A Modern Viking: Sveyn & Hollis: Part Three (The Hansen Series - Sveyn & Hollis Book 3) by Tualla Kris

Author:Tualla, Kris [Tualla, Kris]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

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The food in the slowly spinning restaurant was decent. Hollis told Sveyn when she chose this place for their date that the real draw was the three-hundred-and-sixty-degree view of Phoenix from the twenty-fourth floor.

In spite of that, Sveyn’s steak was delicious and Hollis said she had no complaints about her salmon. Dessert was a rich chocolate lava cake paired with a sweet white wine.

And coffee. Sveyn decided he liked coffee very much.

Part of their dinner conversation was spent in speculation as to what Hollis’s upcoming museum guests would expect to find.

“Before, when you were still an apparition, I was curious to see what they might feel or hear or see,” she told him. “But now they won’t find anything, so I’m not as interested.”

“What about the Blessing of the Gods?” he asked.

Hollis gave him an odd look. “I think the Exor-Clergy guys purged it.”

“You heard the screaming?” Sveyn thought he was the only one who could hear that.

“I did. Then it got very quiet.”

“If the purging is true—and it very well may be—then your guests will be paying a lot of money for nothing,” he warned.

Hollis shook her head. “Almost everybody would say that the Blessing was a myth anyway. And you never were a ‘ghost’ to begin with.”

She made two valid points. “Who is coming on Monday?”

“A group called People Unlimited.” Hollis swirled the back of her fork across her plate to scrape up the last of her chocolate. “Why?”

“I am just curious.” He copied her actions, retrieving one last mouthful of the dark deliciousness. “This will be my first chance to be a physical guard, so I am trying to anticipate any trouble.”

“You saw the rest of them.” She wrinkled her nose. “They’ve been harmless.”

“Have you looked up these unlimited people on the—on Google?” he corrected himself.

“Not yet.” Hollis pointed her sucked-clean fork at him. “Do you want to look them up on your phone while you finish your coffee?”

Sveyn pulled his phone out and swiped it awake. He clicked on the Google icon—that time ‘the’ Google was correct—and entered People Unlimited. He touched the magnifying glass that meant search.

“What is a cult?” he asked.

“Are they a cult?” Hollis reached for the phone. “Let me see.”

Hollis touched his phone’s screen twice and then read aloud, “People Unlimited stands for physical immortality and unlimited life. Our mission is to provide an environment that supports life extension and physical immortality.”

“That sounds suspiciously like Everett Sage,” Sveyn grumbled. “I will not leave you alone with these people.”

“Yeah, this reporter’s source calls them a cult.” Then Hollis laughed and her amused gaze jumped up to his. “But their founder died at the age of seventy-nine. So much for physical immortality.”

Sveyn shook his head. “Being pinned to this earthly life for eternity is not a goal any man or woman should aspire to. It is miserable. And I know what I am speaking about.”

Hollis handed him his phone back. “Your situation aside, it’s got to be lonely. If the possibility was true, all

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