Prey 4 by Rachel Vincent

Author:Rachel Vincent
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780778303657
Publisher: Mira Books
Published: 2010-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

“A microchip?” Parker reached for the tiny cylinder, but Feldman snatched it back, holding the object up where we could still see it between his thick fingers. But we couldn’t touch it without taking it from him. Which would not fit into our playing-nice approach.

“Yes.” Feldman eyed us closely, each in turn, obviously studying our reactions.

“That was in your back?” An image of Eckard’s corpse flashed behind my eyes, complete with the precisely slit skin between his shoulder blades.

Feldman nodded, frowning at my obvious surprise as I made the connection.

“Your upper back? Just to the left of your spine?”

“Yeah.” Feldman lowered his hand into his lap, fist wrapped around the tiny device again as excitement made my heart beat faster. Eckard had had one, too—until Marc had cut it out of him. But how had he known it was there? If Marc knew about the microchips before he was attacked, he would have told me.

“First of all, that’s weird,” Ethan said as he caught my gaze, silently telling me he’d made the connection, too. Parker and Dan nodded; we were all on the same page. “And it doesn’t look like any microchip I ever saw.”

“Me, either.” I smiled to thank him for keeping the tone light. Whatever these microchips were, we’d stumbled onto something big, and we couldn’t afford to piss Feldman off before he told us what he knew. I met the stray’s gaze. “Though admittedly, my familiarity with chips is limited to the guts of my cell phone. So enlighten me, please. What does it do?”

Feldman frowned, eyes narrowed in suspicion. “You really expect me to believe you don’t know what this is?”

I blinked at him in genuine surprise. “Why would we? I’ve never seen anything like it.”

“So you have no idea how this got under my skin?”

“None.” I met his eyes boldly, letting the truth shine in mine.

“Holy silicone suppository, Batman!” Ethan said, grinning. Dan snorted, Parker coughed to disguise a laugh, and I glared at them all. “What?” My brother shrugged defensively. “That’s what it looks like.”

Un-amused, Feldman ignored Ethan and focused on me. “Then how did you know where it was implanted?”

Crap. My mind raced. I had to answer, to keep him talking, but how much could I say without revealing that Marc had survived? “We, um…” I hesitated, glancing at the guys for advice. Dan shrugged, clearly at as much of a loss as I was, and Parker gave me a slight nod, telling me to say something. But as little as possible.

I took a deep breath and continued. “We found a body with a small hole in his back. Just big enough to implant one of those.” Or remove it. “But we didn’t know what that hole meant until now.” Please, please don’t ask whose body we found!

Fortunately, Feldman was too preoccupied with the chips to waste questions on tangential issues. “And you don’t know what this is?” he repeated, his face a tense mask of suspicion. We hadn’t convinced him yet.

“No clue,” Ethan said, with no trace of a smile.

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