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afraid I could lose you,” he
confesses.
    She pulls off a fractured heart necklace
dangling from her neck. She takes the two heart pieces in her hand.
“My mother said this broken heart was her heart, but she would
always love me in spite of my mistakes. Here...”
    She puts one piece in his hand, then closes
his fist around it.
    Parks says, “That was her gift to you before
she died. No...”
    She puts her finger on his lips, “Don’t say
anything...I want you to keep this as the symbol of our love
Nicholas. Keeping that half lets you know that my heart can only be
whole as long as we’re together. To Hell with Alomet.”
    She kisses him with passion and love.

Chapter 8
    Vicki is sitting
inside Dr. Landau’s office, with a serious look on her face. “It’s
no use. My fiancé’s against it. I’m not going anywhere without
him.”
    Dr. Landau paces nervously back and forth
behind his desk with his putter as a cane. “I understand. Maybe I
could talk to him, try to make him understand how important this
project is to the country; appeal to the patriot in him.”
    “I don’t think you understand doctor. That’s
impossible. Once he, no, not he, we , decide to do something,
we will never change our mind. Nicholas Parks is one stubborn man,
and I love him for that. We decided no together.”
    He changes into a calm demeanor, leans over
and shakes her hand. “My dear, please call me if you change your
mind. You’re always welcome to join our team.”
    “No, I’ll never join...no thank you” as she
exits through the door.
    Henry has been standing, arms crossed, with
his back to the wall, watching, like the Sphinx, smiling like
always. The man seems almost giddy with that smile of his.
    Dr. Landau’s face tenses, and his eyes
narrow into cracks, no longer looking like the cool TV doctor, but
now a force of evil boils from within. Through clenched teeth he
hisses, “My dear Henry, Dr. Collins boyfriend is going to stop my
project.”
    “Should I implement Clear Sail?” he asks the
doctor.
    Dr. Landau trembles as he tries to regain
control of his emotions, “I’m running out of time.” He moves to the
putting ramp and pulls a ball towards him, but whacks it back so
hard it jumps the ramp and slams into the wall. “Nobody will stop
our project. It’s too important to the cause.”
    His breathing becomes deeper as he works
himself to a frenzy while his eyes dart, twitching back and forth,
seeming to change into fireballs from Hell to Henry. He raises the
putter above his head like a sledgehammer, hits the ball return and
smashes it to pieces. He’s in a crazed fury, turns, and spots the
aquarium, then sits down softly in his chair, slowly smooths his
hair back. Now, he takes a deep breath, expels it very slow.
    But immediately, his breathing quickens,
faster and faster until he leaps out of his chair. “No one ever
tells me ‘no’!”
    He swings the putter like a ball bat,
destroying the front glass of the aquarium. The water gushes out in
a slow motion, the aftermath is shattered glass and expensive
flopping fish on the floor.
    Landau’s exhausted and relieved as he
straightens his tie. He quickly places himself back to a settled
silence. The man now says in a clear, calm voice as he sits down,
“My dear Henry, terminate the problem.”

Chapter 9
    Inside their condo,
Parks readies a candlelight dinner in the dining room. He wants to
give a welcome home and thank you meal to Vicki for turning Landau
down. He moves to the oven to check on the roast, pinches a taste
off of it, smiles, and then shuts the door. He pauses, turns his
head side-to-side.
    Hell, they would not even know where they
were going to live. The secret life would be theirs in total
isolation from the outside world. The worst part would be that they
would be under the control of Alomet enforcing the National Secrets
Act on them. Put Vicki in a lab working and she’s totally happy,
even out in La La land. But what about him? He shakes