Time to look in on the other player in this game... ------   Chapter 15. Jared checked himself in the polished glass of his car’s windows one last time before walking up the white gravel pathway to the villa. He was already somewhat concerned; there was no sign of the level of security he felt was necessary, given the circumstances. There had been adequate security on Aphrodite’s yacht, a few years ago when he had first met her, but here there seemed to be no more than the standard for any private villa. He reached the door; [ Continue reading... ]

Let's look back in on our other viewpoint... -----   Chapter 11. Jared waited for the signal that Walküre had been chocked, and then began the process of shutting the aircraft down, going over every item on the checklist, down to physically verifying that the plane was, indeed, properly chocked and secured by the attending personnel. Jet aircraft were finicky things and needed proper care—and if you were going to depend on them when you were at thirty thousand feet above an ocean, three thousand miles from land, you had better [ Continue reading... ]