Wayward (Cadence Phoenix #1) by Skye Knizley

Author:Skye Knizley [Knizley, Skye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B079H55VHK
Goodreads: 38314792
Publisher: Lonely Highway Publishing, LLC
Published: 2018-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

The hallway ended in another corridor at right angles. Both directions were strangely quiet, though Cadence had a feeling they were once full of screams. Across from her was another door, and the source of the strange light. It filtered through a broken sliding door that looked as if it had been ripped off its hinges by the creature.

Cadence slipped through the broken portion of the door and into a small office. There were two office stations, both with desktop computers and file cabinets attached. One of the computers was still on, its screen was the source of the light. She sat down at the desk and poked experimentally at the mouse. The screen lit up more with the Crimson Assurance knight logo, and then the desktop. It looked as if someone had been in a hurry to leave and hadn’t finished deleting all the files off the hard drive. Cadence was no computer whiz, but she knew enough to search through the recent documents. Most were garbled junk, but she found a collection of short videos attached to a file marked “Xenoid.” She played the first one and watched as two men in lab coats, their faces covered with full masks, approached the test subject, a young woman, who was strapped down to an exam table. She struggled helplessly, but was unable to escape. The men attached the IV’s to her arms and left her. The video then ended.

Video by video, episode by episode, Cadence watched as the young woman in the video grew a sort of cocoon of mucus and skin that surrounded her, then emerged eight days later from the scabrous mass as the creature she’d seen in the corridor. According to the notes, the staff at the lab had been unable to stop her and was forced to abandon the lab taking their final test subject with them.

“Who was the final test subject?” Cadence muttered to herself.

She tapped the keyboard and forced the whining, almost dead computer to search its remaining files. There were no more grainy videos, just a data file with corrupted data. A few taps on the keyboard produced a photo, however, and the girl in the photograph was unmistakable. It was a photo of her, taken in one of the cells. She was wearing nothing but a surgical gown and she looked terrified.

“What the hell?”

Cadence touched the computer screen and memories came flooding back, so hard they made her skull ache. Images of some kind of sensory deprivation tank, being chained to her bed in a tiny cell like the ones here, the half-hidden face of a white eyed doctor…

It was too much, too fast. Consciousness fled and she sank to the floor. She didn’t even feel the cold steel against her face when it came up to meet her.

When she woke, her head was resting on what she realized was Ethan’s folded up jacket. He was sitting at the desk, head resting in his hands.

“E? What happened?” She asked, her mouth dry and thick.

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