Voice by Nikita Spoke Read Free Book Online

sure you stay safe. Cooperate if they get violent. We don’t know how they’ll act if they get desperate. They’re a lot nicer here than they are where Jemma is. It sounds like you don’t have it too bad, either.”
    “Now that we’ve established that,” Jemma sent, “what are we going to do about the fact that the cure is right downstairs?”
     

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    CHAPTER SIX:
    To Converse
     
    Jemma opened her eyes long enough to look at Dr. Harris and Josh, who were paying more attention to the monitor than to her. She closed them again before Jack responded.
    “Any chance you can get to it and… Administer it? Set it free? Whatever it needs?”
    “They keep a guard on me all the time,” she answered. “Even in the bathroom. And that’s on top of the GPS.”
    “Are they making you wear a tracker or something?” asked April.
    “No.” She swallowed. “Josh injected me with one.”
    She felt a surge of anger from Jack. “I know how big even the smallest of those are, Jemma. That has to hurt.”
    “I guess he or a tech person found a way to make it even a little smaller than is usually available, but yes. It’s not exactly comfortable. Short of cutting it out, though, I’m not sure how much I can move around even if I could manage to shake the guards.”
    “What if Heidi helps?”
    “I haven’t seen her since I got back. They’ve been changing out my guard daily, but I don’t think she’s in the normal rotation.”
    “You don’t have just one guard assigned?” asked April. “Mine’s pretty nice to me, usually. He isn’t the one who does the experiments, at any rate, and I don’t think he really likes it.”
    “It’s not like that here at all,” she sent.
    “Things are pretty different here than they were there, Jemma. Even though they know I managed to escape once, they don’t watch me all that closely. I think if I planned it right, I could get out of here. Maybe find the senator again. If he knows the cure is ready, it might be enough to get him to actually try something.”
    “He stopped Talking to me, after he told me how you got taken.” Jemma picked at her nail. “I don’t think he was taken or anything. He was blocking me out. I don’t know what happened to helping us however he could, but something made him change his mind, and he wasn’t even listening.”
    “As long as I can find him, I’ll make him listen,” sent Jack. “I’ll figure it out. I’m not just leaving you in there to deal with this.”
    “You two are adorable.”
    “April, you’ve been held there for months,” sent Jemma. “Do you not take this seriously?”
    “Of course I do. But you two are some whole other class. I mean, you’ve already escaped once. Now you’re talking like you’d be able to escape again if only you didn’t have a GPS tracker in you, which you hadn’t even bothered to mention, and he’s talking like he can get out again no big deal. Meanwhile, I’m trapped here and I don’t think I could get out, and I don’t have it half as bad as it sounds like you do.”
    “If you get out, you’ll still have to avoid family, have to live on the run until this whole thing blows over. Are you prepared to deal with that?” sent Jack. “If so, we’ll try to help, if we can.”
    April was quiet when she answered. “No. Like I said, I’m safe enough in here. Escaping doesn’t sound safe. I’ll try it if things change.”
    “It’ll be easier to get out of here, anyway,” sent Jack. “I’m pretty sure this place hasn’t gotten the memo about the cure. Most of it is just laboratories, the kind that study formulas and stuff rather than people. There aren’t many of us ‘subjects’ here, and even fewer guards. Getting out is going to be a lot easier than the first time, I think. At least once a day, there’s just one guard to cover all of us, and we come pretty close to an outside door. Depending how far I am from the city and whether Pratt’s still