Tapped By Legacy by Brittaney Barfield

Author:Brittaney Barfield [Barfield, Brittaney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-12-24T00:00:00+00:00

 CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Cold water hits my face and sends chills up my spine. My vision clears enough so that I can see figures. There’s the tall one who grabbed me, standing in the corner of the room and sorting through what looks like metal knives and equipment. They’re going to kill me.

Someone has strapped me down to a hospital bed and changed my clothes: I’m wearing a hospital robe. My head feels like someone’s stomping on it. I can’t tell if this is from the alcohol or something they did to me when I was knocked out.

There has to be a way out of these straps. I wiggle my arms, which burns my wrists. And the more I move, the tighter the straps get. How did I get here? Why me? A bright light shines down on me, burning my eyes too. This is an operation room, and I’m the patient. I need to get out of here, now. There’s a window by the door, but it must be dark outside because I can’t see anything out there.

Did they kidnap me because Caleb heard Aiden mention the W.X? Did they get Caleb too? No. They can’t be the W.X. But if it’s not them, who is it?

“Hello, Brielle,” an unfamiliar voice says from a speaker. “You have something I need. Let’s stop playing games. Tell me the formula.”

The formula?

“You got the wrong person!”

“Don’t play dumb, sweetie. We know you have your mother’s journal with the formula.”

Aiden, Rylee, Theodore, and Kinsley—these are the only people who know about the journal. Rylee and Aiden would never comprise my secret, but I wouldn’t put it past Theodore or Kinsley—Theodore is more likely to be responsible for this than Kinsley. He’s hiding something.

“I promise you I don’t know about any journal or formula.”

The best option is to play dumb because I mean who knows it could be someone else. Rylee could have opened her mouth.

“I tried to do it the easy way, but I guess you’re a stubborn one. Just like your mother.”

Anger burns in my chest. “I told you. I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Your mother was smart but not smart enough.”

“I still don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“I tried to play nice.”

The door opens, and a person wearing a black mask marches in. They have on a lab coat and . . . black gloves! What the hell is going on?

“Where is the missing page? We know you’re hiding it,” the masked person growls.

They walk closer until they’re beside me and tap their foot on the edge of the bed, inclining the hospital bed until I’m sitting up. “I’m giving you one more chance.” They grip my chin. I struggle, opening and closing my jaw, trying to bite a finger, but I can’t.

There’s a missing page? I didn’t tear any pages from the journal.

“I was told not to kill you, but that doesn’t mean I can’t make you wish you were dead.”

The person whistles, and my original abductor walks over from the corner, holding dental extraction equipment.

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