Better Things Ahead (The Faceless Future Trilogy Book 2) by Nate Allen

Author:Nate Allen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mark of the beast, christian thriller, christian suspense, end times fiction

–The Domino Effect–

1

Katy was gone when Ken woke up the next morning. He hadn’t heard her leave his apartment. Considering how they left things the night before he wasn’t even sure she wanted to come back. He texted her an apology as soon as he woke up but she hadn’t replied to it. He checked his phone a few times throughout the morning. Still no reply.

The hours of the day ticked away. He finally received a text back at 6:55 p.m.:

Be over soon. Had to get something for you.

Ken regretted the thoughts he had the night before. Although Katy was different from Rosy in so many different ways, she was very similar where it mattered: she had his best interest in mind. The idea that he had found a quality companion willing to walk with him through the hard times—Katy was a rarity. She came to his door by accident that night, but how well she fit made it seem predestined. God just wanted him to be happy. He even considered the possibility that God brought him someone on his current level so they both could grow in Christ together. She didn’t believe in God. But up until recently the same had been true of him. Maybe he was meant to save her.

A few minutes later his door opened, Katy using her spare key.

“I’m sorry about last night, sweetie.” Ken got up from the couch immediately and walked toward her. “I was short with you. It’s still a very difficult subject.”

“I know, Ken.” her eyes were soft as she bit her lip. Biting her lip was her tell. She had something on her mind.

“Where were you today?”

“I was getting proof, Ken. Proof that can put your mind at ease. What happened with your brother is—well there aren’t really words to describe it. You have been looking for reasons ‘why’. He didn’t change because of the Credit Chip, baby.”

“How do you know?”

“Because I haven’t changed.” she pulled up her right black jacket sleeve to show the barcode.

Ken’s eyes widened as he swallowed a thick lump of tears. “Wa-what did you do, Ka—”

“This is proof, baby. I am still your Katy. Still yours.”

No hope. He thought about what Pastor John told him concerning Kyle many months before. And now he was faced with the same reality again. “You don’t understand what you’ve done.”

“What I did was prove your conspiracy theory wrong. Your brother was sick. Nothing more.”

“No.”

“How can you keep holding onto this? Look at me. I haven’t changed.”

“You will.” He had seen too much to believe otherwise.

“Don’t be that way. Please. I don’t want to lose you.”

“You already have.”

Her blinks were slow as she tried to compute this reaction. She had done it to help him, to bring some kind of peace to his torment. “I-I did it for you.”

He shook his head, eyes wide and blank. “No, Katy. You did it for you.”

“How can you say that?”

“Instead of believing me, you went out to prove me wrong—”

“To help you heal!”

“Tell yourself what you want, Katy.

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