The Secret (The Scinegue Series Book 1) by S.R. Booth Read Free Book Online Page B

strange all right. I thought maybe he was there today to see if I came back or if someone else got me fired. I figured he probably reported me, and that was why I was called in to see the manager.”
    “What happened with that anyway?”
    “Not much really. Ben was escorted into the office building, and then two big guys came out and took me to a manager’s office.” His voice rose with excitement, “I wish you could see the inside of the building. It was amazing.” He pictured the beautiful ceiling. “Anyway,” he continued, “the manager was kind of strange, but nice overall, and just went over what happened with the trash spilling.”
    Billy looked down and trailed his spoon through his stew. This whole thing was so far out it felt surreal. It was easy to get caught up in the excitement of a mystery with codes and hidden messages, but things like that just didn’t happen. If that paper really contained such important information, it probably wouldn’t have ended up in someone’s home trash.
    Billy shared his thoughts with Sarah. “If this was real, that paper would not have just been floating around. I’m sure something that important would have been shredded, not just thrown away, and certainly not thrown away at someone’s house. It probably would have stayed at the office. At the very least been thrown away there.”
    Sarah put her spoon down, although she’d barely touched her stew. “You know, I found so many websites about that stuff today, I didn’t even begin to go through all of them. How do we know this isn’t just something that was online somewhere that someone printed off?”
    “It’s on Scinegue letterhead,” Billy reminded her.
    “So?” Sarah asked, her voice rising in excitement, a spark of hope in her eyes. “Someone could have just grabbed a piece of paper and stuck it in a printer to print out something they were interested in for whatever reason.”
    “I guess,” Billy replied, clearly considering that idea. “I don’t see why that couldn’t have happened. Someone sees something they want to look at more closely, grabs the nearest piece of paper to print it on.” He shrugged. “It could happen.”
    “So what do we do now? Forget that we went off the deep-end, probably over nothing, and just go on like everything is normal?”
    Billy looked across the table at Sarah with a raised brow. “You know things at work are still pretty strange even if they have nothing to do with this eugenics stuff.”
    “Ugh,” Sarah slouched down in her chair and leaned her head back, closing her eyes. “I forgot about the Scinegue/eugenics connection. There’s no way it’s a coincidence that their name is eugenics spelled backwards. They must have some connection to all of this.”
    “Okay, so maybe they do. That still doesn’t mean the things on that paper are in the works. Or if they are, it doesn’t mean that Scinegue is involved in it. If they are studying eugenics, it would be very likely for someone at the company to print off other people’s opinions on it.” Billy finished his last bite of stew and motioned towards Sarah’s half empty bowl. “Are you finished?”
    Sarah nodded and he gathered their dishes and took them to the kitchen. Sarah followed him, and they fell into their normal routine. This time with Billy washing, Sarah drying and putting everything away, each absorbed in their own thoughts.
    Sarah was the first to break the silence. “Why do you think it is that no one really knows what Scinegue does? Usually a powerful company like that has articles written about them in the paper, or news clips on TV about the great—or terrible—things they’re doing.”
    “Or,” Billy picked up the thread of her thought, “someone knows someone who works there, and they get the whole scoop and pass it on to everyone they know. Nothing is ever kept completely secret. Funny though,” Billy continued, “I actually do work for the company, and I don’t know anything