Chapter SixAlaric stood in front of the building for a long time. It was much like any other office building in Chicago, a gleaming façade of glass and steel filled with people working diligently. The understated sign above the address said “Bellington Tower,” a twenty-one-story office building that was home to exactly one business, “Keller Science.” His research told him that Keller Science was in the business of bettering human existence through science. They had brought several technologies to market in the last ten years, most in the medical field. But that was not what brought him to Bellington Tower. Under the exterior of a highly secured business building, Alaric knew another kind of business lurked. The kind he had been looking for, and in that building, his target waited, even i

