Hidden Gem by Lissa Kasey

Author:Lissa Kasey [Kasey, Lissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

FOURTEEN

SHANE GLARED at the test results. Billion-dollar labs and called-in IOUs, he had the results to the DNA. Candy’s was a match to the victim, which meant the clone was dead. Or at least he hoped it was the clone that was dead. Shane shook his head, still trying to wrap himself around the idea. They’d cloned people before with really bad results. Often the clones died quickly of failed organs or some kind of disease that suddenly appeared. Nothing had proven to last more than a handful of weeks, and certainly not a year or more. And human clones never actually functioned as humans.

Jackson had shown up just after Shane got the results back. He was pissed about something, but Shane was too baffled by Candy’s test, and Aki’s, to care. Aki’s….

That was a clusterfuck. DNA did not match to the dead Ino kid, not unless it had mutated itself over about a million times. Shane had a friend who specialized in genetic mutations looking over the results from Aki’s test. It didn’t match anyone in any traceable database. In fact, Aki wasn’t human. Not according to the DNA breakdown. His code matched nothing that Shane’s scientist friends had ever seen. He was pretty sure that if the ISS got a hold of Aki, they’d probably never let him go. Not only did he appear to have psi-mutation strains in his DNA, but he also had A-M strains. Impossible, as the two seemed to kill the host when mixed or mutate the host so far that they really became some sort of monster.

Shane spent most of his weekend reading through every article he could find on genetic mutation, the psi strains, and their effect on DNA evolution. All hypothetical. Theories not even begun to be tested yet. Or so they claimed.

“You can’t just take people’s medical files, McNaughton. Do you have any idea what the higher-ups will do if they find out?” Jackson was ranting while he pawed through the pile. “Medical info is top secret.”

“To anyone not government. I have good hacker friends.” Shane had no idea what to look for, so Page was scanning the history for red flags. They’d already matched up half the kids with a suspicious slew of surgeries. Except Candy. No record of a surgery for him. But the kid had spent some time in a sexual orientation reassignment camp. Almost as bad as the concentration camps. “What do you know about clones, Taylor? How much does the ISS know?”

“Citizen class or soldier class? Two very different animals.”

Shane blinked. “I’ve been researching all day, and there’s nothing about classes of clones.”

Jack waved his hand like the idea of it was absurd. “Of course not. Like the ISS would allow the general public to have that sort of knowledge. It’s just like the A-Ms, people would panic.”

“So you believe that keeping the public in the dark is protecting them, or us?”

He glanced up. “I’m not stupid, Shane. It’s us we’re protecting. We’re a minority just like the psis.

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