36. Chapter Thirty-Six
Chapter Thirty-Six
X
Hutton
R elaying what I think the words in the video mean, Matt nods along. I tell him to go as I'm taking a few steps back into the lab to get the tablet and note. “Are you sure?” he asks.
“That has to be what he meant. Go, I’m right behind you. Go get Weston.”
I run through the door with an arm out to grab the tablet and leave, but the door slams shut behind me.
The trap was set, if I had to guess, long before I came back here.
This is what was always going to happen.
Camp Carroll…the beginning and end. They knew I would never leave the building without finding out who is behind it all. That my unquenched rage over taking my son would cloud my judgement.
The tablet is no longer there…Someone was in the room with us. Watching us.
Did Matt make it out, or was it all a tease?
Not giving up, I push and kick at the door. Grabbing one of the metal carts, I smash it against the door. A digitized voice comes over the speaker system in the room. “It’s no use, X.”
I haven’t been called that since I met Eden six years ago when she saw me as a person instead of a product to be used.
“Who are you? A coward? Show your face, at least.” I try to keep my voice emotionless, but it’s pointless. Whether I draw on years of programming or let emotion take over, they have a plan that nothing I say will change.
“You’ll know soon enough.” The speaker crackles as it cuts off.