The Registration Rewritten by Madison Lawson

Author:Madison Lawson [Lawson, Madison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CamCat Publishing

CHAPTER 24

LYNELL

TUESDAY MORNING

Without any leads, Lynell and Daniel are practically forced to go along with Sutton’s plan of doing nothing and playing the part of puppets on strings. The lack of action fills her with a new type of adrenaline somehow more uncomfortable than the immediate fear of death when she was running from Eric. She walks circles in the living room and kitchen until her bare feet hurt.

“Alright, that’s it.” Daniel jumps off the counter where he’d been sitting, watching her pace.

Lynell stops walking. “What?”

“We’re going to talk to those tech siblings. The Fields.”

“The Meadows?”

“Whatever,” he says, retrieving a pair of shoes for them both.

“But Sutton⁠—”

“He said not to do anything about Anna or the vote. He didn’t say not to do anything at all. You still have a job.”

“I’m waiting for Ramsey to get back from his meeting.”

“Well, we can still be productive while you wait. You said it yourself—you can’t use the code until you know how to use it.”

She grins and kisses his cheek before taking the shoes. “You’re brilliant.”

“I try,” he says.

Lynell calls the office in advance and, at first, the receptionist tells her the soonest she can schedule a meeting with both Owen and Summer Meadows is June third. But the Meadows’ availability suddenly allowed for a meeting in an hour after the receptionist realized who exactly had called.

Marveling at the power of a name, Lynell asks Hayes to drive them, and he insists on bringing two other guards. As they pull up, her system finally filling with a sensation other than dread, she notes that the office building is more like a tower with thirty-two floors. It’s covered in windows that reflect the blinding sun, making Lynell wish she’d put on sunscreen.

With Hayes in front and the two guards following, Lynell and Daniel head inside and take the elevator to the fifteenth floor. They ride up in silence and step out into a lobby brightly lit by sunlight shining through tall windows. Hanging from the ceilings are gardens of vines and moss clinging to long, thin, rectangle metal baskets that look like square bird feeder cages. A wooden bench is built into one wall, and the other has geometric lights embedded in the deeply grained wood. In the middle of the room is a circular desk, inside of which sits a young woman around Lynell’s age, a tiny headphone visible in one ear, the other covered by a swoop of pink hair.

“Hello, how may I help you?” she asks. Then her eyes widen and she sits straighter. “Mrs. Elysian. Welcome. Mr. and Ms. Meadows are ready for you in the first room on the left.”

Lynell smiles and nods. “Thank you.”

The guards, Hayes included, stay stationed in the hallway while Lynell and Daniel enter the office. It isn’t as large as Lynell expected. There’s a bookshelf on one side, a desk on the other, and a coffee table between two couches in the center, one of which is occupied by two nearly identical people.

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