Sabin, A Seven Novel by A.M. Hargrove

Author:A.M. Hargrove [Hargrove, A.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Sci-Fi Romance
Publisher: AM Hargrove LLC
Published: 2015-10-29T06:00:00+00:00

A lab experiment. A bloody lab experiment. I’m getting ready to stick my fucking neck in a noose and she thinks she’s my lab experiment. What the … why did I ever claim her? I should never have listened to Rafe. That cocksucker is going to pay for this. I’m going to …

“Sabin, you need to get to the main level by the rear supply entrance.” Rafe’s voice comes to me.

“What now?” I huff.

“It’s Serena. Graylyn found her. She was lying on the floor, unconscious.”

Part of me wants to tell him to handle my lab experiment, but the way my gut clenches when he says those words, I know I can’t stay here and do nothing. “On my way.”

By the time I arrive, Serena is sitting up and sipping some water. Her arms are covered in deep, fire-red scratches. Her cheeks look like she’s been in the sun for hours.

“What the hell happened?” I thunder.

Serena jerks at my voice. Graylyn, who is used to me, says in a calm tone, “I found her unconscious, L’han.”

“I already know that. Why are her arms so scratched and her face so red?”

“I got locked out of the house and tried to find a way inside.” Serena’s voice is thready and tremulous. This is my fault.

Practically shoving Graylyn out of the way to get to her, I bend down to scoop Serena up, but she slaps my hands away.

“Get away from me you asshole. You …” and she loses steam.

I don’t give her another chance to speak, but quickly carry her to my room, shouting to Graylyn to bring up some food.

“No. No food. I don’t feel well,” Serena rasps.

“What scratched you?”

“Those stupid bushes I crawled through.” She scratches her arms. “You’re a jerk, you know? You tell me to leave and I did, but I got locked out. I know nothing about this place. I tried to knock on the windows but nobody heard. Did you know when you knock on your windows it doesn’t make any sound?” She rubs her neck and scratches her arms again. Her pupils contract and expand as she tries to focus and she sounds terrible.

Bloody fuck. Those damned hedges my security team insisted on planting have poisoned her. Of course anyone here would know that, but Serena … how could she? What the fuck was I thinking, sending her away like that?

As soon as I get her on the bed, I walk to the small panel on the wall near my bed and tap it. A voice immediately answers. “L’han, what is it you need?” The simulated intellect will handle this.

“Protocol for treatment of ibitsit exposure in the human species needs to be instituted.”

“L’han, we will assist immediately.”

Minutes later a simulated intellect mobile unit appears. It assesses Serena.

“What is that thing?” The words are thick on her tongue.

“Something that’s going to save your life,” I tell her.

“Save my life?”

“Yes. Those hedges poisoned you, Serena.”

“I what?” Her words are already slurred. If treatment is not soon initiated, her pharynx and larynx would become paralyzed and her lungs would follow.

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