The Perfects by Raven D.L

Author:Raven, D.L. [Raven, D.L.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: The Perfects
Publisher: amazon.com
Published: 2017-04-23T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Ashley pulled a face when Ian took my hand, but I pretended not to notice. I couldn’t even focus on how good it felt for him to admit his feelings for me. We were under a deadline to keep our humanity, and we needed to find a way out of the building. The quicker we did, the quicker we’d be able to find a safe place outside of this facility.

I shook my head, jumbling my thoughts. How different I’d felt days ago. Edgewood Institute had filled my mind for months leading up to my birthday. And now that we knew what was going on here, I wanted nothing more than to leave with my humanity intact.

What was the purpose of turning teenagers into robots? Was that the real point of coming here? Why? Ian couldn’t be the only one who realized that his brother was different. Why bother with any of it?

Were we a part of an experiment? The entire program had been a fraud. How could these scientists do this to unwilling participants?

Marcus was right to assume this was a story out of a science fiction novel. No one would ever guess that a career driven institute would be returning electronic teens back to their homes.

The sound of metal on metal broke through my thoughts and shot me back to the present.

Ian and I turned to Ashley.

She’d kicked over a piece of metal piping. She stared down at it.

“Ashley?” Ian asked.

She grabbed the piece of pipe and held it by her side. “Let’s keep going.”

Her normal attitude was hidden under the surface. Whether it was because of the situation we were in, or the fact that Ian had apparently chosen me. We didn’t have the time to discuss. Getting out was our primary objective. Even though it seemed it would be the hardest one to accomplish.

We walked down aisles of large metallic equipment. I had no idea what any of it did, but I assumed it took a lot of energy to keep a facility like Edgewood running. At random times, the mechanics would kick on and scare me half to death.

At least if the Perfects were after us, it would take some time for them to find us.

We reached the back of the room and were faced with two options of where to turn. The length of the room stretched out on either side of us.

“Let’s go that way,” Ian said pointing to our left. He turned around and faced the direction we came from. “Going the other way would bring us parallel with the hallway we were in.”

“What if the exit is that way?” Ashley said, indicating the right.

As much as her argumentative nature annoyed me, we truly had no idea where an exit might be if there was any.

“We shouldn’t split up,” I added.

“We won’t,” Ian said.

We lost the rest of our group each time we split up. That wouldn’t happen again. We were already at a terrible disadvantage and losing one of us at this point would make the odds even worse.

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