Short-Circuit His Soul (Microchips and Purity Book 2) by Alana Ankh

Author:Alana Ankh [Ankh, Alana]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2015-04-13T04:00:00+00:00

THEY TOOK to him to a nondescript warehouse that seemed torn from every briefing he’d ever had about being taken captive by enemy troops. Logan had struggled, and he had taken out a good number of the mercenaries. But he’d been heavily outgunned and even more heavily outnumbered, so he’d resigned himself to the captivity, at least for the moment.

He immediately started making plans to escape, but putting those ideas into practice would have been easier if the first thing they did wasn’t to drug him out of his wits. For a while, he wasn’t even conscious, and he only recovered when they were already at the damn warehouse, so he didn’t even know where he was.

After that, faceless technicians stepped in. They strapped him to a machine and pinned sensors to him, and Logan struggled once more, because he knew what those sensors did. He’d worked with something similar while designing the VR, and hell no, they could torture him as much as they wanted, but they were not getting a free pass into his mind.

One moment, he lay there, strapped to the machine and attempting to fight it with all his might, and the next, he was free. The weight of the phaser in his hand felt comforting. He remembered he had a mission to do, something very important he’d come here for.

His vision cleared and Abraham Zion stood in front of him, next to a computer console. “Back away from the console now.” Logan steadied his phaser and aimed it at the fugitive who’d given them more trouble than he was worth. “Come quietly, and we can still find a nonviolent way to deal with your imprisonment.”

Abraham turned slowly and faced Logan, not seeming in the least bit intimidated. “Is that right? Somehow I don’t particularly believe your reassurances.”

Julian took a step forward. It was against Logan’s good judgment, since he would have preferred it if Julian hadn’t been there at all. However, Julian was the one who’d tracked Abraham down to begin with, and he wasn’t a child any longer. In some ways, he was better at handing politicians than Logan and even Raze, mostly because three-quarters of them deemed him harmless.

“I know you and Uriel haven’t always seen eye to eye,” Julian said softly, “but he has only ever attempted to do what was best for Eden—and that includes you.”

Abraham burst into laughter. “Do you truly believe that? My God, you do. You don’t even know who the man you support truly is.”

Julian blinked in surprise, and a cold shiver swept over Logan’s spine. Abraham continued, undeterred. “I’ve never made that mistake. I always knew your Uriel was a monster.” He smirked, his eyes glinting with a maniacal light. “Now the whole world will know it too.”

“No….” Raze gasped. “What have you done?”

“I believe you already know, Mr. Hartman,” Abraham said. “Uriel was the virus, and now everyone will see that.”

Behind him, the console flared to life, depicting an image of Uriel’s DNA with the words Project Uriel written above it.

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