Reclaim: Project Xol by Amabel Daniels

Author:Amabel Daniels [Daniels, Amabel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-11T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Cassidy

“Dead?” I shook my head. “Since when?”

“Since the lab was destroyed. She was killed at the same time as Scott and the rest of the team was.”

Staring at the phone, I tried to fit this news in. I didn’t doubt Zero. But I wasn’t convinced by whatever he’d dug up. “No.”

“I found her death certificate. I hadn’t looked as closely at the younger assistants in the lab. When you started asking for info, I focused on the actual professors and other colleagues Rosa and Scott would have had. Not anyone younger. There were a lot of people to weed through. And Tami wasn’t with the Project at first. She was visiting from another college and she was kinda assumed to be there.”

“She’s not dead,” I insisted. Rosa had mentioned a woman in our last phone call. A she. Hendrick explained to me that Tami was the remaining leader of this new Project. Or had been all along. He hadn’t been able to speak at length, but he was lucid and clear with what he’d shared.

“I have the death certificate right—”

“What does that matter?” Luke interrupted from the driver’s seat.

I glanced up at him and stared at his scowl as he continued. His sharp facial features were honed into a lethal and intelligent expression as he drove. “We know the Project has manipulated documents. Prison records. Federal papers.”

Tramer piped in too. “You said you found Ryan’s death certificate. Which was a fake.”

“I know. I know,” Zero replied. “But…it just made sense. No one’s heard of her. There’s nothing about a Tami Shaw anywhere.”

“She probably got a new name and identity,” Luke argued.

Which, I realized from firsthand experience with the IDs Tramer secured for us, wasn’t as hard as it might seem. Especially if she was involved with a corrupt team of multiple government entities.

“It… It just…”

I bit my lip at Zero’s hesitation to elaborate. “What, Z? What?”

“It just would have explained why Rosa adopted you.”

I clamped my teeth harder on my flesh at the sinking bomb of that angle.

“She must have because your parents were dead.”

I shook my head. “Or, my mom cared more about her messed-up goals for power instead of having a kid around.” Why else would someone carry on like she did after faking her death? No. I wasn’t going there. I wasn’t even going to think about considering the fact that Rosa had taken me because she might have felt she had to. If I could hang on to the glimmer of love I’d always assumed she held for me, I would. Rosa adopted me because she wanted me, dammit.

My fingers shook in the fist I’d made and Luke reached over to cover his hand over it.

“Okay.” Tramer cleared his throat. “Tami’s dead or alive. Either way, we’ve got directions from Hendrick and that was who Rosa and Dale directed her to. We’re sticking to the course of action. Antez. Money. I need to sleep more than a few hours before I’m ready to get some real goddamn answers to this mess.

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