Chapter 60

When I awoke a couple of hours later, I found myself bound to a desk chair in what appeared to be one of the Senesco laboratories.The overhead lights made my head throb, but I still made out the sky blue walls, the gleaming metal equipment, and the room's overall white sterility. The holo clock on the wall opposite from where I sat told me the time, 10 p.m., past my bedtime.I glanced down at my wrists, bound like my ankles in tight nylon straps.Someone had relieved me of my comlink unit so there went my chance to record any pertinent conversations with my kidnappers.I didn't have long to wait for the dynamic duo of Dalton and Renata to return, this time dressed casually.How nice.They had gone home to change.

"How do you feel, detective?" Hendricks asked in a surprisingly gentle tone.

"I've been better," I said, tonelessly.