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If Only He Never
Labeled “conman of the year” by the media, Curtis hasn’t got much left, besides his life. Then he learns that to a scientist he’s worth billions—dead.
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When Curtis’s hopes for a brighter future with his beguiling new neighbor Laura are dashed by her betrayal turning him into a murder suspect, he’s positive things can’t get worse—until he escapes from a rain of bullets. The reason, so Laura tells him: he carries the solution scientists will kill for in his blood—the ultimate vaccine to prevent cancer and other fatal diseases.
Reluctantly, he teams up with Laura, but when he digs up his past and discovers a disturbing truth, the reason the government-linked pharmaceutical giant wants him dead rather than use his blood to save millions of people, the web of lies and deceit grows denser.
To have a life and a future, Curtis has to have blood on his hands, though to get to the scientist, he has to trust the enigmatic Laura, but as they grow closer, her secrets could prove deadlier than the conspiracy he unravels.
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She wasn’t a ghost. To an untrained eye, or if one’s senses were hazed by what people consumed or inhaled or injected to, well, haze their senses, she could have been mistaken for one. She counted on clouded minds when she camouflaged behind corners, posts, vending machines before approaching the footpath. To her it was imperative to remain unnoticed, unidentified.
A car crawling past provided her shelter to cross the street in a flash, then scurry into a narrow alleyway where she pressed her body against the wall. The nightly chill crept under her skin, worsening her inner tremor.
She had to tell Gordon she’d failed. Failed because she was blinded. Blinded by the man holding the future of thousands if not millions of people in his hands. He could have known by now. She’d wanted to tell him, but there’d been no other option than to leave the scene, the “crime scene” as the police would soon call it. Had no other choice than to abandon him. Would he understand it was in his best interest to be in the authorities’ hands? Chances were high he’d be locked up for a long time, and he wouldn’t even know why.
She fished her cellphone from the pocket of her black coat—both coat and phone having been the only items she could gather in the rush. She managed to speed dial Gordon’s number. He’d be so pissed off. Phone to her ear she waited for her call to be answered.
Finally, the click.
“A bit early, don’t you think?”
She couldn’t blame him for coming across agitated but it still put her on alert.
“I had to compromise him.” Had he heard her? She wasn’t sure.
After a too-long pause, he bellowed, “How the hell did that happen?”
To muffle his roar, she held the phone against her chest. Once he’d settled she whispered, “I believe they’re onto us.”
“Why do you think that?”
“I’ll explain it when you pick me up. I can’t get to my car. Too many cops.”
“Where is he?”
Contemplating her words, she decided on the truth. “The cops got him.”
A heavy sigh filtered through. “You know, sweetheart, you’re doing a good job. Generally. But when you screw up, you do it royally. Where are you?”
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