I drove up to the Reid's house as I shut off my bike's engine. Effie had texted me that they were all back home. It was already past bedtime, and I planned to pick up Poppy and take us home, but it seemed too late. I just had a talk with Odin about the hidden laboratory and concocted Eva's plan for using the drug. Odin had sent out scouts to check out Paradise Island.Five went in. Zero came out.We had lost visual and audio contact with the scout team. The last image was a person; Kendall had it closed up, and high-quality footage, as we saw, didn't look human. It had crazy bloody eyes and foam coming out from its mouth, and it attacked one of our team who had the camera. It was the same symptoms as Myles. Before the camera could lose visual, we saw not one but lots of them. It's the reason why the scout team lost their lives. It was a tragic scene to watch. It's like watching a horror film.A lot has happened within a day, and I want to get home to my daughter and man. I must rest m

As the lift door opened, my eyes tried to adjust to the darkness of the secret lab. The only light source we had was the light of the lift."Lights on," I command.I switched on my head's light strap as I stepped forward. My boots stepped on broken glass, followed by crunching sounds behind me, led by Gunnar and Kendall. I check my surroundings, always being cautious, aiming my gun at wide-open spaces of the lab. This place seems more extensive than on video."Fuck, this place is a total wreck," Gunnar proclaims. "It's like a hurricane hit here.""Kendall, got on a reading?" I ask her.Her infrared gadget tells us it is beeping if anybody is done here. "I see four live bodies, but they are strapped on the other side of that door straight ahead.""There are more?" Gunnar says softly.We approached forward towards a keycard door. I stepped back, let Gunnar implant a C4 paste on the handle, and pressed the button. As we took a step back a few feet while the bomb beeps, it gave out a soun

I glance back at the picture, and I can see the hate my mother put so much to cross an X over her father's face. It must have broken her heart once he told her she was nothing. I always felt that while I was in the Order. I was nothing but a pawn, an item to be used however they pleased. They didn't treat me as a person. I took one small picture and stuck it inside the back pocket of my jeans, then put the rest back inside the folder. I handed it back to Dr. Swanson. "What about the birth certificate I found?" I pull out the paper from my pocket and hand it to him. The older man unfolded it, made a glance, and handed it back. "I had it classified in the system before I erased it to give you an authentic document." I fold the paper back into my pocket and sigh. "How did she find out her lover is also her father?" I ask as he takes the Manila folder back. "She already knew." My brows furrow at his response. "She knew?" Dr. Swanson nodded. "Then...my mother fell in love with him

I speed down the freeway, heading to Long Beach. I slurve and pass a few cars around after midnight at full speed.Looking at the rearview mirror, I noticed a black car following me behind. It has been tailing me ever since I merged into the freeway. I was being paranoid at first, thinking the car was going in a fast lane, but it's been following me.I can't have it follow me home.I twist my wrist, increasing the speed of my bike. I turn my head and see the black car closing in on me."Shit," I grit my teeth. "Damn Order."I knew they would be following me. The signal from the island had triggered a security system to their base.I increased the speed of my bike just a bit so I could continue the road on the freeway. Minutes later, the car sped up and was on my right. I look, and the window on the passenger seat opens as an Order member in a mask to hide their identity pulls himself out with a gun.With one hand, I grab his wrist, trying to point it away as I struggle to stabilize my

I release a shaky breath and see him still angry, so I continue the most meaningful excuse. "When we finally got something, Kendall had to download a file off their computer.""What's in the file?" He says with an aggravated sigh.That's good. He seems interested. "Well, it's a list of the older children they have kidnapped and made them inject the drug. The one they used on Myles. Then...Kendall found a hidden folder." I look up at him as my chest feels heavy and aches, not from the pain from my leg, though it still fucking hurts and still feels sore all over my body from the fight."You wouldn't believe what was in that folder," I scoff and continue. I sniffle, remove the folded paper from my bra, and hand it to him.He lifts a brow at my way of carrying things and takes it. Seth unfolds the sheet of paper; his eyes widen, and he glances my way. "It's your birth certificate." I nod. "You found this in their computer?"I nodded again and replied, "Yes.""The father's name is not here