Deviant (Karma Police Book 4) by Sean Platt & David Wright

Author:Sean Platt & David Wright
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: sci-fi
Publisher: Collective Inkwell
Published: 2017-06-30T22:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER 5

I wake up to a little girl giggling, and bright sunshine pouring through sheer white curtains inside a very pink bedroom.

“Wake up, lazy daddy.”

My head is aching from a nasty hangover. The sun is loud, just like the girl. I want to pull the blankets over my head and go back to sleep.

A flash of memory tells me who I am and jolts me awake.

I’m in the body of Brooke’s partner, Rich Wellner. Whoever, or whatever, is controlling my journey seems to have reason to keep me here in this world of black ops CIA. That could be good if it’s moving me closer to Chelsea or the answers to my life’s big mystery.

How did Fairchild and the others see through Brooke? How did they know me? How was I involved with either the CIA program or The First Front?

I get flashes of Rich’s night after Fairchild’s murder of Brooke.

He didn’t go home after helping to dispose of the body, which was as dead simple a task as bringing it to a sub-level incinerator. What does it say about this place that they can kill an innocent person — an employee — and then just haul her down to the incinerator like garbage?

It hadn’t been easy for Rich. At first he needed to pretend that this was somehow necessary and part of the job. As tough as Rich was, murdering an innocent person was a step too far. And afterward, he needed time to process what happened before he could see his family.

He called his wife, told her that he had to work late, went to a bar at the edge of town and got plastered, then drove home, not even caring if he plowed into a tree.

He found himself standing over his six-year-old daughter, Emily, asleep in her princess bed, in her princess pajamas, in her princess room, living in this safe little bubble where most people were good, and evil was easy to avoid. A world where Daddy went to work at the CIA as one of the knights protecting the little princes and princesses of the kingdom from the dragons outside the castle.

But what if the monsters weren’t outside? What if they were the very people “protecting” the kingdom? Rich wondered when the lines between good and bad, black and white, had grown so muddied.

And then he broke down crying.

Rich crawled into bed and lay beside his daughter, hugging her, wishing he could turn back the clock to when he was that good guy — before being compromised by a job that wasn’t anything like he believed it to be.

Before he was part of a program hunting Deviants for “the greater good.”

The hunt was designed to do two things: keep the world safe from the bad Deviants and provide a place for the good Deviants to live out their lives. The Agency even worked with a school to train the best Deviant kids they could find.

But under the surface, Rich knew that something was rotten.

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