The WereGames by Jade White

Author:Jade White [White, Jade]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

“Good god…” one research worker gasped, seeing what had unfolded live on the screen. They had stopped their work to view the day’s events, thinking it would be just another one of those days where the werebeings had to survive while looking for food and shelter.

They were more than glad that they had called for a break from the microscopes and centrifuges. There was a sizable crowd around the screen that hovered a few feet above the ground. Even Edith was watching in rapt attention, her mind churning with possibilities. The werebear was as amazing and as daunting as she had last seen it. It roared, causing birds to fly in scattered directions, all miles away.

She saw the others in the lab take notes, and she didn’t even need to tell them to. This was entertainment and work at the same time. She quietly slipped out and headed for Alexia’s quarters, knowing everyone was too embroiled in the games.

By the time she got to Alexia’s room, she saw the girl curled up in the corner of her bed, her back against the wall. She was reading a book and didn’t bother to look up, as if knowing who was outside her door already.

Dr. Delaney took a breath and strode for her, taking a seat across the bed. Alexia looked up.

“Come to bother me again?” Alexia said, her eyes narrowed.

Edith hid her smile. The girl had become quite spunky the past few days, after the werebear had shifted in front of everyone.

“I’m rooting for Ryker.”

“Ryker?”

“X014,” Edith told her.

“Because he’s got a chance?” Alexia said, disbelieving.

“Because he is the chance,” Edith told her. “They’re fighting now. He’s shifted, if you’d like to see.”

Alexia slowly put the book down, knowing she couldn’t deny herself this. She hadn’t seen him shift in person, only in videos that Edith had shown her. It was a replay, exactly twenty minutes behind the live footage. Alexia watched in rapt attention, seeing the brutality that Caliban wreaked among them. She closed her eyes, remembering how Caliban had always been such a hot-tempered subject, even as a child…

He had been test subject 1013 ever since she knew him. Destined to be put in the WereGames when he was deemed ready by the facility. It was no fair fight, but that was the whole point of it, to see if these genetically enhanced werebeings would come out as alpha among the others who were born as such.

Caliban had always been a serious child, one who’d had sparse interactions with her, but they spoke nonetheless. It was part of the testing, after all. She saw him first, as a bald, thin boy of about nine, dark hair and dark eyes, and with a multitude of scars on his back that wouldn’t heal, no matter what the doctors injected him with. They did skin grafting operations, but the scars resurfaced, as if in defiance to wiping his slate clean.

She had taught him to read in the rarest of moments when they

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