Snakebit by Linsey Lanier

Author:Linsey Lanier [Lanier, Linsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller
ISBN: 9781941191408
Publisher: Felicity Books
Published: 2017-06-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

With Parker at her side Miranda marched down a long hall, following the endocrinologist past a door labeled “Donor Storage” to one with another sign reading “Cryopreservation.”

They stepped inside a wide white room, and the temperature dropped several degrees. Overhead stretched a broad tiled ceiling holding rows and rows of fluorescent lights. They were so bright Miranda thought she might get a tan from standing under them.

The perimeter was lined with what you’d expect in a lab. Long shiny metal tables with rolling stools tucked under them. On top of the tables were microscopes, computer screens, and those circular DNA analysis machines like the one Fry used at the Agency. But along the wall to her left stood something that made her, well, freeze.

A bank of specimen samples—little plastic cups with blue lids—all stored in tall units with glass doors that looked like the frozen section of the grocery store. There must have been over a hundred of them.

Dr. Xavier followed her gaze. “Those are specimens waiting for screening.”

“Screening?”

“Each one is tested for genetic diseases and washed to remove any toxins before use.”

“I see.”

“The specimen you’re looking for is in one of those tanks.” Xavier waved a hand toward the far wall.

There sat a cluster of uniform white containers, three rows deep. They were huge and shaped like oversized oxygen tanks. Each one had a big blue lid. For easy access, she supposed.

That was where they stored the stuff?

The doctor moved to a table and consulted a computer screen. After a moment he began typing.

“What are you doing?” Miranda asked.

“Searching for the records you want to see.” He frowned at the screen, pressed some more keys, then nodded. “Here it is. All the data on Dr. Clarence Boudreaux’s specimen.”

Miranda strolled around the table to have a look. She was glad Parker came with her to peer over her shoulder.

She read through the information as best she could. Hand written notes that had been scanned. Lists with check boxes. Pages with a lot of medical mumbo-jumbo, but the dates seemed correct.

Parker turned to Xavier. “How can you assure us this sample hasn’t been tampered with?”

Xavier pointed to the screen. “It’s right there. The measurements, the temperature, the procedures performed. It’s exactly as it was when Dr. Boudreaux deposited it.”

Miranda’s lips went back and forth. She glanced at Parker. Reading her mind, he gave her a nod.

“You don’t mind if I call in my team to confirm these numbers, do you?”

With a grunt, Xavier threw up his hands. “Do what you will. It seems I have little say over it anymore.”

Taking out her cell, Miranda stepped over to the corner and put in a call to Becker.

Half an hour later Becker and Fry were in the Cryopreservation lab working away, while Xavier paced around in a corner. Becker was on the computer, Fry was at the vat containing Dr. Boudreaux’s “donation.” Miranda had been proud when he insisted Xavier open it.

The doctor called in two assistants to remove the lid and carefully lift a row of aluminum bricks from the liquid nitrogen solution.

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