Mortality Bound- The Complete Boxed Set by S W Clarke & Ramy Vance

Author:S W Clarke & Ramy Vance [Clarke, S W & Vance, Ramy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Keep Evolving Studios
Published: 2019-11-08T22:00:00+00:00

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Justin and I didn’t speak for the next two days.

We inhabited Ananda’s apartment, but I slept in the bedroom with my sister, and he slept in the living room with Hercules and Cupid. The four of them went to the Bellagio every day, and I went to the lab. And while it killed me not to talk to my own boyfriend, I got it.

He was dealing with a lot more than a twenty-year-old should have to deal with.

But I did have a bone to pick with my sister. The first night, I confronted Ananda in the bedroom about telling Justin my secret. Except she’d looked at me like she always did: with a certain infuriating amusement. She always thought I took things too seriously.

She folded her arms. “Were you going to tell him yourself?”

I lowered my toothbrush. “Yes.”

“That’s not true.” She stepped around the bed. “When?”

“Once we’d dealt with everything in Vegas.”

“Bullshit. I know you, Isa.”

I thrust the toothbrush at her. “What does that mean?”

“You were scared he’d reject you if you told him the truth.” Then, “Regardless, you do know that this is kind of a life-or-death situation, don’t you? I mean, a guy deserves to know if he’s a baby daddy before he dies.”

“I was going to tell him,” I growled. “After things calmed down.”

She made a face. “Go spit. The inside of your mouth looks like you just took Hercules’s—“

“GODDESS YEMOJA!” I yelled as I stalked into the bathroom. I spat in the sink and turned. “Can’t you just apologize for anything? Anything at all? You always have to make it out like I’m being oversensitive.”

“All right.” Ananda leaned against the doorway. “I’m sorry for not correcting you before. It’s actually GoneGoddess Yemoja.”

And that was how I ended up sleeping in Ananda’s bathtub for two nights.

On the other hand … those two days brought a significant upside. I worked like a demon in the lab, spending all my waking hours there. And by the end of those two days, I had created OtherXF.

The F stood for “flight.”

After I’d created the injectable counteragent, making it airborne was the easy part. It took me forty-eight hours of—admittedly backbreaking—work to make it fly. But when I did, I knew it was bombproof.

That afternoon, when I delivered it to Ms. Sparkle in the back of her black sedan, I could almost see tears in her eyes. “You’ve done it.” Her glossy eyes lifted to me. “How is it administered?”

“Any way you like. Inject it directly, or take it up in a crop sprayer plane—it won’t have an effect on humans, but it will protect Others. But it has to go out before the OtherX, or it won’t be as effective. Think of it like a vaccine.”

She turned the stoppered bottle before her face. “I don’t believe anyone else could have done this.”

Naturally, I deflected. “I doubt that’s true. I’m just a—”

She looked past the bottle to me. “You’re a good person. A passionate one. You want to save lives.”

“If that’s true, then my sister is a good person, too.

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