CHAPTER 140

EDEN (FORMERLY JUNCTION CITY UTAH)

Aihola bounded up the hilltop where she had seen Tarifa disappear with Martin a short time ago. Their Raptor was standing idle on the tarmac below waiting to return them to Salina. She walked confidently through the trees, safe in the knowledge that nothing dangerous could get this close to Eden without Martin knowing about it.

He was everything that Tarifa had told her he would be. He was tall, very handsome in a rugged down to earth way, exceptionally powerful; he had a commanding presence when in the room with people, and he was a man who was very divisive in his thinking and his actions. Aihola felt something vaguely familiar about him when she first saw him and even the times since. She had kept trying to place it in her head, but it was always just out of reach on the edges of her mind.