Previous Chapter
Related Chapters
His Biggest Secret Chapter 81
The neighborhood was only beginning to wake as he made his way through it. He forced a smile onto his face as he nodded to the ladies walking their dogs. He saw a busier street up ahead. Behind him, he heard sirens going by. Now all he needed was to find a place to flag down a cab. He shuddered. OK, maybe he should speak to someone about what he'd just witnessed too. He increased the speed of his walk. *********** Xiong hiked to the top of the mountain behind his village once a week to visit the shrine he built on the plateau. He kept it tidy, did a little sweeping, replaced the incense and candles, and when necessary did some repairs on the small structure. He would have loved to have built a full-size temple, but that would have been pushing his luck. The shrine was small enough to be ignored by the local government. His old bones ached from the arduous climb as he finally stepped onto the small flat area, but he knew the ache just meant he was still alive. This morning, the a
His Biggest Secret Chapter 82
They traded uneasy glances, and the police officers pulled out their guns."Ok, Edmund. We are going to remove you from the room and take you to a place you can get cleaned up.""Oh... ok." Edmund said, looking down at the corpse again. He licked his lips.Two officers entered the room, one with handcuffs and the other with his gun drawn.Edmund allowed himself to be cuffed and pushed from the room.The moment he was in the antechamber Edmund made a loud click and scanned his red eyes around the room. He planted his feet as he stared at Karl."MONSTER!" he screamed, yanking his arms apart. The links between the cuffs surrendered with a ping and Edmund was leaping at Karl, claws out.A single loud crack filled the room, and Edmund's head exploded in a red mist. His twitching body collided with Karl and the two went down in a pile.Karl bellowed for someone to get the body off of him, so Arnd and Heller dragged it to the side. Karl was gagging as he was covered in blood.Heller trembled
His Biggest Secret Chapter 83
It took all day for his access request to finally come back with an affirmative and he had to speak with three senior executives to explain his findings. They found public record of Minister Imamura's business dealings with the New York investment house. That was above board. It was the combination of this relationship plus the undisclosed use of an unknown encryption technology between his daughter's project on the Japanese school server and the US company's network that made them take an interest.He fed his prepared data file into the decryption engine and headed home once more.The next day he rushed in hoping to see the report but saw a note requesting his presence in a conference room. Grinning, he quickly sent a few of the files he'd pulled from VRL's server to his supervisor then rushed upstairs and knocked on the door of the conference room before entering.His boss was inside as well as his boss' boss and two other people, a man and a woman who he didn
His Biggest Secret Chapter 84
"Just you be really careful with these jokers. They're bad business to mess with," the man huffed and received a nod. With a final glower, Mr. Duncan turned and left, closing the door behind him, leaving Henry with Camila. She smiled at Henry. "So, Henry is settling in with your new neighbors?" She used his new name to reference his new identity. He smiled happily. "Yes, they've welcomed me with open arms. They're good people," he said fondly. She nodded. She'd heard reports from Marisa and had to agree Henry had found himself a good circle of friends. "Are you still friends with the member of the Hidden Races Council, Ms. Beaumont?" "Yes, we're still getting used to each other's forms. Michelle's equally squeamish. My arachnophobia isn't as bad as it used to be but she's struggling a little with my having horns and hooves. She's really nice though." "Does she talk shop with you?" Camila asked. "No, we agreed to keep our work and home life completely separate. I think it's heal
His Biggest Secret Chapter 85
Michelle Beaumont was also seated on the couch next to Rand and looked uncomfortable in the tense environment. As one of the Arachnid race, her people were typically calm and reserved and avoided displays of aggression. She was the Council's historian, a quiet and private woman, and had already informed them that the anomalies reported matched nothing on record. Thane wasn't happy with her response as he'd insisted the man who saw sound, in his opinion, had clearly become one of the dTesh, an ancient enemy the Hidden Races had hunted to extinction millennia ago. Rand upped the ante by calling his cousin's response reactionary and emotional. That was her cue to weigh in. "The man in question is dead. Whether or not he'd become a dTesh is a moot point. We don't have access to his body, and even if we did, as Michelle indicated, we have no certified documentation on dTesh anatomy to identify it. Their extinction occurred before the council made such records. We won't get an answer to t
His Biggest Secret Chapter 86
Sigrid opened her arms, and Meixiu moved into her embrace."Me too," she sighed.**************Henry found himself once more staring at his computer screen at work as the sunset.He'd gotten a break early on in the day when the net he'd placed over the NSA firewall detected an intruder. He was running VRL's intrusion detection algorithms on a third party network. This would not be detectable to them, outside of a slight lag, as it reviewed incoming traffic. He had the intruder's feed captured and analyzed and found password attempt entries. He set those aside for later use. He logged the identity of the owner of the workstation, and when the intruder pulled some files, Henry detected them as his signature files. He appended a flag byte on each signature as they transferred. Inert on their own, if the files were added to data packets sent through the Internet, they activated other capabilities. Most important of these was the breadcrumb trail the data pac
His Biggest Secret Chapter 87
He wasn't sitting for long before the door opened and an older man in a suit stepped inside. Henry gauged him to be in his sixties. He was maybe 5' 6", but he was wide shouldered and looked very strong. His face held a scowl as he took the chair across from Henry. He ran a hand through his close-cropped grey hair then fixed his eyes on Henry's. "I'm Captain Lowes. Last week you were taken into custody by officer Carsten during a disturbance on the Path system. An orgy had broken out on one of the cars. The one you were inside. Officer Carsten failed to deliver you to the station house for questioning. The next morning Officer Jeffrey Carsten was found dead in the bedroom. Evidence found at the scene indicates she'd engaged in intercourse with an unknown male." The man stared at Henry expectantly. Henry's nerves were buzzing as he relived the shooting once more. "Charges?" he managed to croak through his tight throat. The captain's scowl deepened. "One of my best officers died under
His Biggest Secret Chapter 88
There was a buzz in her clutch purse, and she welcomed its distraction. She plucked her cell out and looked at the screen. Her eyes widened in dismay. "SHIT!" she exclaimed. Siobhan was watching her friend in concern since her reaction to Nate's touch. She knew Marisa's talent for precognition was very strong and she must have seen something disturbing to look so shaken. When she cursed at her cell, Siobhan's concern deepened. "What's wrong?" she asked. Marisa looked at her in anguish. She looked over at Nate whose expression was beginning to show his concern as well. "I- I have to go!" she blurted. "What? No!" Nate exclaimed desperately. He didn't want to lose her! She was the only Succubus he'd ever met since he escaped the clutches of the first one. "I'm sorry! Henry's in trouble. A friend." She explained to him. "I have to go!" "I'll come with-" Siobhan began. "No! I mean, it's ok. I'll be contacting... people from work to help. Stay, please. Enjoy. Get to know our new fri