CyberChrist by Matthew J. Pallamary

Author:Matthew J. Pallamary
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: science fiction, thriller, genetics, immortality
Publisher: Mystic Ink Publishing
Published: 2016-03-06T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

No more Jeff Ashley thought, eying agent Hart over the top of her computer screen. Gone. End of story. No one mentioned it and no one talked about it after Mossbarger’s call. It felt like everybody went on with their lives as though Jeff had never existed. She knew to the core of her being that she would never see him again, just like she’d never see Russell Holmstedt, Chris Daniels, or anybody who ever worked at Genengineering.

Numb from the specter of Jeff’s absence and the lack of closure that came with it, Ashley could only go through the motions of doing her job. Outside of that she felt like a bug in a jar.

Weeks dragged by in maddening sameness. Knowing someone watched every moment of her life made Ashley feel more trapped with each passing day. Every morning Scott drove her to work with Reeth, Hart, Mossbarger and others escorting them there and back.

Since changing her email address, the flood from Linton and the CyberChrist people stopped, but the website remained active. Ashley wondered what they would do when they heard Christine Daniels was dead. She wanted to do her own investigating, but with every aspect of her life under scrutiny it didn’t seem possible. The dorky little geek who worked for Mossbarger joked that her office had more microphones than a recording studio.

Today she sat at her desk like every other day, unable to work on the article she had started for fear of having it seen by her keepers. Everywhere she turned she saw cops and now she had enough. She needed some breathing room. She watched Hart dozing in a chair by the door, his head dipping toward his chest like one of those bobbing water drinking birds. Soon his chin dropped and his eyes closed.

This is it, she thought, grabbing her laptop and purse. She took a deep breath and tip-toed past him. Once out in the newsroom, she hurried through the doors on its far side and made her way downstairs to the press room where she stepped into a small glass walled office to call Scott.

Three minutes later, he came through the double doors at the end of the press room. Ashley waved him over, then took his hand and led him past the rumbling printing press out to the loading docks.

A big truck at the end of the platform roared to life. Ashley ran for it, pulling Scott behind her. No sooner had he hopped into the back of the truck, when a bearded man in overalls pushed up the gate and pulled the canvas curtain shut. The truck jolted into motion a moment later, sending Scott flying into bundles of the evening edition. When they passed the front of the building they saw Mossbarger and Hart rush out the front doors. Ashley giggled and pulled Scott down behind a stack of papers.

“You’re nuts, you know that?” he said, dropping beside her. “Christ, I’m too old for this shit.”

“I need a break,” she said.

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