The Judas Contact (Boomers Book 1) by Heather Long

Author:Heather Long [Long, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: OmniLit / All Romance eBooks, LLC
Published: 2016-07-31T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

“How is Garrett?” Simon leaned back in his chair. Nothing seemed to be running according to plan. They were divided on how to proceed. Michael wanted the tests stopped. Rex wanted them to push further, but Drake reserved his opinion until Garrett could be questioned. Shut down by a verbal command, Garrett was still unconscious. Rex had joined Michael and Rory in Montauk and traveled to the house. An unconscious Garrett couldn’t control the toxins in his body, but Rex could shift his own molecules and become impenetrable to the illness.

“He’s sleeping.” Rex’s drawl offered a familiar comfort. “According to the doc, his vitals are normal, his breathing regular. She said if it worked as it did in her dogs,” he said the last with the hint of a snicker, “he’ll probably sleep for the next ten to twelve and wake up normal. He’ll also have his chip reset.”

“That’s a big if. She’s also counting on the idea that our chips were mapped from her original designs.” He couldn’t fault the theory. They’d chosen Ilsa Blaine because her work seemed to most closely replicate what they knew about the chips. Rory vouched for her, but it was Garrett’s support of the doctor that interested Simon most. Despite a slower progression, their poisoner seemed to be gaining the same deeply protective instinct over Ilsa that Michael had for Rory.

Which could mean borrowing trouble if Simon was forced to mindwipe the scientist. They’d debated that, prior to Rory’s meeting, and again when Garrett volunteered to take her to the Long Island house for research. If she couldn’t be trusted, Simon could sift her memories out, erase her contact with and knowledge of them, and then release her. But that’s probably not an option anymore.

“Yeah, but I looked at the research. She walked me through it and talked me into an FMRI of my own. She also wants to do a couple of scans. My chip, from the initial look she took, is different from Garrett’s. It may be that all our chips are different—” Ilsa’s voice interrupted him.

“Tell him whatever technology they used relied on DNA. It’s how they circumvented your systems from rejecting them.”

“Put me on speaker, Rex.” And next time tell me when she is right there. The last he sent as a mental order. The shifter snickered again. Rex took things too lightly sometimes—which wasn’t a fair assessment. Unlike the rest of the team, Rex left someone, two someones behind in the future they were trying to stop from occurring. His blasé attitude and good humor were both in self-defense.

“You’re on speaker,” Rex confirmed, although the hollow echo over the phone line told him that.

“Thank you. You were saying, Doctor Blaine?”

“From what I can tell from Garrett’s chip and the brief look I got at Rex’s, they used DNA to prevent rejection and organic circuitry so the chips would stay in place. That makes sense considering, by my estimation, they were implanted some sixty odd years ago in your biological history.

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