“He was Team Regime when we got to the island, but once he saw what the experiments were doing to people, he changed his mind.”
This room is cool and comfortable, so it has to be air-conditioned. Cress is wearing pink nail polish. Their clothes are clean. Every detail tells me this island is more than it seems.
“And what about you?” Cress asks.
“I was on McClain’s team of scientists. We created aromium, the compound being used on my island. I also changed my mind because of what aromium was doing to people.”
The man, physically fit with inked-up arms, a short beard and shoulder-length brown hair, just watches me, not saying a word.
“Where are the rest of the scientists?” Cress asks.
No reason to lie about it. “Dead.”
“Cause of death?”
“They tried to go back to the mainland in a sub and the sub didn’t make it.”
She’s not giving a thing away with her expression or mannerisms. But I don’t like being on this side of the table. I prefer to be the one asking the questions instead of the one answering them.
“You’re with the ILF?” I ask.
“What makes you think that?”
“Evander told me.”
“Yes, we’re with the ILF.”
“You know who Olin is?”
She nods. “We’ve had very minimal contact with him, but yes. How is he?”
“He’s good.”
“What about Virginia Marsden?”
I drop my brows a notch. “What about her?”
“How is she?”
“Dead.”
“Cause of death?”
I shift in my chair, aggravated. “Choking. How long are you planning to ask me questions you already know the answers to?”
The man beside her crosses his arms. Cress’s lips quirk almost imperceptibly.
“What are your plans for your island?”
I scoff. “Stay alive. We didn’t know there was a way for us to leave until McClain died and that video came up about the sub.”
“Are you fighting Rising Tide?”
“As much as we can. I was starving them out, but then the New America pricks sent a human tank to Rising Tide and he kidnapped one of my people. I had to give up supplies to get her back.”
Seth comes back in the room with a glass pitcher of ice water and three upside-down glasses on a tray. He sets it on the table.
They have ice cubes. Unreal.
