Gemini Man--The Official Movie Novelization by Titan Books

Author:Titan Books
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Titan

CHAPTER 13

The mansion Clay Verris called home was one of many stately old houses that Savannah was famous for, although it wasn’t actually in the city itself but several miles away in the countryside, well off the beaten path followed by historic tours. It sat on several well-kept and heavily-surveilled acres of land and had its own lake just a few steps from the front door. The clear placid water reflected the place perfectly, so that from a certain distance, the house seemed to be sitting directly above its upside-down double. It was the kind of image many photographers found irresistible but the very few people allowed within Verris’s established perimeter knew better than to bring a camera.

In the twenty-three years Clay Verris had been in residence with his son, there had been very few intrusions. The security details stationed well away from the house had occasionally redirected hikers with broken compasses and, on one occasion, escorted someone claiming to be a herbalist off the property. But no one had ever come close to breaking into the house.

Nonetheless, Verris had put in an alarm system, just in case. The Gemini personnel he had tasked with the installation told him that it was a bit tricky to install something so high-tech without compromising the house’s historic character. Verris had told them this meant either the tech wasn’t high-tech enough or they didn’t know what they were doing; which was it?

The alarm system had gone in without a problem, and so had all the updates. Verris tested it from time to time and was satisfied that there was no way anyone could get into his home without being invited.

So when he woke just before dawn, he knew something was wrong. He was a man who slept soundly and well; thoroughly was the word he liked to use. His training and conditioning were also thorough, and as a result, he had an extremely heightened awareness, which was how he knew he had awakened because there was someone else in the house.

He lay very still, waiting for noises that might give some indication of how many hostiles he might have to deal with and where each of them was. Later he would determine how they had breached the perimeter and broken in without setting off the in-house alarm. The overnight security team would regret their negligence for the rest of their miserable lives, if not longer.

It seemed like an hour before he finally heard another sound, this time from his son’s bedroom. Verris tensed; was this some kind of drunken prank? There had been an incident before, but that had been in his office in the compound. At times, personnel got rowdy there but they wouldn’t dare break into his house, he was sure of that. If this was an outsider, though, a lot of heads were going to roll.

Without making a sound, Verris got up, put on his dressing gown and crept down the stairs. The light in Junior’s room was on and shouldn’t have been.

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