Her Perfect Mate by Paige Tyler

Author:Paige Tyler
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Published: 2014-05-05T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

They went to Mitch Dowling’s place first, but it was a bust. Other than learning from his brother that Dowling worked on how pathogens adapt to their environment so the CDC could understand why some people reject vaccines, they found nothing.

They went to see Sarah Beacon’s husband next. The man was too distraught to be much help, but he did mention Sarah’s work on gene therapy required a very specific type of computer—a very large, expensive one you couldn’t get at the local Best Buy.

While Landon found them someplace to have dinner, Ivy called the DCO and told John what they’d learned, then asked him to see if anyone recently had purchased a computer like the one Sarah Beacon used. John got back to them before the waitress even brought their food.

“A man by the name of Arnold Doyle ordered a similar computer a month ago, paid up front for it, and had it delivered to a warehouse outside of Atlanta. I’m sure it’s an alias, but I’ve got someone trying to track him down anyway. In the meantime, I’m sending the address of the warehouse to your phone. I don’t want you two taking chances, though,” John warned. “Check the place out and if it looks suspicious, call for backup.”

It was dark by the time he and Ivy got there, but Landon saw enough of the sign illuminated by the lone streetlamp to know the abandoned warehouse had once been a distribution center for an organic food supermarket chain. There didn’t seem to be anyone around, but they scouted the perimeter just to be sure.

“No one’s been here for a while.” Ivy’s voice was soft in the darkness as they entered the building. “Three weeks, maybe a month.”

The first room they came to looked like whoever had been there used it as a break room, but the food wrappers and empty pizza boxes could just as easily be from vagrants as from Stutmeir and his men.

Ivy sniffed the air, her nose wrinkling.

“What is it?”

Her mouth tightened. “Blood.”

“Fresh?”

She shook her head as she led the way down the hallway into the main part of the warehouse.

As they drew nearer, even Landon picked up the smell. It was metallic and pungent. To Ivy’s heightened senses, it must be a hundred times more potent.

Landon wasn’t sure what he expected to find, and he was surprised when he stepped into a makeshift medical clinic. On top of the bright lights and ghastly wall color, there was surgical tape and bloody gauze. Used needles and empty IV bags, too.

“What the hell is this place?” Ivy breathed.

“I don’t know. But this stuff doesn’t exactly look like standard-issue equipment for making a bioweapon.” He looked around. “Let’s check out the rest of the building.”

There were several rooms in the back that looked like they might have been offices at one time. Two of the doors had padlocks on the outside. Landon cautiously pushed open one of them. It was empty except for a pile of blankets on the floor.

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