The Facility by Eliza Green

Author:Eliza Green [Green, Eliza]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eliza Green Books
Published: 2016-11-28T22:00:00+00:00

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In the communal area, they set up a darts tournament. Anya admitted to never playing before, so she teamed up with Dom to make it fair. They lost three games and won three before the novelty wore off.

‘I need to get out of here,’ said Sheila, shaking out her hands. ‘I can’t stand how this place closes in on me.’

‘The exit door is locked,’ said Anya.

‘I’ll come with you, see if I can figure out the screen with the map,’ said Frank. ‘Maybe we should try communicating with someone. The screen is the only thing here that might carry a signal.’

Lucas seemed up for it, but not Lilly. She settled into a beanbag at the front of the room and put on a set of headphones.

Sheila smiled at Dom. ‘While I’m gone, don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.’

Dom’s jaw tightened as he glared at her.

With the others gone, Anya felt nervous at the thought of being alone with Dom. It had been too long since they’d spoken properly. She didn’t know where to begin.

She flopped into one of the beanbags at the back of the room. Lilly who looked ahead, bobbed her head in time to the music. Dom pulled up a beanbag beside Anya’s and sat on it.

He fiddled with the drawstrings on his hoodie. The tension between them cut the air like a knife. Something had changed. Maybe she had. Since Dom had injected her with something following the shock, her thoughts had become crystal clear. Now, she paid better attention to things. Before, she wouldn’t have bothered.

‘So,’ she said, staring down at her lap. ‘What was life like on the second floor?’

‘Exhausting.’ Dom gave a short laugh. ‘If you can’t already tell from the dark circles under my eyes.’

She glanced at his paler-than-normal skin. At least he was more alert than he’d been a few hours ago.

He stared at a spot on the floor. ‘We were on call day and night. Things were busy enough on the higher floors. Sometimes I didn’t sleep at all.’ He flashed a familiar grin that made her heart flutter. ‘But, hey, I found out where all the coffee mugs came from.’

Mugs that would fall from above and shatter into pieces on the atrium floor.

The more they talked, the more the tension eased. Anya settled into the beanbag.

‘What were the upper floors like?’

‘We weren’t allowed to see them. I guess they didn’t want us gaining any advantage. So we had to treat people in private rooms.’

Anya frowned.

‘There are medical prefabs on the fourth floor in Tower A. None of us had been on the floor before, so they brought the injured to us there. The first floor was different. We’d all seen it. We all knew what was going on.’ He paused and looked around the room. ‘I never treated anyone on third.’

‘Maybe there’s no need for first-aiders here.’

‘Maybe.’

His eyes pressed into every corner of the room before settling on Anya. He watched her for a quiet moment before his gaze drifted to her mouth, staying there a moment too long.

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