Chapter Three
Despite my hunger, I found myself completely distracted by Valerie’s story of her origin. I was so distracted, in fact, that I barely paid attention to the hallways we walked down. All I really did was follow Valerie, who knew the layout of the safe house better than me and so would make sure we didn’t get lost.
It had to be one of the most twisted stories I’d ever heard. I knew that Mastermind was evil, but I didn’t know he was depraved. Uploading a girl’s mind to a computer and then deleting it, just so he could have her body to himself … it made me shiver with disgust. That wasn’t the Dad I knew, but Mastermind was clearly not the Dad I knew, either.
Valerie’s story got me worrying about the Tara back in my universe. As far as I knew, she was safe, but what if Mastermin
