Chapter 66

“What can I say?” Nathan shrugged. “Sometimes I just can’t help bringing my work home with me.” He dropped his flashlight at the same time as he reached for the gun tucked into his jeans. He had it out and steadied on Faust before the guy’s eyes had even left the rolling flashlight on the floor.

“You’re quick for just a human,” Faust said.

“You, too, I’d imagine.”

“Oh,” Faust smiled slyly, “I’m much more than human. I’m going to live forever. And no one, especially not you, is going to take that away from me.” Faust said that but he didn’t blindly fire at Nathan or Shiarra, not when a gun was also pointed at him.

“Funny thing about eternal youth,” Nathan said, nodding at his own weapon, “it doesn’t make you immortal. And I gotta say, if it was working so well for you, why did you have to start stealing memories again after all these years? Hadn’t you had enough?”