Cyber Dawn (A Ben Raine Novel) by Adams M.L

Author:Adams, M.L. [Adams, M.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780991184804
Publisher: Rialla Publishing LLC
Published: 2014-01-09T20:00:00+00:00

24

“This thing is sweet,” Sarah said for the tenth time.

And for at least the tenth time, I regretted letting her drive my Jeep. It was not helping my vertigo. “Great,” I replied. “Can you slow down a little? I’m going to throw up.”

“Can’t,” she said. “We have to clear that CyberLife server log before somebody notices the entry. If we don’t, you’re screwed.”

“How are we going to do that?” I asked.

She didn’t answer. But she did accelerate.

Two minutes later, we pulled into the Starbucks parking lot near our school.

“Sarah, why are we . . .”

Without answering, she climbed out and ran around to my side of the Jeep. She pulled the passenger door open and half-yanked me out. Before I could ask what was going on, she grabbed my hand and ran across the street to the sidewalk in front of our school. I wouldn’t normally mind holding her hand, but she was walking so fast, I felt more like a dog on a leash than a couple taking a stroll together.

We jogged down the sidewalk until we reached the start of a bike path that wound its way around the school and headed back toward the downtown area. Off to our left was the river that flowed around the back of our school. To the right was the actual school, its lights seeping through the trees.

I thought maybe Sarah lived nearby and was using the path to cut through to her neighborhood. Instead, she suddenly slowed and ducked off the path and into the woods behind our school. She stopped behind a large cottonwood tree and pulled me down to her side.

“Sarah?”

“Shhh,” she said.

“Um, what are we doing? Don’t we need to figure out this CyberLife thing?”

“That’s what I am doing,” she whispered. “Now stop talking before Oscar hears you.”

Oscar? Who in the heck is Oscar?

Sarah put her finger to her lips and glanced at the school. “Shhh,” she repeated.

I followed her gaze and spotted a man in a security guard uniform rounding the back corner of the building. In his hand was a giant metal flashlight and I could hear the occasional squawk from a radio.

“Stay down,” Sarah whispered.

I crouched behind her and my eyes alternated between the back of her head and the approaching guard. For an instant, I debated calling him for help. Sarah had, at the moment, seemingly lost her mind.

A minute later, when the guard’s footsteps faded around the far corner, she turned to me, and asked, “Ready?”

I grabbed her arm. “Ready for what?”

“I told you, we’re going to my office.”

I opened my mouth to verbalize my earlier question—have you gone crazy? But before I could get the words out, Sarah ran in a low crouch to the back of the school. Against my better judgment, I followed.

We stopped at a locked metal door. Sarah pulled a white plastic key card from her bag. She waved it across a sensor pad and the door clicked open.

“Come on,” she said. “Let’s go.”

I glanced down the side of the building where the guard had been a minute before.

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