by Eliza Green
Bill jerked upright. ‘He did what?’
‘I don’t know what he wanted it for, but I also learned he’s biding his time for something else.’
Bill knew the man couldn’t be trusted.
He looked at her, clutching the sheet to her naked body. ‘I met with him a few hours ago. He demanded more clinics and staff to run his current one.’
Laura’s eyes widened. ‘I assume you stalled him?’
He’d missed this, having someone who knew him so well. ‘I did, but he wasn’t happy about it. He wants me to meet his new demands now.’
Laura frowned at her lap. ‘Maybe we need him.’ She looked at Bill. ‘We might need to continue trials in genetics to prevent issues like this from happening again.’
‘Yeah, probably.’
But could a different doctor do it?
‘How did you find the cure so fast?’ she asked.
‘Greyson found files from old experiments done to record the frequency used to enable brain-to-brain communication. The virus spread faster when a certain frequency was in use.’
She frowned again. ‘Files like those would be too big to transfer over the Wave as it is. So how did you get them?’
He paused. ‘I had to reinstate the interstellar wave.’
Her eyes widened and she pulled back. ‘What? For how long?’
‘A minute.’
‘Anyone could have downloaded anything, hacked the system.’
‘I know, love, but I didn’t have a choice.’
She sighed, which he took as a sign of her agreement. ‘Well, our first order of business is increasing the surveillance on that damn halfway house, and Harvey. Our second is deciding what to do with the ITF and the outdated peace treaty. Half of Stephen’s district left because of it. We need to discuss a new order for this world that includes the Indigenes.’
The thought had occurred to him. ‘I’ve given it some thought, but I honestly don’t see how that will work, not when there’s mistrust on both sides.’
‘It’s better than what’s happening now. Both sides want a voice. Let’s give it to them.’
He agreed with that. Bill pulled Laura close and nuzzled her neck.
The overhead light dipped suddenly. An alarm on the Light Box screamed from the other room.
Bill pulled back. ‘What the hell...?’
Laura bolted from the bed and picked up her clothes from the floor.
He copied her and entered the living room, pulling on his trousers.
‘What’s going on?’
The Light Box continued to scream. A message on the holographic front said: “Switch to emergency power.”
Laura rushed over to the window. Bill heard other alarms sounding in the distance. The time of day made it impossible to know if this was a blackout.
A bad feeling hit him. ‘The last time a power issue like this happened, it was the GS humans and their machine.’
Laura looked back at him, concern on her face. ‘I don’t like coincidences, Bill.’
‘Neither do I.’
The equipment Bill had brought in to accommodate Laura’s brief stay was still on the dining table. She ignored it and grabbed her DPad from her bag. He got his. The DPads operated off their own infinite supply of power.
Bill called the office. ‘Julie, what’s happening?’
‘The power’s down. We’re flying blind. Security is down here.’
‘Lock the doors manually to be safe. I’m on my way there.’
‘Okay.’ She clicked off.
He glanced at Laura. She was checking with the other ITFs. ‘Power’s down there too.’
‘Shit.’ Another call came through; this one was from Ben’s landlady, Mrs Hegarty. Her face filled the screen. ‘Bill, the boy never came home last night. I’m worried. He’s wandered off before but never stayed out all night.’
Fear gripped him, but he smiled at Mrs Hegarty. ‘He’s probably sleeping at a friend’s. Don’t worry, I’ll find him.’
He ended the call and dialled Jameson’s number next, but got no answer.
‘We need to go,’ he said to Laura. Bill dropped his DPad into his bag, but not before he called his car.
He and Laura jumped in and the car drove them to the compound. The gates were wide open and there were no guards on duty.
‘What happened here?’ asked Laura. ‘Should we check the hospital?’
‘No, I have a feeling I know what’s going on.’
He jumped out before the car came to a stop. Dread filled him as he raced to the biodome at the back of the hospital. The door was ajar. Inside the dome, several guards lay unconscious. Ahead of him, the door to the prison cell made of glass was wide open.
Marcus Murphy was gone. Ben was missing.
All signs pointed to Harvey Buchanan.
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Eliza Green tried her hand at fashion designing, massage, painting, and even ghost hunting, before finding her love of writing. She often wonders if her desire to change the ending of a particular glittery vampire story steered her in that direction (it did). After earning her degree in marketing, Eliza went on to work in everything but marketing, but swears she uses it in everyday life, or so she tells her bank manager.
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