Up Periscope Book Novels & Stories

SERIES NAME : BORN BY POWER SEQUEL NAME : UP RISE OF HELL (BOOK 2) CHAPTER 9 : GRIM REAPER Scene opens up to a wide spread land. Thus, dry it was. Like a desert. Dead trees still, standing still and the bubble clouds, having a bursting purple tint to it. Calypso was caught walking in fright from a high up angle. "John!" She yelled. His ring, dropped to the floor right before Calypso's feet.

"She finally got the data analysis right. I guess she's not as hopeless as I thought." "She earned a scholarship! She insisted on treating me to a meal." At the time, I felt relieved. It seemed the professor and his assistant had finally developed a much better working relationship. Last month, I learned to make clam chowder from our housekeeper. My hands blistered from mishandling the hot pot, and I made plenty of mistakes along the way, but I was thrilled with the result. I filled a thermos with the chowder and went to Xavier's college so he could try it.

I ate, slept, and worked around Aurelia Heights, running on almost no rest for over ninety days. For the sake of confidentiality, I had told everyone I was doing delivery work. Even Claire had no idea I was actually on an undercover operation. “I didn’t forget. I just finished my last order. I’ll be there soon.” Twenty minutes later, I walked into the private dining room carrying two bottles of premium single-malt Scotch I had bought on the way. There were seven or eight people inside. Besides Claire and her parents, a heavyset middle-aged man sat in the seat of honor.

oh, holy shit. I stuck my head in the hole I had made with my hands. I was still holding the book so it was awkward. The curtain was heavy and it wanted to close back but I barely noticed. A surprised gasp escaped my lips. I could practically see the whole club from up here. To the left was the wall Daniel attached me to the other night. To the far right, the stage. The middle aisle where we walked and watched those scenes the first night, the dividing walls meant nothing, this far up. I could see everything. No one was down there this early. Well, maybe a cleaning crew. I saw a couple of cleaning carts near the VIP rooms way in the back.