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Having rejoined the Unseen, Aries Tsami, aka Aries Archer, is again involved in his family’s shadow wars. He knows far more about the true shadows than he has ever let on but far less about his family’s secrets. His mother has never talked much about her past before her ascension to the Unseen throne as Queen Eve. But when figures from her past return to the present, secrets are revealed that turn the lives of everyone Aries loves on their heads and will change the Unseen forever. The shadows are darker than many could ever imagine and they have fangs but how will the apex predators of the true Underworld fair when the family of violet-eyed killers make themselves known? It is monsters versus monsters and no matter who comes out on top, it will be a damn good time.

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Chapter One
Cornel Chemicals is one of the many MI6 front companies around the United Kingdom. Publicly they are responsible for developing household cleaning supplies, which they do at most of their locations. Behind the scenes, they are one of the many assets in the country’s chemical warfare and defense division. The 10th and 17th floors of the Cornel Building outside of Liverpool are known in any MI6 report, memo, or discussion as Sites Alistair and Arwan. The 10th is Alistair because the scientists who work there are dedicated to studying chemical weaponry developed by other nations around the world, both friend and foe, and coming up with ways to defend against them. The 17th floor, Arwan, is where some of the deadliest weaponry in the nation’s arsenal is developed. Much of this would be considered a war crime if it were ever deployed. Each floor also has a cryo vault to securely store samples of the deadly substances they study. The building’s security force looks like regular guards but is really MI6-trained agents and members of the SAS. Those stationed on the 10th and 17th floors are always armed and ordered to arrest anyone who tries to enter without a RED Level clearance and to shoot them if they resist. Each floor has a night and day shift. Dr. Mindy Paine is a virologist and bioengineer who has worked for the government on various projects over the last two decades. Most of them have been projects for the military, but she had never worked on a bioweapon until she was assigned as the night shift lead on Project Stalker. The project is designed to make a weapon that can be introduced to its intended targets via many vectors, where it will sit dormant until released by a kill command. In its perfect form, it can lie dormant and completely untraceable for decades. When activated, it will cause a sudden and violent reaction. Mindy sits in her office reviewing emails on her lunch break and thinking about her most recent fight with her teenage daughter while eating her salad. Since she and her husband divorced last year, her daughter has been slowly but surely going off the rail. Her marks in school have dropped, Mindy barely knows where she is half the time, and before coming into work tonight, she had found a used condom in her kitchen trashcan. Since she hasn’t had s*x in nearly a year and a half, and her fifteen-year-old daughter is the only other occupant of their two-bedroom flat, to say she lost it would be an understatement. She had not hit her child in years, but Grace’s flippant attitude when confronted with the evidence had pushed Mindy over the edge, and an open-palm slap to the face was the consequence. She then left her there on her bed sobbing and called her mother. Unwilling to leave her daughter home alone ever again, she got her mother to come over so that she could go to work. He had called her ex on the way in to discuss the situation since they are supposed to be co-parenting. Of course, all he did was point the finger at her, saying that she would have seen this coming if she spent more time at home than at work. It was the same argument he gave when serving her the divorce papers. When Mindy countered that maybe Grace should come to live with him for a year in Whales, he suddenly had to get off the line for another all. Typical. She is reviewing cost reports when a priority message alert pops up on her screen. She hits open, and her heart stops as she sees what it contains. It is a photo of Grace and her mother bound to chairs in her kitchen with duct tape over their mouths. Behind each is a black-masked figure holding blades to their throats. She has seconds to process what she sees before she jumps in shock as her phone rings inside her desk drawer. She opens it and is shocked to see a cell phone with a USB adapter plugged into the bottom in there. Cellphones are not allowed inside the building, especially not on this floor. Beside that is a gun sitting on top of a piece of paper. She reaches out