Insider (The Lost Clone Book 3) by Jordan Rivet

Author:Jordan Rivet [Rivet, Jordan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-20T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

TWENTY

We stayed in the stealth car, circling around Grid City, while I told Sully everything. I described the secret government agency that had installed undetectable surveillance implants in our bodies then abandoned us on Cloneworks campuses until the time was right to place us with key families. The files I’d studied showed that the youngest Jane units had been adopted at four and five years old. Janette had been one of them.

“No one would suspect cute little girls who couldn’t even understand a lot of what they saw and heard. The agency could use the data they collected without anyone knowing a thing.”

As I said it all out loud, I worried she wouldn’t believe me. But Sully had spent her entire life hungry for answers, just like me. She gobbled up the story and asked for more. I responded to her questions as well as I could, though I still wasn’t sure I had the complete picture.

“What do they do with all that data?” she asked, her freckled forehead wrinkling. “And how do they decide how to use it?”

“That’s one of the things I’m trying to find out,” I said. “They claim they work for the benefit of New State as a whole, but I don’t think that’s the full story. What they did to our batch was illegal and inhumane, and it shouldn’t be allowed to continue.”

“I’ll say!” Sully rubbed her sternum, as though searching for signs of her implant. She looked a little queasy. “And the guy chasing us? He’s one of their goons?”

“Yes. I’m not sure what he was trying to do.” It was no coincidence that Logan had shown up in Sully’s neighborhood at the same time as me. Maybe the agency had been monitoring her, waiting for me to make contact. Or maybe he’d had another way of knowing I’d be there.

I looked over at Dean. “Do you think they’ve been tracking me somehow, and he came here to catch me?”

Dean frowned. “You didn’t have any devices on you when you escaped, except for the bead drive.”

I took the sapphire bead out of my pocket—I carried it with me at all times—and handed it over. “Can you tell if it has a tracker? Maybe one they can’t detect from the Vault and they’ve just been waiting for me to come outside?”

Dean opened a gear compartment in the side of the railcar and took out a slim scanner device. He ran it over the bead drive on a variety of different settings, but it didn’t produce any telltale beeps. “It’s clean.”

“Could they…” I swallowed and started again. “Could they have installed a tracker in my body? I was unconscious for a lot of the time I was in there, and the doctor was studying me.”

Revulsion swept through me at the thought. I’d lived most of my life with a nonfunctioning implant, and I hated the idea that Doc had put something new in my body without my knowledge.

Dean met my eyes, seeming to understand my fear. “I don’t have the right scanner for that here, but we’ll check the minute we get back.

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