Therian Promise by Cyndi Friberg

Author:Cyndi Friberg [Friberg, Cyndi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Anything-but-Ordinary Books
Published: 2017-06-09T05:00:00+00:00

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While Osric was sleeping soundly in her bed, Carly rushed to the conference room and called the backers. She’d been thrilled when she was given the security code to the conference room. It was the only room in the complex from which outgoing calls were possible. Her excitement fizzled soon after as she realized she had no one in the outside world who gave a damn about her. She’d always been an outcast, isolated by her ambition and intelligence. Her lack of family and friends was likely one of the reasons she’d been recruited for this project.

Any one of the three backers could respond to her page. Tonight Roberto came online. He wore a silk robe and his dark hair was tousled as if he’d just crawled out of bed.

“I’m sorry to bother you, sir.” If he lived in Italy, as she suspected, it was likely about nine o’clock at night. “I just finished questioning Osric.”

“Were the drugs helpful?” The wall behind his desk was wainscoted in rich reddish-brown wood and the edge of a large gilt-framed painting was barely visible. He’d obviously positioned his desk so that few clues to his location were evident.

“Very. It took a bit longer for him to go under than I would have liked, but once the drugs kicked in, he was extremely cooperative.” She hesitated, unsure if indulging her curiosity was worth the risk of annoying her boss. “May I ask a question, sir?”

“Of course and stop calling me sir. Milliner might need his ego stroked on a regular basis. I prefer candid honesty.”

“All right. I couldn’t help wondering why you hadn’t used the drugs on Osric before now.”

“We discussed it, several times in fact. But the memory loss isn’t complete. If we’d strapped him to a chair and interrogated him, he would have known we didn’t trust him. This way he’ll wake up in bed with jumbled flashes of a night spent with his lover.”

She nodded, fervently hoping that was all he remembered.

“What did you learn?”

She’d learned that Milliner was more of a bastard than she’d thought—if that were possible. And the project had been going on far longer than she realized. “Most of what he told me was not new. Osric likes to brag. But I asked him if he had plans to betray the backers and he told me he couldn’t betray someone unless he’d sworn allegiance to them first.”

“Did he tell you who held his allegiance?”

“He said he served someone named Zophiel.”

“Zophiel?” His dark brows drew together over his aquiline nose. “Surely that isn’t a real name.”

“According to Osric she is God’s spy and the angel of Divine Justice.”

“A female angel?” He chuckled and ran a hand through his hair. “This gets better and better.”

“I pushed for more details and he went into some sort of trance. He rocked back and forth and chanted in a language I’d never heard before.”

“We all sensed that he was up to something. We never dreamed it was this creative.

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