Riptide Atlas Link Series 3 by Jessica Gunn

Author:Jessica Gunn [Gunn, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

22

Trevor

Interrogating the TruGates team wasn’t going well. In fact, we’d barely started before Captain Marks requested Sophia’s presence and General Holt gave her the go-ahead. Now, we sat with Weyland on one side of a two-way mirror waiting for the go-ahead to interrogate Eric, Josh, and Mara.

“He’s the reason all of this is happening,” Sophia growled at Weyland. “Suddenly you’re a soldier like us, suddenly you’re here after disappearing with the very people you said you left. Then TruGates shows up here with White City as back up?” Her fingers dug into the top of the chair in front of her, leaving indents in the metal underneath. “I don’t believe you for a second.”

“Thing is,” Weyland said, “this would have happened either way.”

Sophia lunged for Weyland, but Major Pike yanked her back. “Stand down.”

She reluctantly obeyed, standing back and straightening her uniform jacket. Weyland stared back at her, ready to defend himself if she changed her mind. Which she might. Sophia had always been better tempered than Chelsea, but they’d both been cut from the same super soldier cloth. As had Weyland.

Sophia’s display of uncharacteristic hot-headedness only served to support my hypotheses about Chelsea: her increasingly violent reactions to being attacked or insulted weren’t her fault. I’d only noticed the change in Chelsea because I’d known her as her powers had emerged. Sophia had always been a calm, collected person, loyal and powerful and protective. Never aggressive like this.

“It started with TruGates, with Chelsea joining you,” Sophia argued.

I clamped my mouth shut. Chelsea had only joined them to figure out what the Lemurians were doing. If she’d known the repercussions of doing so, if she’d known what this would turn into, I doubted she’d make the same decision twice.

“General Allen hunted Atlantean super soldiers long before Chelsea joined,” Weyland argued. “That’s how he found me. It’s not like I’d heard of them from a friend of a friend. They sought me out and asked me to sign up.” He paused, eyes tightening. “It makes sense now, actually.”

“You think this was the plan all along?” Captain Marks asked from where he stood in the corner.

Weyland shook his head. “There’s no way to know for sure, sir. I think General Allen, as an agent for the White City, had planned to find a super soldier to use against the Atlanteans all along, one he thought he could control. I figured out I had abilities sometime before joining SeaSat5, but I didn’t think anything of it, really, until Chelsea boarded. If Dave figured it out and passed that info on to the White City, it’s possible that General Allen has known what I am this whole time. If that’s true, then yes, I think his plan was to use me to get to SeaSat5.”

“He knows it’s a Link Piece,” I said, although it was obvious. Everyone but us seemed to have figured it out a long time ago.

Nodding, Weyland said, “Yes. That’s why when Chelsea showed up, he let me believe it was me who’d persuaded her to join TruGates.

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