Zero by Jacob Whaler

Author:Jacob Whaler [Whaler, Jacob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780998416229
Publisher: Jacob Whaler
Published: 2018-11-29T22:00:00+00:00

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Her eyes again.

They were intensely familiar. It wasn’t just the fact that one was blue and the other was brown. Link couldn’t shake the feeling he’d seen the same eyes before on someone else.

He didn’t want to pull the trigger. He never really believed he would. After all, Alix was only trying to help her people, doing what he’d do if they were to trade places. It was possible she was telling the truth. Maybe there really were brain labs in the Fringe powering all the tech in the Sanctuary. Maybe the Sanctuary really was too perfect, not able to exist on its own. And for all the mischief that Alix had done, she hadn’t killed anyone. She kept saying over and over that all she wanted was to tell the truth and show it to the world. She was cocky Fringe scum, but it was undeniable: all the killing and shooting had been done on his side alone.

Even if it were all true, what could Link or Chelsea or anyone else do about it? Tear down the Wall? Destroy the whole system created by the Quinns? It wasn’t possible, but even if it were, with so many people standing to lose so much, was it the right thing to do?

Link stood alone on a filthy, dark street. Nothing felt real, like he was back in the dreamscape, only this time it was a nightmare.

He’d taken the only possible path forward. He’d stopped thinking and pulled the trigger. And now he stood for a full minute staring at the body of Alix crumpled on the ground. She looked thinner than he remembered. Fragile and vulnerable.

Deep inside, he wanted to scream.

Why had she kissed him?

Still holding the pistol in trembling hands, Link couldn’t hold back the wave of hate. Only this time, it wasn’t for Alix. It was for Quinn, for pushing him to kill her, and for himself for being too weak to push back. Quinn’s cutting words played in his mind.

Don’t let fear get in the way of your greed.

It was a vintage Quinn statement, words that made no sense and yet made perfect sense. As he brooded over the words, another thought surfaced in his mind.

What about love? Wasn’t love more important than greed?

Before he realized it, he was on his knees, and then prostrate on the ground, hitting the dirt with his fists, crying aloud, feeling like a great hole had been blown in his psyche, destroying all the good in his life, leaving only emptiness and rage.

And then he remembered Chelsea. She was the one good thing left in his life, but there was only one way to get back to her.

Sliding his finger along the side of his jax, he uploaded the video he’d just taken of Alix. In a few seconds, Chelsea would find it in her personal secure server. She’d forward it on to her father. After Quinn saw it, he’d give the order to allow Link back into the Sanctuary. No one else would see it.

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