Progenitor by Cassandra Chandler

Author:Cassandra Chandler [Chandler, Cassandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cassandra Chandler

Chapter Thirteen

“It worked.” Brock looked over at his dad and laughed. “It worked!”

“Looks like it,” Dad said.

They watched the monitor above Brock’s bed as Porter helped Meg to her feet and then out of the Boom Room. Dexter and Vaughn lingered for a few moments, arguing from the look of it. Dexter pointed at the ground, and Vaughn set down the collar.

As soon as Vaughn stood up, Dexter grabbed his arm and started leading him from the room. Vaughn seemed to be struggling, craning his neck over his shoulder to keep looking at the collar, but then Dexter leaned in and said something that made Vaughn shrink away from him. He didn’t tug against Dexter’s hold as they left the room.

“What was that all about, I wonder?” Brock asked.

“Your guess is better than mine. I’m honestly at a loss to explain any of the choices you boys are making right now.”

Dad tapped a few command buttons on Brock’s bed and the monitor went dark. He sat down next to Brock and stared at him with the same bright blue eyes that Tessa used to have—before they turned gold when she became a werewolf.

“Dexter and Porter in the same room as a bomb,” Dad said. “I would think after dying for the first time, they’d be even more cautious than before, not pulling a stunt like that.”

“It was his choice.”

“Their,” Dad said.

To him, they would always be “Dexter” and “Porter”. Just like all of the other pairs were two people in his mind. Dad wanted each and every one of his sons to be counted, each life weighed individually.

It was different for Brock. He’d interacted with each replicant consciousness too often in the landscape of his mind. But he had a feeling those interactions were going to be different in the time he had left.

“You seriously want me to believe that you didn’t have anything to do with what just happened upstairs?” Dad said.

“Come on, Dad.”

“No, you listen to me, son. I’m glad Meg got that collar off. God knows, she’s suffered enough from it. And I’m glad we’ve taken a step to rid our family of further harm from that man Roy.”

Dad’s shoulders were slumped, and dark circles shadowed his eyes. As exhausted as he must be, he still spoke fiercely when he went on. “Your brothers would do anything for you. Anything. So you tell me why all of a sudden Dexter and Porter are risking a permanent end to their lives for a woman we’re pretty damned sure was sent here to kill you.”

“I’m telling you, it was his idea,” Brock said.

“Brock isn’t lying.”

Dad and Brock both turned to the doorway. Dexter was standing just outside the room.

“Dexter,” Dad said. “Come on in.”

Dexter stepped inside, but didn’t come closer than the foot of Brock’s bed.

“Thank you for keeping your word,” Dexter said.

“What word?” Dad looked back and forth between them.

“We told Brock that we would take care of Meg and her collar problem, as long as Brock left

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