The Singularity - Heretic: A Sci-Fi Thriller (The Singularity Series Book 1) by David Beers

Author:David Beers [Beers, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-11-15T22:00:00+00:00

April didn't wake up because April didn't fall back asleep. She thought of nothing else, because she literally could not make her brain move away from the conversation Leon brought to her. When he rose from bed, she kept her eyes closed. She didn't have anything else to say to him, didn't know what to say. The man she had married wasn't the man rising. She came to that conclusion over the last few sleepless hours. The man standing naked in front of her, going through their closet, was someone different entirely. A stranger, really. How many times had this stranger lay on top of her, thrusting inside of her, without her knowing who he really was? How many days had they shared dinner together, without her having any idea who sat across the table?

The thought terrified her as much as what he had said to her last night.

We're not going to get him killed either.

We're not going to get Caesar killed.

Instead, we'll kill ourselves for him.

That's what he really said. The first, the original thought was just backing in to the final thought. It didn't matter what else he said, what other reasons he substituted for those few words; that's how he felt. Somehow, Leon made Caesar more important than himself or her—made Caesar’s safety more important than April’s. Leon had woken her, told her something that could kill her if she kept it quiet, and then forbid her from telling.

This went deeper than their marriage though. They wanted a child now. They had talked about it for years and were finally going to dive in. They were putting another person's life in their hands, ensuring that they were completely responsible for someone else. April decided to have a child because she thought the man now walking around their bedroom—searching for clothes to wear—would put them first, both her and the child. She thought the man she married would look after her at all costs. Would protect her.

April's father had been liquidated.

April's father hadn't protected her or her mother. Both of them could have been liquidated. They could have been deemed Unnecessary because her mother was now a widow and she half an orphan. Probabilities had to say that she would grow up a delinquent and her mother would begin abusing substances. The Genesis hadn't put them down though; it allowed them to live. It allowed them to go on and now here she was, because of The Genesis, with a chance to have a child of her own and Leon trying to put her in the same danger that her father had.

Had she married a man like her father? Someone that put the world in front of his family?

Her stomach felt queasy, like she might vomit right here in the bed.

How had she been so dumb? How had her mother not seen it? How had either of them let her turn to a man so cowardly, so easily swayed, so ready to sacrifice his family? She didn't know the answers to those questions but she realized that holding this family together fell to her now.

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