project integrate 02 - divide by campbell jamie

Author:campbell, jamie [campbell, jamie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-11-25T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

“The project has been cancelled?” I whispered, not expecting an answer. The memo was department-wide, issued to every single serving Agent.

“We suspected this, it’s nothing we weren’t already thinking,” Garrick tried to reassure me. I wasn’t buying it. A part of me never truly expected the government to do the wrong thing. I believed in them, even when I shouldn’t have. That damn optimism had always been there, even if just a whisper.

“They’re going to kill everyone, that’s got to be a certainty now,” I continued, sounding more than a little hysterical. Perhaps it was the hours spent hunched over the computer, or the copious amounts of coffee I’d drunk, but I felt on edge. Like, right on the edge, as if I could tumble over at any moment. “They’re all going to die. Every one of the members of the project. We’ll all be wiped out.”

Garrick grabbed my arms and forced me to look at him. “We’re going to stop them. Do you hear me? We will stop them.”

I wanted to believe him but was too busy freaking out at that moment. There would be no end to our running. The Department wouldn’t stop until we were dead. We would never be able to resume our old lives again. Lochie, Lola, my parents, school, marriage, babies, prom, graduation, college, it was all yanked out of my reach. I would spend the rest of my life in hiding, probably end up as one of those paranoid freaks who lived in caves and never bathed.

Not to mention the fate of everyone in the complex. They wouldn’t even get the privilege of cave dwelling. “We have to get everyone out of the complex.”

“We will,” Garrick tried again. He was taking the news a lot better than I was. “We have to calm down and work out a plan. I think we need to show Kyle this document.”

I stared back at the screen, the source of my terror. The memo was brief – the project was cancelled, resources would be assigned elsewhere, and the air force was to be put on standby. The security level of the country would be raised so the army could be enlisted to help too if needed.

They had to be expecting retaliation from Trucon, otherwise why did they need military standby? Were they planning on telling the leaders of our planet? They had to find out eventually, especially when the asteroid was getting closer by the day. Or would they shirk responsibility of that too?

A knock on the door made me jump. Garrick and I stared at each other, hoping it wasn’t the Department on the other side of the door. The sun had gone down while we were reading, leaving our trailer lit up like a glowing orange ball. We were trapped if it was someone coming for us. We only had one door and the windows wouldn’t open wide enough for us to slip through.

“Amery, I can see you.” Lochie’s voice had never sounded sweeter. I let out the breath I was holding and hurried to close the laptop screen.

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