The Return of the Watchers (Armageddon Rising Book 1) by Denny Bennett Read Free Book Online Page B

              “When I arrived in New York, I met a man named Theodore Dantanian and his assistant, April.”                                                                       “Theodore Dantanian”, Dorian thought. “Where have I heard that name before?” Yuki started to speak again and Dorian interrupted her with his epiphany.                                                                                                                              “Oh, right, the corporate tycoon investor; wait, that Theodore Dantanian?” he asked with a shocked expression.                                                         “Yes, at least that’s who he claimed to be. I do not think he was lying about his identity. At least, I know my father checked him out. He asked me if I knew about your research, and when I told him what we are working on he said that was not what he was referring to. Apparently he thinks you are conducting some kind of secret experiment. Crazy, right?” she asked, half-joking and half-serious.                                                         “Damn,” he thought. He was in trouble; someone had found out and this wasn’t good. The need to trust someone was always there; for too long he had been carrying this burden. On the other hand, getting Yuki involved in something that could be dangerous, especially with a big player like Dantanian on the trail, was not what he had in mind. The prospect of an ugly future was beginning to take shape.
    “What else did he say?” he asked, avoiding her question entirely.              She looked at him as if she didn’t believe what she was about to say. “He told me about a blood sample that was stolen from you at Primase and said that it had unusual properties; impervious to every kind of pathogen, cells that had an unusual chromosome arrangement, immortal,  fire resistant. You get the picture, crazy talk. He told me that he had already contacted you for a deal, but you turned him down, so, he offered me a lot of money to spy on you and give him whatever data you had or a sample of this super blood.”                                                                                     Dorian sensed she was skeptical so he played into it.                             “Yuki, yes, I was contacted by an individual from a company called Hermoni, but they wanted me to head their research department at one of their subsidiary biotech firms, looking into senescence or something like that. I told them I wasn’t interested. I did have quite a few mutated blood samples at Primase that I was using for my cancer research, but if I had something on that level of significance I would be researching it myself,” he replied, evading the truth without directly lying to her.               Yuki smiled and laughed. “For a while there I was thinking there was this great conspiracy going on, what with the offer from Dantanian, the strange van following me, and then this package. It is funny how the mind plays tricks on you,” she said in a relieved voice.                                          “So what did you tell him?” he asked.                                                        “You really need to ask? I’m hurt,” she replied with a pouty face.               “Okay, okay,” he said, smiling with his hands up. “You going to watch the rest of that or are we going to get some work done?”