Midnight Breed - 10 Darker After Midnight by Lara Adrian

Author:Lara Adrian
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780345529299
Publisher: Bill
Published: 0101-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

She scrolled to a later record and read the information in stunned, sickened silence. “There were others before me, but they died as infants in the medical trials. Dr. Lewis apparently discovered a combination of chemicals and synthetically engineered immunosuppressants that could inhibit blood thirst and halt genetic transformation. He tested it on us, knowing some would die.”

Chase’s mouth was pressed in a flat line as he read the record along with her. “Life means nothing to Dragos and his followers. Not even the most innocent.”

Tavia paged to a different section of her file and quickly read the contents. “He’s orchestrated every aspect of my life from the moment I was born. The medical trials and lies about who I was would’ve been bad enough, but that was only the start of it.” She pointed to a notation about her photographic memory. There were references to detailed exercises the clinic had put her through in order to help build her innate ability and hone it like a weapon. There were other documents too, explaining hypnosis sessions that had gone on for hours and days at a stretch—time in which they’d pumped her unconscious mind for information, forcing her to document everything she’d seen and heard, page after page of details, written while her mind and body were under a narcotic spell. It had all been training for the real mission Dragos had in store for her.

Tavia pulled up another entry, no longer shocked by anything she read. The reality of it settled on her like a wet, cold blanket. It chilled her to the bone, made her ache inside with a void she thought might never be filled.

“He used me, Chase. He created me so he could use me. From the very beginning, just like Aunt Sarah—” She stopped herself, closing her eyes at the pang of hurt that welled inside her from the betrayal. “Just like the Minion who pretended to be my aunt had said. Dragos has owned me from day one. He made sure I had the right education, the right contacts, the right social skills and access. Then he cleared the path for me to get my job with an up-and-coming political star like Senator Clarence. All that time, I was nothing but a puppet for him.”

“We’re all puppets as far as Dragos is concerned. Every living being on this planet is either a tool for him to use or an obstacle that needs to be pushed out of his way.”

There was a gravity to Chase’s voice that made Tavia’s stomach clench with dread. “Can he be stopped?”

The fact that it took Chase more than a few seconds to reply only made the knot in her gut coil a bit tighter, a bit colder. “I don’t know,” he said. “If you’d asked me that a year ago, I would’ve had a different answer. Back then, I believed that good always triumphs over evil. Everything was black or white, right or wrong, and the bad guys always lost in the end.

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