Mason's Regret by Odessa Lynne

Author:Odessa Lynne [Lynne, Odessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Odelyn Publishing
Published: 2017-12-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Lake and the other wolf, Rain, met them just inside the sunlit hallway beyond the biolab’s entrance. Just being inside again made Mason’s stomach heavy and his heart pound. He remembered so much of that night, so clearly, not the least of which was the memory he had of thinking Marcus was dead, and it was surprising how viscerally his body reacted just crossing the threshold into the building.

The floor-to-ceiling windows allowed plenty of daylight into the facility and Mason was struck by how different the place looked in the light of day. The glass on the floor crunched underfoot, and he noticed right away how scattered it had become.

People had been inside, walking around since the night of the storm, he was sure of it.

“I found something you should see,” Lake said to Cord, speaking in the wolves’ language, just before taking the lead down that long hallway.

Rain stayed behind, leaving Mason to assume he was waiting for Five and Francis and whoever it was they were dragging back with them.

At the end of the hallway, Lake led them down a set of open stairs to the lower level. From the front of the building, it would’ve been considered the basement, but from the back, it appeared to be the ground floor. Mason hadn’t explored that area with Jay and Sebastian. If there’d been more time, they would have gotten to it eventually, but there hadn’t been more time, and they’d never made it past the first floor.

He was halfway down the wide stairway when a fly buzzed past his ear, startling him into jerking his hand up to swat it away. It was a bad move, reminding him with a sharp stab of pain that he had a broken bone in his hand.

“Are you okay?” Cord asked from behind him.

“Yeah, it was nothing. Just startled me.”

At the foot of the stairs, a whiff of something unpleasant stuck to the back of his tongue. Nothing overt, but it made him look around, searching for the source, but all he saw was the empty hallway and windows that looked out at nothing but trees and brush and, in the distance, what looked like an old retaining wall made of dark red brick.

Several doors lined the inside of the hallway, and Lake stopped in front of one in particular with a cracked panel set into it at eye level. In the past, the panel would have given a hint of what was behind the door, but without power, and broken, all it promised was a nasty surprise.

Dread curled tight in Mason’s belly. He didn’t want to see what was behind that door, but he couldn’t explain why. He glanced to the side at Jordan and took notice of the suddenly stoic expression on his face.

Mason swallowed hard.

He knew exactly where these feelings were coming from—the wolves around him. This was how they’d done it—how they’d turned Brendan and Marcus and so many others—they were burrowing so deep into him that he wouldn’t ever be the same.

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