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“That’s for comparison’s sake,” he continued “That square is a wirelessly controlled h the blood stream We think the controller was in that device Yas clicker The microchip is three millimeters by four millimeters and can be steered by the controller toward the brain stem Once there, it sends out electrical i your body what to do while at the sa The initial tests showed that a se of the test subjects had adverse reactions, including death”

Her blood turned to ice “I gave Taz two full doses Is he going to die?”

“We don’t know” Vivi hurried over to the bedside and took Bianca’s claood They sedated hi to be under Yasone but there are so many variables about how Genie’s Wish works that we don’t know, like the effective distance of the wireless controller”

It just kept getting worse She’d never be able to forgive herself God knew Taz would never forgive her “So she’ll always be able to just turn it on and control us if she’s close enough?”

“No” Clay shook his head “That was one of their two biggest frustrations with version three, according to their files One, they haven’t been able to make the non-microchipped version two addictive Two, the microchip in version three is only viable for twenty-four hours That’s why they had to continually shoot up Gidget”

Poor Gidget Yasmin had held her prisoner forany lingering effect of Genie’s Wish Gidget was strong though, and she had her girls frouys on the tea a wo it took, she’d have it

“Where is she?” Bianca asked

“She went straight to a military hospital in Hawaii Lexie, Elisa and Marko are with her,” Vivi said “She was unconscious after Marko had to shoot her to save Taz and she’d been injected with so much Genie’s Wish since s

he’d been kidnapped that we needed her in a secure location while she detoxes No one knohat she’ll be like when she wakes up”

“But Taz will be waking up soon” She couldn’t shake the feeling that there wasback

Clay and Vivi exchanged a look

“We don’t know,” he said “But we hope so”

Gritting her teeth against the expected pain, Bianca tossed back the sheet and pivoted so her legs dangled over the edge of the bed “I’ to be there when he does”

“You’re still recovering,” Clay countered,to stand directly in front of her in an attempt to block her way “You need to stay here”

That wasn’t going to happen