477 Goodbye, Nick

If you like music while you read, try "Stars" by Skillet. It's what I listened to while writing this chapter!

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~ ZEV ~

The only truly terrifying part was when the security guards stopped the car at the gate. Nick had a communicator in the car and they'd heard chatter on the radios about staff questioning whether they should enter the lab to make sure Nathan was okay because he hadn't come out. And they thought Nick was with him.

Sasha and Zev held each other, both of them praying, as Zev listened to his sort-of-father lie like a professional when the guards stopped him before letting him through the compound fence. It threw his already twisted emotions into even greater turmoil.

Nick snorted like their question was ridiculous. "Nathan's working late tonight. A sudden discovery—he thinks the kid might not just be human after all. I'm taking the samples to our friends out of state."

"Now?"