Started with Errors by Joanna Beaumont

Author:Joanna Beaumont [Beaumont, Joanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-06T22:00:00+00:00

At the West point, Lana and Callum passed the unmanned guards’ station and climbed the open staircase next to it.

Callum lagged a few steps behind. She clutched the handrail and felt the vibrations from his reluctant footsteps through her arm. She hoped he wouldn’t back out. She turned to him and gave a reassuring smile. His face had turned sickly pale.

Lana looked through Alex’s office windows. Alex and Meda were looking at a large screen with thick red routes drawn on a star map.

Alex was leaning casually against his desk, dressed in black-sheened trousers and a white polo shirt like he was off to play golf and score an intergalactic hole-in-one.

Lana nudged Callum and nodded at the screen.

“Do we have to?” Callum whispered.

Lana had never seen Callum anxious before. She nodded at him then knocked on the office door.

Alex didn’t take his eyes from his star maps. “Come in.”

Lana pushed the door open.

Alex turned around and hit a button on his desk, blanking the screen.

Not bothering to look at her, he wiped invisible dust from his trousers and said, “How can I help you?”

“It’s about the embryos.” Lana glanced at Callum. She’d have to be the spokesperson. Callum looked ill, but at least he was still by her side. “We want to see the legal documents declaring them government assets.”

Lana watched Alex.

Alex finally considered her. “Legal documents? I didn’t think you would be worried about working legally, Lana. Or is it Lucy?”

Shit. Alex knew. He’d known all along. Had Paige told him? That’s why Paige was confident she’d get the security clearance. Alex had fixed it so she did.

“What is he talking about?” Callum asked Lana.

Her stomach sank. Their relationship could be over before it started. She should have told him sooner.

Alex smiled. “Ah…He doesn’t know. Shame, and things were just getting cosy between you too. Not revealing your true self is hard work. I admire your commitment, Lana.”

Meda nodded enthusiastically, in sincere agreement.

“What’s going on, Lana?” Callum asked.

Lana glared at Alex. How the hell did he know things were getting cosy? Was he spying on them? Smug prick.

Lana turned to Callum. “Let’s go outside.”

Lana took Callum’s hand, noticing how large it felt in hers. It could be the last time she held it. Her last chance to be near him. To be so close to love and lose it felt worse than she had ever imagined. She guided him outside Alex’s office.

“I was going to tell you,” she whispered, gripping his hand tighter.

“Tell me what?”

“My name is Lucy Green, not Lana Underwood. I’m Paige Green’s sister.”

First, he was confused and then there was something else—betrayal? He stepped back from her, forcing her to release his hand.

“Lucy Green…Paige Green…the Youth Party leader?”

She’d wanted to tell him but not like this. Alex had set her up, and he’d revelled in it like one of his growing pigs might one day hope to revel in mud.

She stared at Alex through the window. His star maps were back on the screen. He was drawing on another thick red escape route, connecting dots like a kid’s dot-to-dot puzzle.

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