chunk out of their money to replace them, but once she blew the cover off P-72, she might be able to get OSF to help them at a reduced rate. No quarantine meant no extra money, right? Which meant a couple extra weeks to save the cash to pay OSF’s fees.

It was a big risk, the first of too many in Max’s plan, but also the one she was most comfortable with.

She made her way to the front lobby. Every time she caught a movement out of the corner of her eye, her heart leaped. She half-expected Adam to be waiting somewhere, watching. She fully-expected him to have access to hotel cameras, but that was fine. As long as he only saw snippets of what she was doing, he’d think she was being cautious or working.

A man and a woman in pressed professional suits sat in one corner of the lobby, talking about something, their heads bowed together. The only other person present was the girl at the registration desk. She was absorbed in something Max couldn’t see.

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