Inevitable // Zach Mitchell // [2]

Chapter Seven

"I can't believe I'm locked in a cell with Claire Dearing! Like being in jail is crazy enough but being here with Claire? Wow!" I say while sitting on the ground of the cell that we are all currently locked in.

Zach sighs, "You're not in jail Dani, you haven't been arrested."

"Whatever okay? I'm still counting it as being in jail, I gotta brag about something when we get out of here." I laugh.

"If we get out." Claire whispers.

After being captured by Wheatley, some of his men threw us in this cell which appears to be in the basement of the Lockwood Manor.

"Hi Claire" a voice sounds from the cell door.

The man who spoke continues to speak about how sorry he is, but is interrupted by Claire advancing toward him and then trying to grab him through the bars. This must be Eli Mills. Claire told me about him at the office that day she got back from her meeting. Mills runs Benjamin Lockwood's affairs for him.

My brother lifts Claire off the bars and walks forward.

I notice that Wheatley is also standing outside the cell.

"So what? This is it? I mean, you're a smart guy, you could've started a foundation, cured cancer but instead you what? Sell endangered species?" Owen remarks.

"I save these animals!" Mills retorts back.

Zach scoffs beside me.

Claire places her hands on her hips, "You betrayed a dying man for money."

"Claire, I admire your idealism but we both exploited these animals, at least I have the integrity to admit it." Mills says while walking along the cell bars.

Claire tries to object but Eli interrupts her, "You authorized the creation of the Indominus Rex. You exploited a living thing in a cage for money. How is that different?"

I take a glance at Wheatley and he's staring right at me. He's seething with anger. His nose is completely busted and both his eyes look dark due to the bruising.

Eli walks over to stand in front of Owen, "And you, the man who proved raptors can follow orders; you never thought about the applications of your research Owen? How many millions a trained predator might be worth?"

"You two, you're the parents of the new world." Eli says as he steps forward, his body almost touching the bars. Big mistake.

Quick as a flash, my brother grabs his right arm and twists it outward against one of the bars. Mills yelps while Wheatley raises a handgun and orders for Mills to be released.

Claire and I move toward my brother.

"Owen!" Claire says nervously, obviously wanting him to let Mills go unharmed.

Owen smirks, "I think I'll break it."

"Do it." I say while staring directly into Mills' eyes. My anger is really taking over right now.

Zach places a hand on my shoulder and turns me around. He looks at me with worried eyes. Me being so eager to see a man's arm get snapped in half must really be scaring him.

I take a breath in an effort to calm down.

I look back and see my brother reluctantly let Mills go.

However as soon as he does, Claire reaches through the bars, grabs Mills by his tie and pulls him hard against the steel. He smacks his face and breaks his glasses.

Owen, Zach and I let out a few chuckles.

"What now?" Wheatley asks Mills.

Mills adjusts his suit jacket, "Well as far as everybody else is concerned they burned up on the island."