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know someone who can get rid of him…forever.”
     
    Galena frowned. “Well, I want to be there when you do it, so that I can spit in his face.”
     
    Halston nodded. “I’ll try to arrange that.” He smiled for her, hoping it would soften her angry face. Tonight…his smile wasn’t working.
     
    “If it wasn’t for one of the dumber vampires, in his drunken stupor, forgetting to lock the cage, I would still be there. I might be dead now.”
     
    Halston patted the back of her hand. “It’s all in the past now. I don’t want you to worry. I can erase this event from your memory, if you’d like.” He came to his feet and held a hand out to her.
     
    Galena took his hand and pulled herself up, but she held tight to his hand. Her eyes were serious. “No, Halston.”
     
    He tensed. The tone of her voice was unexpected. She sounded like herself again, cold and serious. She looked…ready to hurt someone.
     
    “I don’t want to forget. I need to remember this. You’re not getting out of letting me spit in his face when you kill him.”
     
    Halston nodded and tried to take his hand back. She held steady.
     
    “Listen,” she said. “There’s more.”
     
    Halston sighed. “What else?”
     
    She leaned in close to him. Her eyes were hardened. Her grip was unyielding. “He knows about Koa.”
     
    Halston felt his face pale. There was little in this world that would make him react recklessly. He would have to restrain himself while he listened to what the Russian woman had to say.
     

Chapter 5
     
     
    K oa met Halston at the safe house. Their meeting place was an unassuming abandoned warehouse that Halston had purchased decades ago. The entire strip of land was abandoned. Once a power plant, no one dared come near it for fear of radiation exposure.
     
    Koa had the suspicion that Halston probably had a dozen or so safe houses. Whenever one was compromised, he always had a backup, and he didn’t always tell her his plan. He was clever. People tended to assume that such an attractive man couldn’t possibly be such a genius. They didn’t know that he was always at least ten steps ahead of them, and that his brain functioned at a superhuman level. They could never guess that he was not in fact…human.
     
    She walked into one of the secret entrances in the back and covered her head with her hand. The exposed pipes still tended to drip cold water onto her head. It was dark and silent, except for the incessant drips. She rolled her eyes and lifted herself a few feet off the ground to avoid stepping into the black puddles that covered the flooring.
     
    Halston was good. This was all a diversion, in case anyone dared come inside. They would see the oil spills and the oozing green gases that seeped into the air from cracked pipes along the wall. Anyone would be discouraged from going any further, but Koa knew better.
     
    She ignored the mutated rats and followed the labyrinth-like tunnels to a small door. One might never have noticed since it seemed to blend into the darkness. The door was rusted and covered in a slimy film of green goo. She pulled the hidden lever and pushed. With a creak it opened, and her eyes were affronted by bright lights.
     
    Koa groaned and hurried inside. She pushed the door closed and set the lock on the digital keypad attached to its back.
     
    “Glad you finally decided to join us,” Halston called.
     
    Koa sighed and turned to face him. With clean, white walls, the sterile space reminded her of a lab or a hospital. The constant buzz of electronics hummed in the background. The sleek, white desks, and long, bare tables, were spaced apart like a study hall.
     
    Halston’s love for technology was apparent at first glance into that room. He had flat screens everywhere and prototypes for weapons and various gadgets and devices. Everything was neat, and tucked away into its proper place, and then she saw it, locked away in its glass case.
     
    Halston’s infinity gun.
     
    Koa