Destiny (The Foreigners Series Book One)

Chapter Sixteen: What Could Be Worse?

Genesis

What had started out as a whirlwind date where I hadn't trusted Killian at all had ended with me finding out not only that he was an Azure, but also that the whole Azure Initiative was in danger of crashing down. On the one hand, I was glad to finally know that I could trust Killian and that he was the Azure, but the devastation I felt as I realized that the one link humans had to the inside of alien society might soon be gone was crushing. I couldn't believe everything that was happening around me.

Seeing that poor woman who had been tortured and mutilated had torn my heart out and made me sick to my stomach. I couldn't imagine anyone who would be willing to do something so terrible to someone else. The brutality the aliens forced upon humanity never ceased, but instead only grew and continued to get worse every...single...day. What would happen to Killian if they ever found out what he was really doing as Azure? I shuddered inwardly. I didn't want to find out.

I was afraid, not only for the Azures and for myself, but for all of humanity and wondered what would happen next. With all the disruption and devastation going on, I was ready to go and get my brother as soon as we could. I worried that if we didn't get to them soon, something might happen to them, or worse, that the rebellion would keep me from ever being able to reach them again. I couldn't leave my brother behind. That just wasn't an option.

"You doing OK?" Killian asked drawing my attention away from the paper crane I was building using a small scrap of paper from his notebook.

Since we had entered this room I found myself feeling very intimidated. Though the wooden conference table was sort of homey, the twenty something chairs that surrounded it gave the room a very executive type feel. I had never been to a corporate interview, but now it was as if I was in the middle of one. If that wasn't enough there were several screens decorating the walls, and a weapons cabinet that was the length of one of those walls. It was filled with all sorts of items from knives to guns, each one with its own appeal.

"Just worried about Jason....and what all this mob activity might lead to." I said looking over at him as we sat poised, me apprehensively awaiting the arrival of his team.

Killian nodded his head, understanding my worry and laid his pen down from where he had been working on his notes and plans for this meeting, and the next steps he was going to take to rid himself of the problem at hand.

"We will find a way to fix this." He said this to reassure me, but I could hear the worry in his own voice and it didn't make me feel any better.

The need to have me close was evident in his eyes. He had told me coming in here that he wanted me with him as much as possible. After what happened to that other man and his Destiny, he wasn't willing to let me out of his sight for anything short of a disaster, and even then I would be left with one of his men to watch over me.

To be honest, I was glad to be at his side. I was terrified of those aliens out there, even more so now that I had seen them in action. But I was also terrified of his men...they were aliens too after all. 

I nodded my head up and down halfheartedly just as a knock sounded at the door.

"That would be the guys." Killian pushed away from the table and stood to go answer the door before stopping behind my chair and placing his hands on my shoulders.

Even in the midst of all the worry and terror, I still got chills as his skin settled against mine. I thought back over the past couple of days, feeling like it had been forever since I'd seen my brother, since I'd been kidnapped, and had thought Killian was one of the aliens I hated so fiercely. We had gotten comfortable with each other so fast, and I had wondered why it was so hard to put up a wall against him. Now that I understood there was a greater force involved, I was still nervous about being with him. My blood told him I was perfect for him, but what if I wasn't?