Humble Beginnings by Hopkins KA

Author:Hopkins, KA [Hopkins, KA]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Axsum
Published: 2015-06-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22 - Letting the cat out of the bag with the family

I asked Mother to get an update from Natasha on how everything was going on the home front. As a weird coincidence, Natasha happened to call in a warning to Mother that very moment. She had overheard enough of my wife’s conversations with the kids and her friends to know my wife suspected I was up to a lot more than what I was telling her. Ironically, her suspicions had not been raised by my overseas contract cover story or the fifty thousand dollars in cash. Mother said, “You need to listen to this.”

Mother opened a channel to Natasha, enabling me to see and hear everything from Natasha’s point of view. On the monitor, I could see my wife Pam on the floor by the fireplace, looking Natasha in the eye. She was actually talking to the dog almost like she knew the dog could understand her. Natasha had her head tilted to one side, her ears up and her eyes locked onto Pam’s every movement.

“Natasha, I realize you look like a dog and most of the time act like a dog, but I have a sneaky suspicion you’re much more than what you appear to be. You are a pretty good copy but you’re not our Natasha. A couple of things just don’t add up. They’re small things, but put them all together, the evidence is pretty convincing.”

Listening to my wife brought a smile to my face - one of her many attributes is that she’s smart as a whip, never takes anything for granted nor at face value. She figured out that the dog was a fake based only on the slightest changes in behavior. I looked at Marc. “So what do we do?”

“What do you mean we? She’s your wife, you deal with it.” Marc replied with a smile.

“What about operational security?” I asked.

Marc replied, “I think you need to read her in. It would be a big help having some personnel within the team who don’t look like hard core Special Ops soldiers.”

“Roger that. Natasha you're cleared to brief Pam on the basics of what we’re trying to do.” This should be interesting, I thought to myself.

“Pam, how about I make you a drink, I have one hell of a story to tell you,” Natasha said in a low, husky voice. Instead of my wife screaming at hearing our dog speak English, she smiled. “Gotcha, you old faker, let’s hear what you have to say.”

Natasha briefed Pam on the highlights of the past weeks and provided a summary of why I decided to help Mother and left home so suddenly. How extraterrestrials, through human collaborators, intended to pacify Earth’s population for an alien invasion, and that I was in command of an ad-hoc team of former Special Forces operators, trying to slow down the invasion until we could present a case on behalf of Earth and hopefully get assistance from the ULIR. Natasha wisely

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