The Hive by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9781525300608
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Published: 2019-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

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“I want a lawyer,” Rachel whispered.

She couldn’t be sure exactly what they were up to. She wasn’t formally under arrest, but it still felt as though she were. A lawyer seemed appropriate.

While his partner drove and kept an eye on the road, Agent Hernandez twisted around to peer back at her from the front seat. “What did you say?”

“I said I want a lawyer,” she repeated more forcefully.

He nodded, his lips pursed. “Are you sure? Lawyers are expensive. You don’t have much of a nest egg.”

“You looked at my bank records.” She said it without accusation or heat. It was just a fact.

“We looked at everything,” he told her.

“So,” Rachel snapped, “all of that stuff about how you have kids, too, and you feel for me — that was all just crap, I guess?”

Hernandez’s expression darkened and he glowered at her. “I do have kids. That’s why I’m doing this. So that they can grow up in a safe and orderly world.”

“A safe and orderly world where they get to hunt and kill other children,” she said. “How special for you.”

Hernandez sneered. “Watch your mouth, Professor McKinney. We’re still being nice.”

“This is nice? I hate to imagine what nasty looks like.”

He settled back into his seat, turning away from her. “You won’t have to imagine,” he promised.

*

They took her to the local police station but marched her in through the back door. She knew — vaguely — something of police booking procedures. Harlon had been arrested a couple of times early in their dating days, usually for defacing Confederate monuments. She knew that she should be processed with the desk sergeant, fingerprinted, face-scanned and photographed.

None of that happened.

Instead, they took her through a series of dark, empty corridors that wound like a maze in the bowels of the precinct. And for the first time, she began to fear. If they’d intended on merely arresting her and using her for leverage against Cassie, they would be following procedure. Instead, they were wending their way through a labyrinth, heading toward the minotaur, with no Ariadne in sight.

“Where are we going?” she demanded, fighting to keep a tremor out of her voice. These men only understood strength. They had no sympathy for damsels in distress.

“You’ll see,” Hernandez said.

Finally, they opened an obstinate old door and ushered her into a small room that stank of mold and rust. A broken mirror took up most of one wall, a chunk of missing glass allowing her to peer into the next room. An old, disused interrogation room, then.

There was a rickety table in the center of the room, lit by the overhead spasms of a single, unreliable light bulb. Hernandez’s partner, who hadn’t spoken a word, appeared in the doorway with a very sturdy chair. He placed it behind the table and guided Rachel into it with surprising gentleness.

They don’t want any bruises on me. No evidence. Does that mean they’re definitely going to let me go or that they want the body to be staged

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