Bane by Amelia C. Gormley

Author:Amelia C. Gormley [Gormley, Amelia C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Published: 2015-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

The kidnappers took Schuyler away the moment they disembarked from the personnel transport, and they led Rhys to a small room. A cell, really. It had a bunk and toilet, but not much else.

He tried the door and found it locked, which wasn’t a surprise. What was a surprise was how quickly someone entered his room. At the first rattle of the door, Rhys had tensed, afraid it might be Littlewood. If even a fraction of what Zach had told him about the man was true, he was someone Rhys never wanted to meet. But now, he’d agreed to put himself in Littlewood’s clutches and he was so terrified his mouth had forgotten how to make spit.

But it wasn’t Littlewood who appeared at Rhys’s door. It was a woman with dark-gray hair and a lined, tired face, accompanied by an elderly white man whose gaunt features looked haunted.

“Mr. Cooper?” the woman asked tentatively, as though uncertain how Rhys would react. “I’m Dr. Thanh, and this is Logan. Are you all right? They didn’t injure you, did they?”

“Would you care?” He put his back to the wall, folding his arms across his chest.

The woman gave him a weary smile. “Believe it or not, yes, I would. I came here the exact way you did, Mr. Cooper. I don’t want to be here, either. I have a husband and children back in the Clean Zone to whom I’d like to return. So you have my sympathy.”

“But not enough to stop you from kidnapping me.”

“I didn’t order that.” Thanh shook her head adamantly, frowning. “I wouldn’t have, if I were in charge of the DPRP. Secretary Littlewood’s way of doing things is not something many of us agree with.”

“Yet you work for him anyway.”

“Under duress.” She grimaced. “I’ve been pressed into service, just like you. I don’t have a choice.”

“And what about him?” Rhys jerked his head in Logan’s direction, unwilling to let them think he was softening toward them.

“I’m—” Logan cleared his throat, his voice rough and rusty, as if he didn’t speak often. “I’m here because I want to help end Bane.”

“Fine.” Rhys let his arms drop, his eyes moving between them. “What do you want from me?”

Thanh gave something that might have been a smile, though it looked like it took effort. “We need to conduct a physical examination—”

“No.”

“Excuse me?”

There was no way he was undressing in front of these people. “Zach examined me back in the Clean Zone. I’m sure you have the files. I’m in perfect health, and I’m done being poked and prodded by you people.”

Thanh’s mouth tightened. “Is this the level of cooperation we can expect from you?”

“Considering how I came here, I’d say any cooperation at all is way more than you have any business expecting,” Rhys snapped. “Now what do you want from me? More blood for your tests?” He pushed up his sleeve and thrust his arm out. “Fine. Take it. But I’m done stripping down for your stooges.”

“No!” She stumbled back a step, her eyes widening with alarm.

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