Specialchem Novels & Stories

“I’ve got the spare key. Just wait here.” I turned and walked back toward the junction, keeping my steps normal. No running. Breathing even. I counted them in my head. Twelve to the lab door, three more to the supply cabinet on the south wall. I’d noticed the silver-alloy fire extinguisher in there my first week, because I notice stuff like that. Silver alloy does something specific to wolves and to workings. Disrupts them the way salt messes with electricity. I grabbed it off the shelf. Walked back to the junction.

Elara The door of the Velvet Sin closes behind me with a dull click, muffled by the heavy bass beat vibrating the floor beneath my stiletto heels. Two minutes. Two damn minutes late, and already, I feel their gaze on me, his gaze above all. The air is thick, heavy with the smell of sweat, leather, and that sickeningly sweet cheap perfume the submissives spray on themselves before getting on all fours. The dim lights, blood red and electric purple, draw shifting shadows over the packed bodies, some already naked, others still clad in latex or lace, waiting their turn. I don't have time to adjust my dress—a piece of black silk slit to the hip, barely held by a studded leather belt—when his han

She looked very interested in what I had to say, thinking maybe I was going to share but I didn’t want to disclose anything further. “So…. what is it?” She asked me with so much interest in her eyes. "It's... a mating stick, the Lunara’s splice….don’t you have it over there?” I explained, dropping it back to the floor and using the vacuum cleaner to suck it up and make it vanish. "It's meant to bind two mates together." She didn’t say a word but knit her brows, giving a familiar, baffled shrug. "That's odd... Everything is so different here," she murmured looking around.

"They’re using thermal charges on the door hinge!" "Push the red lever!" Pim commanded, bracing her shoulder against the primary conduit. "Once the circuit breaks, the local storage wipes automatically. It’s designed to prevent corporate espionage. It’s a self-destruct mechanism." "We’re going to burn the whole damn thing," Chalida whispered, a strange, hysterical laugh bubbling up in her throat. She found the lever, her hand hovering over the cold steel. "You know, for all our genius, we were just kids playing with a loaded gun, weren't we?"