with a shaking hand and answers it with a shakier voice. Mindy: Hello? Red: Hello, Mindy. My name is Red, and I am the only person who can keep your family alive. If you want that to happen, you will do everything I tell you. Listen closely because I won’t repeat myself. The first thing you will do is take the flash drive containing all the research on Project Stalker from your office safe. Once you have it, you will plug it into the USB adapter on the phone. You have one minute to comply. Every fifteen seconds after that, my men will remove a finger from your mother and daughter. Mindy sobs in terror as she jumps to her feet. She moves to the wall, safe, and it takes her two attempts to enter the ten-digit code with shaking fingers. She opens it, pulls out the red 1TB flash drive, and rushes back to her desk. By the time she fumbles it into the adapter, nearly fifty seconds have passed. Red: Good job, Mindy. Cutting it a little fine, though. Now, when it asks, you will enter your decryption code. The phone screen changes to the code entry screen. She hesitates, knowing that if she does this, she will commit high treason and put Stalker out into the world into the hands of a man willing to maim a fifteen-year-old girl and a seventy-year-old grandmother. Tears fill her eyes as she looks at the photo again. Red: You seem hesitant, Mindy. Here is an incentive. A few seconds later, she received another priority email alert. When she hits open, she watches a live video of her daughter screaming as much as she can pass the duct tape as one of the men removes her pinky finger with a knife. Mindy screams in anguish at the sight. If her office were not soundproof, everyone on the floor would have come running. Mindy: You sick son of b***h! Red: Now, now, Mindy. Name-calling is not very nice. That will cost your mother a finger. Mindy: No! Please, no! I am sorry. Red: Words are cheap, Mindy. Actions are all that matter. Mindy watches in horror as another man removes her screaming mother’s thumb. Mindy pulls at her hair as she sobs and rocks in her chair. Red: Now, the decryption code, Mindy. You have twenty seconds after that Grace loses an ear. Mindy picks up the phone and punches in the code, ensuring that every digit and letter is correct before hitting enter. The screen changes to the upload progress screen. Red: Excellent, Mindy. Now, take out the gun and the piece of paper. Take your time reading it before you sign it. But hurry. You only have a minute. Mindy takes out the gun and the note. Tears well up in her eyes and splash down onto the paper, which she is shocked to find is written in a perfect copy of her handwriting. It details how she was paid several million dollars to upload the research in Stalker to members of Hand of Islam, a splinter cell of the fast-growing ISIS movement. It also details how she could not live with her actions and decided to take her own life. She knows what will happen if she refuses. So, with a shaking hand, she signs the suicide note. Mindy: Can I please speak with my daughter? I want to say goodbye. Red: Of course, Mindy. She looks at her computer and sees that the red light on her has turned green. She realizes that it is how they have been watching her. For them to have the ability to hack into her system, which has the highest levels of protection the British government can offer like this, is terrifying. She puts that from her mind as she looks at her sobbing child. One of the men removes the duct tape from her mouth. Mindy: Grace, baby, can you hear me? Grace looks up into the camera. Grace: Mommy? Mindy: Listen to me, baby. I’m sorry. It will all be okay now, I promise. Please be good for Grandma. I love you so much. Grace: Mommy! The video cuts off. Red: My men will leave and call the coppers to get help for them as soon as you do what you must. Mindy cries silently as she puts the gun under her chin. She closes her eyes and pulls the trigger. After watching Mindy Paine blow her brains out, Red taps the screen of his tablet to speak with his men in her flat. There are three total, all of Arabic descent. Red: Set the bomb timer and leave the area. Make sure you are seen without your masks on by witnesses and the CCTV cameras in the area. Once he receives confirmation, he checks the upload progress. It is already complete. He activated the micro explosive in the cellphone, destroying it. He opens the files and scans the details of the bioweapon, letting out a low whistle at its nastiness and subtly. It is still incomplete, but it is more than ready to serve his purposes. He turns off the tablet returning his office to pitch blackness before pitching up the crystal glass of aged virgin blood from his desk and taking a drink. Soon, the only light in the room is his glowing blue eyes as he savors his drink.

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