Escape From Dinosauria (Dinopocalypse Book 1) by Vincenzo Bilof, Max Booth III Read Free Book Online Page B

or what I’m here to do, then I have to wonder why you’re so interested all of a sudden.”
    Jordan had never pulled his reputable cold comment on her; she had heard him do it over the phone and had seen him do it in interviews, but never to her. Staring at him, standing there. Doing nothing. Saying nothing.
    Round one goes to Jordan Vance.
    Or was it round two? She had been trained to deal with physical disorientation but had always been in control. Every fight, crowd roaring in her head, sweat crawling down her back. She was in control. Every time. She didn’t need to know what round it was. If she wanted to know, then she was in deep shit.
    How she handled arguments with lovers: she didn’t.
    Wayne stepped in. “Look at these brochures. This has been a long time in the making.”
    DINOSAURS AND THE NEW CONSUMER ECONOMY
    THE NEW WAVE OF GENETICS WILL FEED THE HUNGRY
    ANTI-AGING TREATMENTS AND AUGMENTATIONS
    THE CURE FOR CANCER IS A RAPTOR AWAY
    FOOD REPLICATION AND HUNTERS’ RIGHTS
    CARE AND FEEDING OF YOUR NEW FRIEND
    LEGALIZING AUTOMATIC WEAPONS: THE LATEST IN MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT
    Jamie picked up the last one and flipped through it, scanning pictures of smiling people with huge guns standing over dinosaur corpses. She stopped on a picture of a man wearing a Carhartt hat with his arm around a little girl’s shoulders. Both of them wore camo gear, and at their feet was a very large dead dinosaur, long red tongue hanging out of its mouth.
    She carefully closed the brochure. It felt heavy in her hands.
    Hunting animals with big guns could make people happy.
    Before she could open it again and look at the picture of the supposed daddy-daughter hunter duo, a familiar voice snapped her head around.
    Kresevich, the Dos Equis reject, was featured on a large television screen. His collared shirt was open on his chest, and he wore a used car salesman smile on his face.
    “The wonders of science have transformed our world dramatically in the past two hundred years.” A montage of scenes played out behind him: atomic bomb explosion, a baby in an incubator, a before/after comparison of a woman who was once obese and had become a beautiful supermodel with massive breasts and a nearly invisible stomach, an advertisement for Viagra, an astronaut walking on the moon, a bald woman smiling while sitting up in a hospital bed. More images behind Kresevich while he talked. “The next miracle of the modern world is here, and the human race will never be the same.”
    When Jamie saw the image of the child riding in a saddle on the back of a huge dinosaur that she recognized as a Triceratops , the headache behind her eyes suddenly fired a more intense burst of pain into her skull. The creature’s armored head was adorned with namesake three horns; two jutting from near the top of its shield-head, and the other upon its nose.
    Kresevich droned on about new possibilities in bio-technology, and all she could think about was the picture in the brochure with the man around a little girl’s shoulders, dead monster at their feet, rifles in their hands.
    She glanced around the lobby and found resort maps, cab schedules, a bar, an auditorium, an event center. She walked away from Wayne and Jordan farther down the lobby and felt drunk, nearly swaying on her feet. She hadn’t felt this punchy since the first time she stepped in the cage. The recent fight with Amanda Decker and her next match against Cindy the Leaf felt like dreams or ideas she couldn’t hold on to. The tough fighter who stepped into the cage with Decker and injured her spine was another person; it wasn’t Jamie Rock. Jamie Rock had her shit together.
    “Wayne,” she said, “I want to go to my room.”
    When she turned around to see Wayne coming toward her, Jordan had entered the pet store and was making casual conversation with whomever he could talk to. His broad, smiling face really pissed her off.
     
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    As people settled into their seats around the race track,