A Chimera's Revenge by Eve Langlais

Author:Eve Langlais [Langlais, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-16T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

There was a moment of silence after Bryant hit the floor before Jane screeched, “You killed him!”

“Yes.” Adrian kept the word low as he glanced outside. He checked for more trouble before closing the door and locking it.

“You didn’t even try to talk to him.”

“Do you really think he would have answered?” Adrian asked, tucking the gun in the waistband of his pants.

She eyed him. Not his face. But his body. Her gaze tracking over his skin and lower, bringing an arousal that his tight underwear hopefully hid. As a teenager, she had fueled more than one erotic fantasy, and now as an adult, she was more alluring than ever.

She frowned. “I was out of it when I attacked you, but you didn’t shoot me.”

“I knew you weren’t a lost cause.” More like hoped, because he had a feeling she was his only hope.

“How could you know that? I came here to kill you,” she insisted.

He sighed and raked fingers through his hair. “What would you like me to tell you, Jane? Did I hesitate with you? Yes, I fucking did, which was dumb. Trust me, Jett has told me a couple of times now that I should have either locked you up or shot you by now.”

“Who’s Jett?” she growled.

“My right-hand man. One of the few left. And not the subject at hand. I am not the boy you remember. You’ve yet to truly meet the man. I will, however, say this; I won’t hesitate to do what has to be done.”

“Killing patients?” Her gaze flicked to the one on the floor. “Hiding evidence of what you did.”

“The world isn’t ready for what I can offer yet.” They might never be ready. Or even understand. He’d crossed so many lines in his pursuit of a cure. Trampled on people’s rights and feelings. Destroyed those who didn’t follow his vision.

Only now did he feel some remorse. But at the same time, he’d do it all again—especially if it meant saving Jane.

“What went wrong with his treatment?” she asked, the curiosity in her query a surprise.

“Bryant was a different case than both of us. He was in a bad helicopter crash. Lost both legs and an arm. Suffered a severe brain injury and burns over sixty percent of his body.”

Her nose wrinkled, possibly due to the potent stench filling the basement. “He doesn’t look burned. He has a lot of hair.”

His lips twitched. “Because, in order to regenerate surface skin, we had to blend his DNA with one that would reconstitute it.”

“I don’t understand.”

“It’s complicated, and I want to tell you all about it, but I really need to get rid of this.” He waved a hand at the cooling corpse.

“You going to eat it?”

For a moment his hunger flared and demanded meat. His lip curled back over his teeth before he managed a barked, “Of course not!” The very fact she asked, though, made him wonder…had she eaten human flesh? And of even more interest, how did it taste?

Before he could ask her to spark the barbecue and pull out some spices, he came to his senses.

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