The calm of the site, antithesis to the chaos of his emotions and the nefarious undertakings hidden beneath was hard to process, especially as he continued to struggle with what he’d let Ray convince him to do. After hours in the truck, Steve still hadn’t come to terms with what he’d done.
While Ray put the truck in park and climbed out into the evening shadows, Steve floated away on a burst of disassociation.
The tick of the engine cooling lulled him further while his mind walled him off from dealing with the next step. He couldn’t accept what they were there to do. Wouldn’t. Not once had a subject lived through the protocol. Not once had any brought here left without a body bag.
tickA tap on his window snapped Steve’s head.
“Hey, you alright?”
Shocked back to reality and the plan th
