Eli swallowed as the security guard called someone out to meet him. He told the man he was here from the Lightman Group, and hoped that whomever he was dealing with wasn't yet another person with a long-standing grudge against Cal. Given the regularity with which that happened, it really wasn't too out of line to expect. But, no, this was just ( Read more... )

He's letting that sink in, that Cal would have fired him if he'd taken the check, shifting the blame away from the electronics company, onto a father that was just trying to get to his daughter that slipped on the ice. There's something that catches his breath about this, the way that Cal switches in one beat from yelling at him for losing the ( Read more... )

Loker was sitting at the kitchen counter, a six pack of what he knew to be Cal's favorite beer sitting untouched as he waited.  Emily had let him in, and they'd talked briefly -- that new song, small, meaningless things, until she'd left with a friend, left him there to wait for Cal.  Even she had seemed to notice that something was wrong, giving ( Read more... )

Loker was running through the halls to the room number that Cal had sent to him. There were so many different scenarios running through his head now, worry a tinge to his thoughts. Monsters? He couldn't believe he was actually thinking that, but the more research he did into it, the more it seemed like the truth. And it wasn't as if that was ( Read more... )