Adam by Ted Dekker

Author:Ted Dekker
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9781418537081
Publisher: Center Street
Published: 2008-03-31T22:00:00+00:00

NINETEEN

DANIEL WAS TWO BLOCKS from the FBI field office on Wilshire when the next bout of near-death effects swallowed his mind.

He sucked at the car’s stale air as darkness clouded his vision. But he couldn’t black out. The office was only a minute away. Hunting down Eve was now beyond his own need for accomplishment or to rid society of an evil it had spawned. Heather’s life was now in his hands.

And his hands were on the wheel, jerking spastically as he fought off the darkness. His body began to convulse, and for a moment he thought he might actually throw up.

He spread his eyes wide and maintained vision. Unfortunately, the effort resulted in less control over his arms. The car veered to the right and plowed into a flashing barricade. Horns blared.

The fear lifted then, as the Lexus nosed for a hole in the pavement. He stood on the brakes and came to a halt three feet from the worst of the road construction.

Daniel glanced behind, saw that several cars had stopped twenty yards behind, threw the car in reverse, and backed out of the construction pit. He drove back out onto Wilshire and sped down the coned lane, leaving more than a couple of drivers gawking.

He parked in a visitor’s spot and headed straight for the basement. Only one other worker saw him—a secretary from the third floor who nodded on her way out for the night.

The viewing window in the morgue’s steel door was lit at the dark hall’s end. Daniel slowed to a walk. Like a man headed for the light in a near-death experience, he walked toward the morgue’s light. Silent except for his breathing and the padding of his feet.

He ran the last ten feet, shoved the door open, and faced Lori, who was leaning against the steel exam table, arms crossed, waiting for him.

For a moment they stared at each other, Daniel calming his breathing, Lori searching his eyes with steely inquisition. They both knew a turning point had been forced upon them, he thought. He had, at least, and he hoped she, too, would accept the truth.

“Lori.”

“Hello, Daniel.”

Beat.

“You know there’s only one way to do this, Lori.”

“Do I?”

“Something happened to me back there in Manitou Springs. I was killed. My brain was subjected to an electrochemical barrage that washed Eve’s face from my memory and short-circuited my mind. Isn’t that what happened?”

“Yes. Yes, that’s what happened.”

“I have to go back to that moment, Lori. You know that’s the only way now.”

She was silent.

“You have to kill me, Lori.”

“Don’t be a fool.”

Here it was, then. The standoff Daniel knew it would come down to.

“Eve’s taken Heather,” he said, voice strained. “I’m the only one who can help her. I know what Eve looks like; he’s locked in my mind.”

“I’m not going to kill—”

“You have to!” Daniel walked toward her, not caring that he’d yelled. “His image is locked in here.” He jabbed his head. “Nothing out there can help her, and you know that as well as I do.

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