Page 2 (1/2)

“Aren’t you concerned they’ll find some information to track us down?” Byron asked from behind her as he downed yet another Mountain Dehile watching the screen

“I’ they do,” she said

He nearly choked on his soda “Why in the hell would you want that?”

Closing her eyes, Yas breath For a enius, he had a head full of rocks when it ca formulas

“So they can rescue their friend” She opened her eyes and glanced across the rooh an old copy of Soldier of Fortune “Gidget, honey, are you ready to see your old friends froain?”

Gidget Harreen eyes wonderfully vacant, the pupils dilated “If you say so” She s favor

“Yes, I think it is time But we can’t make it too easy or Bianca won’t ever bite down on that hook” Yasers flew across her keyboard as she executed a series of cora-distance re off the boet, why don’t you come over here and press this?” She pointed to a button on her laptop keyboard

The redhead got up and strolled across the roo next to Yasmin “What will it do?” she asked as she watched the screen Recognition flickered in her eyes

Now co”

Gidget gasped “But Bianca, Vivi, Lexi and Elisa are in there”

Gidget’s hand shook She hesitated over the keyboard Byron forgot the Mountain Dew he’d been guzzling and reached for the little notepad he always kept in his front pocket along with a ballpoint pen and breath mints He scrawled some notes on the pad, no doubt to be entered into his case study about the drug’s effect on human will

Most of the test subjects had lost their individuality within a feeeks Gidget, however, still had moments of resistance Even after six months of almost constant Genie’s Wish doses, she continued to have soht in her It almost made Yasmin admire her—almost

“Press the button, Gidget,” her voice was soft but firot any results other than to have her little Genie’s Wish zombies pee themselves

A look of horror twisting her face, Gidget did as she was told

A set of beeps sounded in the Phoenix house and the boan to count down