Chapter 20 — The Subject Who Chose
The words on the screen refused to disappear.
SUBJECT 05 — VICTORIA REYES
SUBJECT 04 — ELENA REYES
SUBJECT 06 — SEBASTIAN RIVAS
And beneath them—
WELCOME BACK, VICTORIA.
Victoria stared at the screen, her heart pounding.
“No,” she whispered.
Sebastian stepped closer. “Victoria?”
She raised a hand.
“Don't.”
He stopped immediately.
Victoria's eyes remained fixed on the screen.
Something was wrong.
Not with the names.
With the numbers.
She remembered the childhood memories. The white rooms. The machines. Elena holding her hand. Sebastian standing beside her.
But she didn't remember being called Subject Five.
She remembered something else.
A number.
Three.
A small black number written on the inside of a metal door.
Three-one-three-four.
