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didn’t know. I fought to stay still, squeezing my eyes closed, but I found myself thrusting my hips.
“I’ll let you go if you promise to kill my husband and take me with you.”
“Unnnngh,” I groaned. It was an noncommittal groan, but Alter-Vicki must have taken it for an affirmative, because she whispered, “Thank you.”
Then she changed her grip again, her hands moving so quickly I simply couldn’t control myself anymore. I clenched my teeth and gave into the release.
I may have also y too much woman for that.”
“you,” Phin said.etelped a little.
“Wow,” she said, when I finished spasming. “That was impressive. How long has it been?”
“I’ve had a rough few days.” I let out a slow breath. “Can you unlock me, please?”
Alter-Vicki fished the handcuff keys out of the nightstand drawer, releasing me from bondage. The first thing I did was reach for the pistol next to the bed.
“Not loaded,” she said, wiping off my chest with a towel. “Bullets are impossible to find.”
I ejected the clip and checked it anyway. She was telling the truth.
“Where is your husband?” I asked.
“I don’t know, sir.”
“Will headphones work this deep underwater?”
“No. When he contacts me, it is via sonar.”
I frowned. There was a lot I needed to do. Saving my wife was number one on my list, but I assumed Alter-Talon would use her as leverage and wouldn’t harm her until he’d gotten what he needed from me. So, for the moment, she was safe. But he would no doubt be armed, and I had no weapons.
The last time I had seen my wife, I told her a tiny white lie, promising that I would save Boise and the half a million people who were sent to a dinosaur earth before I tried to rescue her. I was still planning on saving Boise, but I was planning on getting Vicki first.
Also, I had some kind of poison in my system. Sata told me it would begin to shut down my system within hours. And it had already been hours.
“Did your husband say anything about an antidote for me?”
Alter-Vicki shook her head.
“How are we supposed to get out of here?”
“He has a submarine.”
Of course he did. What good is an underwater lair unless one had a sub?
“Do you have more than one scuba tank?”
“No.”
Her lower lip trembled, and I could sense she was worried about me leaving her here. If Alter-Talon showed up, and I was gone, no doubt she would incur his wrath.
“Okay, we’re just going to have to share the tank, and swim back to shore.”
Rather than look relieved, Alter-Vicki’s eyes became wide with fear.
“What?” I asked.
“The salmonster repellent we took. It only lasts half an hour.”
“When did we take them?”
She frowned. “AlmostEbooks by J.A. KonrathEsho s half an hour ago.”
Great. I swung my legs over the side of the bed. My knees had lost some circulation, and were tingling. I rubbed them, waiting for the pins and needles sensation to go away.
It didn’t.
The nanopoison.
It had apparently begun to take effect.
Chapter 10
Alter-Talon and his doppelgänger fired their tasers at the exact same moment. Their wax bullets smashed into each other in the air, at the midpoint between them. Sparks flew, but no one was tazed.
“Cool,” they said in unison.
Then they both began talking over each other, before Alter-Talon managed to get in, “Who are you? A Talon from a parallel universe?”
The double shook his head. “I’m not from a parallel universe. I’m from this universe.”
“I think I would have seen you around before.”
“Not exactly. Ever hear of sparticles? It’s a concept of supersymmetry.”
Alter-Talon wrinkled his brow, remembering back to science class during his school days. Sparticles were superpartners that existed beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. Bosons had partner fermions, and fermions partner bosons, though only one of the superpartners could be detected.
“I think so. They’re partner particles with an equal quantum
“I’ll let you go if you promise to kill my husband and take me with you.”
“Unnnngh,” I groaned. It was an noncommittal groan, but Alter-Vicki must have taken it for an affirmative, because she whispered, “Thank you.”
Then she changed her grip again, her hands moving so quickly I simply couldn’t control myself anymore. I clenched my teeth and gave into the release.
I may have also y too much woman for that.”
“you,” Phin said.etelped a little.
“Wow,” she said, when I finished spasming. “That was impressive. How long has it been?”
“I’ve had a rough few days.” I let out a slow breath. “Can you unlock me, please?”
Alter-Vicki fished the handcuff keys out of the nightstand drawer, releasing me from bondage. The first thing I did was reach for the pistol next to the bed.
“Not loaded,” she said, wiping off my chest with a towel. “Bullets are impossible to find.”
I ejected the clip and checked it anyway. She was telling the truth.
“Where is your husband?” I asked.
“I don’t know, sir.”
“Will headphones work this deep underwater?”
“No. When he contacts me, it is via sonar.”
I frowned. There was a lot I needed to do. Saving my wife was number one on my list, but I assumed Alter-Talon would use her as leverage and wouldn’t harm her until he’d gotten what he needed from me. So, for the moment, she was safe. But he would no doubt be armed, and I had no weapons.
The last time I had seen my wife, I told her a tiny white lie, promising that I would save Boise and the half a million people who were sent to a dinosaur earth before I tried to rescue her. I was still planning on saving Boise, but I was planning on getting Vicki first.
Also, I had some kind of poison in my system. Sata told me it would begin to shut down my system within hours. And it had already been hours.
“Did your husband say anything about an antidote for me?”
Alter-Vicki shook her head.
“How are we supposed to get out of here?”
“He has a submarine.”
Of course he did. What good is an underwater lair unless one had a sub?
“Do you have more than one scuba tank?”
“No.”
Her lower lip trembled, and I could sense she was worried about me leaving her here. If Alter-Talon showed up, and I was gone, no doubt she would incur his wrath.
“Okay, we’re just going to have to share the tank, and swim back to shore.”
Rather than look relieved, Alter-Vicki’s eyes became wide with fear.
“What?” I asked.
“The salmonster repellent we took. It only lasts half an hour.”
“When did we take them?”
She frowned. “AlmostEbooks by J.A. KonrathEsho s half an hour ago.”
Great. I swung my legs over the side of the bed. My knees had lost some circulation, and were tingling. I rubbed them, waiting for the pins and needles sensation to go away.
It didn’t.
The nanopoison.
It had apparently begun to take effect.
Chapter 10
Alter-Talon and his doppelgänger fired their tasers at the exact same moment. Their wax bullets smashed into each other in the air, at the midpoint between them. Sparks flew, but no one was tazed.
“Cool,” they said in unison.
Then they both began talking over each other, before Alter-Talon managed to get in, “Who are you? A Talon from a parallel universe?”
The double shook his head. “I’m not from a parallel universe. I’m from this universe.”
“I think I would have seen you around before.”
“Not exactly. Ever hear of sparticles? It’s a concept of supersymmetry.”
Alter-Talon wrinkled his brow, remembering back to science class during his school days. Sparticles were superpartners that existed beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. Bosons had partner fermions, and fermions partner bosons, though only one of the superpartners could be detected.
“I think so. They’re partner particles with an equal quantum
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