The Hungry 4: Rise of the Triad (The Sheriff Penny Miller Series) by Booth Steven & Shannon Harry

Author:Booth, Steven & Shannon, Harry [Booth, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Genius Book Publishing
Published: 2013-09-11T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

CRYSTAL PALACE

“Speak your mind, Captain Sheppard.”

“I don’t even know where to start, Dr. Rubenstein.”

“At the beginning, one would suppose.”

“First you continue research on the Enhanced Bioweapons program without proper authorization, and then you promise Sheriff Miller that the research will stop in five days. That’s absurd. What the hell were you thinking? Our orders were unambiguous, and you know that. All work on the Enhanced Bioweapons program was to stop immediately and then to remain suspended indefinitely.”

“Please, call me Arthur. I shall call you Karl. We are colleagues now, after all. I’m surprised you would think I would do something like that.” Rubenstein smiled broadly. “I read those orders, too, Karl. The term indefinitely did not appear in the text. The phrase I believe you are looking for is, until progress is made toward a vaccine or cure. If you’re not making any progress, you should report that.”

“How was I going to move forward without Sheriff Miller? Penny is the first human to have experienced both the zombie virus and the accelerant and survived. You were supposed to turn her over directly to me, damn it. You had absolutely no right to jeopardize my research by conducting experiments on my subjects.”

“Here we are, splitting hairs and defining terms again. You should have become an attorney, Karl. All right, then let’s be precise, shall we? I have received a mandate from Mountain Home. Due to my new assignment, they are now technically my subjects, not yours.”

“You… you have a mandate? You son of a bitch! Whose cock did you have to suck to get that?”

“You’re projecting your own sexual preferences on me, Karl. I’m not insulted by that, I’m merely amused.”

“Fuck you.”

“And he does it again, Herr Freud. As it turned out, I didn’t need to suck anything. All I had to do was wait for a bit and then file a few confidential observations. When you fell behind schedule, the mandate was given to me.”

“I was told…”

“Calm down. Stop pacing around, Karl. You’re making us both dizzy. As it turns out, I don’t care what you were told. The situation has changed. The fact is, I do have the mandate, and my request for an expanded—and by that, I mean virtually unlimited—emergency budget and a heavier personnel allocation is already in the works.”

Sheppard stopped moving. He glared. “I’m still in charge until I’m notified.”

“You have five days.”

“To complete this series of experiments? You can’t be serious, Arthur!”

“I’m a serious as the plague itself, Karl. Wrap things up. You are finished.”

“Five days.”

“Is there an echo in this office? Look, it appears you have your work cut out for you, doesn’t it? I’ll let you get back to it. You know the way out.”

“You’ll never get away with this.”

“I already have.”

“You smug bastard, your ambition may very well end up destroying what’s left of the world.”

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