Axiom Theory: Book Four of the Shadow Series by J.M. Pierce Read Free Book Online

voice.
    With his arms behind his head and eyes closed, Casper replied lazily. “Nope.”
    Ashley reached out with her left hand and gripped the front of the foot rest with her energy , tilting it forward until it touched the floor. Casper jumped up from the chair.
    “What the hell’s the matter with you?” he shouted.
    Ashley stood and grabbed his arm, pulling him close to her.
    “He’s getting his powers,” she said with gritted teeth while staring him straight in the eye. “I saw his energy.”
    Casper looked at her with a blank expression. “So? It’s about time, right?”
    The two of them had expected Destin’s powers to come in much sooner. The reason that their fallen leader had wanted Test so badly was because his powers had come to him while he was still in the crib. With little Destin being a clone, they’d assumed that everything would play out in his life as it had in Test’s.
    Ashley pushed Casper back and into the recliner. “You’re worthless. You know that?”
    Ignoring his sister, Casper simply leaned back in the chair and resumed the position he was in before he was so rudely interrupted.
    Tired of her brother’s lackadaisical attitude, she picked up the groceries from the floor and went to the kitchen to put them away.
    As she emptied the bags, she couldn’t help but think of how agonizing their lives had become since Destin had arrived. More importantly, she fantasized about what he’d become.
     
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    After learning about the government’s capture of Test, both Ashley and Casper had become fearful about what the humans had possibly learned from him. The Reaper’s numbers had once made it so that they had no fears—no worries. Now that it was just the two of them, it was fear that sent them to the government facility.
    Locating the facilities whereabouts wasn’t as difficult as they’d originally thought it would be. They were aware of the agent that had been tracking Test, Agent Dawson, and under the stealth of walking in the spirit realm, entered his home and found documents that gave clues to its location.
    Their ent ry into the compound was simple, however, finding the right section of the building proved to be difficult. The energy required to spend long periods of time on the other side was exhaustive, and they had to abandon the fact finding adventure on the first trip. Having eliminated a good portion of the building on the first, the second visit proved to be monumental.
    The original plan had been to sneak in, collect what information the government had accumulated, and then destroy it. Ashley was shocked to find, within the cordoned off section in the lower levels of the building, an infant. This infant had a wrist band that read “Ghost: PG15”. The infant rested inside of what looked like a large incubator. Hanging on the side of the apparatus was a clipboard. She glanced at the top and read:
     
    PROJECT GHOST
    SUBJECT: PG15
    DONOR: TEST DAVIS
     
    A chill went through her as she came to the realization that the “ghost” portion was referring to a Shadow. Part of her wanted to giggle at the irony, but the thought that the humans may know what they were was sobering.
    The two of them quickly decided that they would leave and plan a third visit. This visit would be different from their original plan in that they would take the child. They knew that if this child had any portion of Test Davis’s DNA, that the chances of him having his power was there. Should he gain a Shadow’s powers, and they were able to mold him as a Reaper, their dominance could once again return.
    Taking the child was as easy as breathing for them. They simply phased, walked in, phased back i nto the human world, disabled any surveillance in the room, and promptly destroyed anything and everything that could contain any information on Test. From there, Ashley took the child into her arms, phased to the spirit world, and rushed out of the building. Having taken so many lives in this manner,