Touching Smoke (Touch Series Book #1) by Airicka Phoenix

Author:Airicka Phoenix [Phoenix, Airicka]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: TreasureLine Publishing
Published: 2012-07-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

The diary made my skin itch where the sweat had pooled between the leather and my lower spine. I tried not to shift too much in fear of jostling the book free of my waistband, but sitting squished between Isaiah and Johnson, I had very little choice. No matter which way I leaned, I came up against muscle, and whilst one side made my skin crawl, I was already half in the other one’s lap.

Wherever Garrison’s lab was, it wasn’t anywhere near a city. We had yet to come across any sort of residence. Nothing but vast wilderness greeted us from all sides.

“Aren’t you even a little upset about what you’re doing?” I blurted suddenly, startling myself.

Looking up from the nails he was polishing on the sleeve of his suit, Garrison stared. “Science is never easy, Fallon.”

“You mean playing God isn’t easy,” I muttered.

He didn’t seem fazed by the venom in my words. “Some say playing God, I say improving humanity.”

“You honestly don’t believe you’ve done anything wrong.” I was amazed.

He visibly stiffened. “I have cured hundreds of children of fatal diseases. I have changed the world of science. I have done the impossible.”

“Yet your laboratory is hidden in the middle of nowhere instead of splashed across every paper and magazine,” Isaiah smirked coldly. “If what you’re doing was legal, why has no one heard of you? Why are you hiding from the government?”

All traces of the calm, kind man was gone. An aura of pure hatred crackled around Garrison like a heat wave. “People don’t understand genius. They fear it and will do anything to stop progress.”

“No, they will do anything to stop a madman on a power trip.”

I grabbed Isaiah’s wrist, silently warning him to stop pushing. Too far and we could both wind up dead. Garrison had already made it clear that he could make more if he wanted. We were completely expendable.

“You are so much like Ashton,” Garrison spat the name as though it were something foul. “Too afraid to push barriers, always staying a safe distance from anything that might get his hands dirty. He never understood what it took to be great. Look at him now. What does he have? A house full of useless castoffs.”

“Your castoffs!” The heat that wafted off Isaiah nearly singed me. “Ashton Reaghan is a great man!”

“He is predictable!” Garrison shot back. “Did he honestly think I didn’t know what he was doing? Did you really think I would leave my most valuable pieces just loitering around unguarded?” he smirked when Isaiah stiffened. “He thinks himself such a hero, rescuing all those poor, helpless children from my evil clutches. I knew all along what he was doing. He’s not the only one with a snake in the hen house. Every move he makes, my contacts in that pathetic sanctuary of his alert me, and I am one-step ahead of him. Every time he ‘breaks’ into my lab and takes a child, I am in my office laughing. So forgive me if I don’t share your sentiments about him being a great man.

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