Beauty & The Beast (Book 1)

94. Come back

JT is just sitting there on a chair, arms crossed, looking in awe at Tyler.
"You really think it's too difficult to recreate a cure?"

Tyler shrugs and smiles, "Less difficult with me."

A police siren goes off outside and JT turns to look out the window. Behind him, Tyler is fiddling with the heater's pipes. She has been keeping JT talking about science and nonsense while she worked on getting free. He was easy to distract. He sits back down and she stops rolling the pipe.

"So tell me JT, what was your first big breakthrough?" she lifts a brow flirtatiously.

"Irregularities in Glycholosis," he says proudly.

"Nice!" Wow, that's actually impressive.. "You know, I never landed on respiration. I was always focused on Nucureotic Cell Structure so I never was looking at behaviors."

"Oh it took months! Because Vincent's samples actually didn't display that many differences..." Tyler nods as he looks at his hands, while she rolls the pipe out more. "Then I started to notice an alternate pattern in the ETC and...Bam!" JT laughs and lifts his shoulders.

"Nice," she giggles. "Feels good right? Whenever you have one of those 'Eureka!' moments?"

"You're the one who figured out this pill slash cure," JT shakes his head and laughs again, still in awe of her. She inclines her head shyly, smiling.

"Truth?" He nods. "I just took a synthesized version of the pills that Gabe had been taking since he was a child and I altered them according to some research I stole from Muirfield."

Oh my God, if she weren't evil I might actually marry her... "Hmm," JT hums and then chuckles.

"Sometimes you wonder how you ended up in all this right?"

"I used to think running for science club president was a challenge."

Tyler giggles. "So how does this work?" she asks after a moment. "Am I deprived of all food and water?"
The pipe was loose, it was time.

"Oh!" JT jumps and gets up. "Uhm, selection's not great..." He walks closer. "We've got beer and - " Tyler stands and hits JT across the face with the pipe. She steps over him walks over to the handcuff key.

"Sorry, survival of the fittest," she says and unlocks herself. "You understand." She finishes unlocking herself and then cuffs JT to the same heater before she runs out.

*

Tyler takes a taxi back to her own car and when she gets out of it, she stops dead in her tracks. No.
"You..." She shakes her head. "Please..." She begs and holds her hands up when Reynolds points a gun with a silencer at her. "No..." She starts to say but he shoots and her last "No!" hangs in the air as he shoots two more times and then walks away from her.

*

Vincent has scaled his first wall. He was sitting on it, looking around the courtyard, counting how many men there were standing guard. He only saw two, so he climbed over and jumped the wall.
He creeps up quietly behind the man staring up at the mansion's roof, and hits him with a gun. The man drops to the ground and Vincent looks up to where he saw the man looking before.
It was the tallest tower of the mansion. Of course, Gabe has to be that douchebag who puts the princess in the highest room of the tallest tower...

*

Tess walks into the clubhouse, gun ready and looking around.

"Little help?" JT calls from across the room and she sighs, seeing him sitting against the wall, blood coming from his head and cuffed.