Reclaiming Shilo Snow by Mary Weber

Author:Mary Weber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2018-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

16

INOLA

The hovercar was still there—two lanes to the right, seven lengths back. Blue, nondescript, the same that’d been there since she’d left the FanFights twenty minutes ago. Different from her security team’s, but still going the same speed and same direction. Maybe it was a coincidence. Maybe not.

Inola took her black hair down from its bun and swiped back to the video on her handscreen. The one she’d secretly recorded in Ms. Gaines’s Corp 30 office when she’d gone to confront her last night. Proving once again her intuition was correct.

“I had to, Inola,” Ms. Gaines said. “The other Corps were getting too close. What would they have done had they discovered what we were doing with their kids? With our kids? That we were jacking the games? Corp 24’s Altered would’ve ruined everything.”

Inola’s voice broke in. “So you had them killed, along with my son?”

“They were going to expose us! All that work we’ve put into this company to help people—to make them better!” Gaines was practically foaming at the mouth. “It would’ve been thrown away.”

Inola looked out the window at the sunset dousing the buildings in pink and gold. Artistic shades rippling off the mirrored skyscrapers and in the sunglasses of myriad passersby. She peered in the rearview mirror again. The hovercar far behind them moved into the lane as soon as Jerrad did.

“I see it, madam,” he said, without moving his gaze from the highway. The next moment the car slowed and edged off onto a side street and Inola exhaled. She was just being paranoid.

“I took care of it, Inola. Don’t you see?” The vid on her screen kept playing. “We had to delete the evidence! If the Delonese knew we’d let their secret escape, they’d be called into question too. It could rock the entire political system, and people would’ve lost faith in them and us. If you’d kept your daughter under better control—”

Inola clicked it off.

If she’d kept her daughter under better control . . .

How many times had that been an issue through the years? “Sofi, don’t make the Corp look bad.” “Sofi, stay in boarding school with Shilo until you’ve learned what real life is.”

She shook her head. If Sofi was good at anything, it was refusing to be controlled. And while that may have infuriated Inola as a parent, she was grateful for it now. Tick, tick, tick . . .

Inola peered down to check her handscreen. She hadn’t shut it off since the message had come through, and the blinking text hadn’t disappeared this time.

If you want to help your kids, head for the black markets.

Followed by her three: What do you want?

What do you want?

Why are you doing this?

Her stomach knotted and her breathing grew harder. Their message didn’t even make sense. What did they know about Sofi and Shilo?

Likely nothing. Which was why the whole thing had gotten under her skin. Her team still hadn’t cracked the sender, but they were close.

Her neck stiffened as she checked behind them again through the hovercar’s rear window.

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