I pulled up to the curb at JFK and Lea grabbed the door handle. "If you run into any trouble, call me on the burner."

We each had a burner phone, one that couldn't be tracked or traced. Just one of the many goodies we'd stolen from Victor's goodies.

"You do the same."

And then she was gone. I was never going to get a hug from her, but that was okay. She had other ways of showing me how much she cared.

Though Derrick was gone, I knew I wasn't alone.

Hours later, I sat in a leather director's chair while hair and makeup people powdered my face and fluffed my hair. Wardrobe had dressed me in a black turtleneck and dark jeans along with a tan jacket. They wanted me to have feminine appeal for the viewers, yet I had to convey strength and grit, or no one would believe I'd uncovered such a vast conspiracy.

"I'm Rachel Sambrook. For the last two years, Derrick Forrester, a fellow journalist, worked nonstop to discover the truth behind the U.S. government's experimentation on prisoners of war. What the two of us discovered went far deeper than either of us thought. Derrick died to expose the atrocities our government has committed, but I vowed to keep digging until I had uncovered the entire truth. Derrick's work was not in vain. What I'm about to report might seem unbelievable, but before I'm done, you'll question everything you know to be true."

No, Derrick hadn't died in vain. I suspected there was a whole lot more. I vowed to keep digging until it was all exposed to the light of day.

Or die trying.

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Recombinant (The Blood Borne Series, Book 1).

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