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Chapters (23)
  1. PART 1
  2. CHAPTER 1
  3. CHAPTER 2
  4. CHAPTER 3
  5. CHAPTER 4
  6. CHAPTER 5
  7. CHAPTER 6
  8. CHAPTER 7
  9. CHAPTER 8
  10. CHAPTER 9
  11. PART 2
  12. CHAPTER 10
  13. CHAPTER 11
  14. CHAPTER 12
  15. CHAPTER 13
  16. CHAPTER 14
  17. PART 3
  18. CHAPTER 15
  19. CHAPTER 16
  20. CHAPTER 17
  21. CHAPTER 18
  22. CHAPTER 19
  23. CHAPTER 20

“Were you two having a tea party down there or something?” She was quiet for a very long time, thinking it over. “That’s impossible. It was an illicit project back during the Cold War, and it got shut down, and shut down hard. We do certain clandestine things, but restarting that would be so illegal it isn’t even funny. Our boss might test the limits, but he wouldn’t do that . . .” She trailed off. “No way. Even dabbling in that could jeopardize the Task Force’s existence. You’ve only seen the bad, but in the big picture, we’ve done a lot of good. We’ve saved a lot of American lives and prevented some horrible things from happening. I can’t imagine that our boss would risk throwing all of that away.”

“Beth, I have to know. What the hell is Nemesis?”

“Something you should never ask about again. For your own safety, Kerkonen, we never had this conversation. I’m going to forget all about this.” She slid out of the booth and stood up. “I’d suggest you do the same.” Beth began walking away.

Heather called after her, “What if he was telling the truth?”

Beth stopped, started walking again, then stopped, and swore under her breath, before turning back. “I’ll talk to my husband. We’ll look into it, I promise.”

“How can I help?”

“This needs to be done discreetly. I’ve read your file. I don’t think you know what that word means, so you don’t do anything. I’ll be in touch.” Beth left in a hurry.

“I can be discreet,” Heather muttered. She had no idea if she’d just done the right thing or not. Oh well . . . Either Beth would rat her out, or she wouldn’t. In the meantime, she was going to find out what Nemesis really was.

PART 2

PART 2

The Deal

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 10

I wandered in the forest, incoherent with pain. It took time for my ancient spirit to mesh with my new body enough to exercise reason.

My first conscious thought was that I was dying. The body was broken. I had damaged it during my rampage. My next was that I did not want to go back to Hell where I belonged. My memories were damaged, but I knew that much for certain.

Mortals had to eat. I was mortal now. So I chased down a deer, broke its spine, and ate some of its raw flesh. Obviously that did not help my sucking chest wound, but I had only been alive for a few hours so I didn’t know any better.

So this was life? I hated it too.

Gradually weakening, my run turned into a walk, then I fell and crawled through the mud until dawn. I was nearly overcome with blood loss as the sun rose over the horizon. I had never looked upon such a thing with eyes before.

I was moved.