Child of Recklessness (Trials of Strength Book 2) Read Free

pulled
from our attacker’s pocket. That was it.
    ‘ Bonnie,’ I said.
    Bonnie
had been one of my father’s henchmen, in this case henchwoman.
Intelligent, deadly and having an obsessive love of the colour
violet, Bonnie had been ambiguous at best. We thought in the
beginning she worked solely for my Dad, but she saved me from his
men, and tried to stop the town from being destroyed. However after
that failed she tried to murder me with only a syringe, letting
slip in that moment her allegiance to someone else, someone who had
no qualms over my death.
    ‘ Chris,’ I said. ‘The man today, the syringe, in his pocket,
when Bonnie attacked me she had a syringe and we know she didn’t
truly work for my Dad.’
    Chris
shrugged.
    ‘ Whoever she worked for obviously wanted me dead, but, I think
I know what else they want.’
    ‘ What?’ Anna said.
    ‘ The only thing that can be described as something good that
came out of that town,’ Chris said as the gears in his mind turned.
‘They want your DNA. A sample of your blood might do.’
    I
nodded. It was simple. Someone else wanted what my father created.
The drug itself would be useless, with it being highly unlikely to
succeed. So whoever was after us wanted me, or a sample of me, the
one person who overcame the concoction and gained incredible new
powers while retaining their sanity. Theoretically, my blood, my
DNA could hold the key of perfecting the unstable drug my father
made, guaranteeing someone the same abilities as I had. People had
killed for much less.
    ‘ Great, so not only do we have the madman that destroyed our
families and lives to find, but there’s another group after us as
well?’ Anna sighed and sat down too. ‘Awesome.’
    I felt
deflated. All we’d done to escape Greystone, the choices,
sacrifices, and we had only just begun the fight for our lives.
Chris finally got up and without a word, headed into the bathroom.
I heard the shower turn on, and I made my way over to the bed and
sat next to Anna, wrapping an arm around her. I wondered whether to
bring up her new condition after a while, but Chris came out of the
bathroom with clean clothes on and a fresh bandage covering the new
gash on his head.
    Anna
went next. Chris and I debated on where we should go next, but
neither of us really knew. We understood we had to leave Redburn,
the city we had sought refuge in after Greystone, but then
where?
    ‘ For now we just have to keep moving,’ Chris said. ‘Soon the
police are gonna be looking for us, and it’s only a matter of time
before they find us, especially if we’re trapped in this
city.’
    ‘ When do we leave?’ I asked.
    ‘ Now, if we can. After Anna’s finished up, get yourself tidied
up and we’ll move somewhere less populated and we can plan our next
move.’
    I nodded
and stood. Chris left to get the car ready, and as soon as Anna was
done, I got started. I let the warm water attempt to wash away all
that had happened, but dirt like that would never wash away, not
until we completed our mission. I couldn’t figure out what my
father’s endgame was. He was no longer employed by the government,
who may or may not be looking for him too, so what did he plan to
get from this? Why go to the lengths he had to perfect something he
let slip from his grasp?
    I tried
to focus on other thoughts, but the only other one I could pull up
was Anna. What would we do now? Anna was pregnant, I was sure of
it, but could we bring a child into our world? A world where a
mystery group wanted us dead and my father probably had some deadly
plans for us in the near future?
    I wished
more than anything for the simple life I had before.
    ‘ You okay, Lucas?’ Anna said from beyond the door.
    I had
been watching the water turn red with blood and swirl away, but it
ran clear now.
    ‘ Yeah, I’ll be two minutes,’ I replied.
    I have to tell her.
    I
stepped from the shower and dried off. I checked the mirror and
observed my haggard appearance. My