Terminal Regression by Mallory Hill

Author:Mallory Hill [Hill, Mallory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781611882476
Publisher: Prolific Works
Published: 2020-03-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

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I needed to see Grant, so it was perfect that he called me in that morning. I expected Mimi to be there too, but he was alone.

“I wanted to thank you,” he said, looking better than he ever had. He seemed healthier maybe, brighter. And I certainly knew why.

“There’s no need,” I said, ready to get to my thing but trying to be polite.

“Whatever you said to her, you got through to her. For the first time in almost two years, she looks at me like I’m me. I have my wife back because of you.”

I shrugged. “I think it was just a matter of time. You guys have something amazing. I have no doubt you’d have found a way back to each other eventually.”

There were still traces of that energy floating around the office.

“Maybe. The thing is, Mimi shouldn’t have died. I still took everything from her, and I need to make up for that.”

“Great,” I said, seizing my opportunity. “So you’re going to help me. I’m developing a plan to bust out of here.”

He stared at me, no doubt thinking I’d lost it again.

“Seriously?”

“Yes. So you’re going to give me tunnel information. Schedules, surveillance, things like that. Can you do that?”

He held his hand up. “Let’s go back for a second. You want to go back to Terminal A?”

“That’s the idea. We need a change. We need to crack that wall and be alive again. I know the farm is good for your health or whatever, but there are plenty of gardens back home. And if we’re really successful, the worlds will unite and you can have the farm while Mimi has her lab.”

He nodded, humoring me. “Right. And if by chance we’re not successful?”

“I take the blame, and your life goes on unchanged.” He couldn’t lose. I was handing him the only possible opportunity to get his life back, to give Mimi everything he’d taken from her. How did he not see it?

“You’d do that?” he asked. “You understand it means putting your life on the line? I’m sure breaking the system comes with some pretty severe consequences. Things have been looking up for you. You’d throw all that away to make a point?”

I took a breath, determined not to get emotional. “Grant, Will works at the plant. He gets electrocuted every other day to the point where he can’t function on his own. It’s killing him, and he knows it. You once had three months to live. You know what it’s like when you’re about to die but you just have to let it happen. Do you honestly want that to happen to Will? Do you want me to suffer like Mimi did? Grant, we can stop this. We can fix it. No one ever has to go through this again.” I’d held together pretty well, but I was all but pleading with him.

I watched him consider it. He had to know I was right. Finally, he nodded. “I guess I owe you. I can get you anything you need on the tunnel.

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