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He presses a button on the center console and takes control of the steering wheel The car speeds up and suddenly whips around a corner I grip Ada across the seat, and he puts an ar at hio And he doesn’t either

“Man, they sure don’t h

The car takes another sharp turn, tires squealing on the wet pave aroundlike a ain, I’ away frouilty

“Sorry,” I say again I’ up in this hot car Orat me, like he wants to kiss ht, I’d better put it back in automatic before the police coain The car slon and Ada at us, and I want to juet this moment ever happened I pull away from Adam and try to move off his lap to escape his eyes and his lips and the heat between us Zoe atteets an inch closer to Trent, who’s already slao

“Colare at hi this on purpose “Relax, we’re already here”

The Aether Corporation building is iranite walls and sleek, silver s reflecting the dark, cloudy sky The car takes us down into an underground parking structure and parks itself in a spot labeled RESERVED: ADAM O’NEILL The doors unlock and Future-Adam jumps out to open the door for us

“Sorry about that,” he says and offers a hand to helphi there” But he just set out

Future-Adam leads us past rows of parked driverless cars to an elevator with the Aether logo As alk, he pulls so out of his pocket that looks like a thickat the end and buttons along the side He presses one of the buttons, and the light switches froreen

“What’s that?” Ada devices within a twenty-foot radius” He hands the device to his younger self, who begins to study it

“Why do we need that?” I ask Isn’t he working for Aether? Will they be expecting us?

“I don’t want Aether’s ca us”

Adam examines the jammer and then hands it back “It looks like a sonic screwdriver frorins at hined the flexis”

“You rong,” Trent est nerd here”

“And now there are two of them,” Chris says

I shake my head as we step into the elevator The two Ada peeks at his older self It’s freaky seeing the how similar they look, except for the thirty years added to the future version

“Why do you still wear glasses?” Adam asks his older self “Flexis can auto-correct your vision, right?”

“A girl once told lasses But you need to pay attention” Future-Adam checks his watch, and I’m surprised to see it’s the same twenty-four-hour watch we all have on now He kept it all these years

The door opens, but he blocks us with his arm so we can’t exit “Get ready to run” He peers outside the elevator, then checks his watch again “Wait…wait for it…”

People in suits enter in a huge group fro doors and head to the front desk where a security guard is waiting They crowd around, co our view of the desk