Embracing Midnight by Devyn Quinn

Author:Devyn Quinn [Devyn Quinn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Erotic
ISBN: 9780758237729
Publisher: Aphrodisia
Published: 2008-12-01T15:33:13+00:00

17

Heart beating a mile a minute, Callie walked between Roger Reinke and Paul Norton. Her head turned every which way as they progressed down a wide corridor. On the outside, the facilities looked like an ordinary seven-story office building.

Inside was a far different story.

The building sat on a four-mile circle of government property, perfectly landscaped, pristine, as still as a fly trapped in amber. Property restricted to civilian personnel. Property fenced and patrolled by armed security guards.

Callie fingered the badge clipped at her waist. Her security clearances were written into the small piece of plastic that now granted her access into the government’s most secret of inner sanctums. They’d only made it inside after enduring innumerable security checks. All movement through the complex was accomplished through badges and codes. When she’d slid her newly minted ID badge into the scanner, she’d held her breath, expecting the red light to remain red. To her relief, it switched to green and she was allowed to punch in her code and proceed along with Norton and Reinke.

Where they had proceeded to boggled the mind.

A new guide led the way through the maze. A tall cadaverous man who rather reminded Callie of the actor who’d played Lurch in the Addams Family television show in the sixties. He lumbered, a giant of commanding presence and booming voice. The blind and dead couldn’t fail to see him coming. Those who did steered a quick path out of his for fear of being run over. He, too, wore the all-telling white lab coat.

In Callie’s mind, white coats didn’t exactly bode well. She was noticing a lot of white coats. Those troubling coats below unsmiling and serious faces meant business. Bad business. Under the seeming serenity, a more sinister note vibrated. Maleficent and corrupt forces were in power. The strings of fear they pulled taut sought to restrain free thought and independent action. Those who had control wouldn’t easily relinquish it.

The good professor’s name was Terrence Forque, pronounced like the eating utensil. The grand tour of a captive audience was his forte and he took ample advantage to remind them several times that only the best of the best walked these hallowed hallways.

Officially, the building was known under the code of A-51 ASD. What it meant, few knew.

Now Callie knew.

Area 51, Alien Sciences Division. Location, just outside Belmonde, Virginia. The U.S. government didn’t explicitly acknowledge the existence of the A-51 ASD facility, nor did it deny it. The area surrounding the facility was permanently off-limits both to civilians and normal air traffic, and protected by radar stations. Uninvited guests were met by armed guards. Deadly force was authorized if violators attempting to breach the secured area failed to heed warnings of security to halt.

“The project dates back to nineteen forty-seven, with the advent of the crash in Roswell, New Mexico,” Forque explained. “At that time we encountered conclusive proof of aliens and their existence among us. This in turn prompted then-president Truman and J. Edgar Hoover to implement a program geared toward the study of alien species and technologies as they were discovered.

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