Xenotech What Happens: A Novel of the Galactic Free Trade Association (Xenotech Support Book 3)

  I rang the doorbell. We could hear a simple two-toned chime from inside, like the one we’d had in our apartment in Houston when I was growing up. It was hard to wait, but after a few seconds we could hear footsteps from inside. The door opened.

  It wasn’t Cornell or Sally standing there. It was Rosalind, dressed in sneakers, jeans and a t-shirt. Someone small was standing behind her wearing a similar outfit.

  “Hello, Jack,” she said. “I see you’ve figured out that Cornell’s my brother.”

  What?

  The face of a child, a boy around four, peeked around Rosalind. He had light brown hair and freckles across his nose.

  “Jack, this is your son, Telemachus,” said Rosalind, indicating the boy.

  He smiled and looked up at me, a shy smile turning up the corners of his mouth.

  Rosalind bent her knees until her head was even with the boy’s. She put one arm around him and pointed in my direction with the other.

  “Max, this is your daddy.”

  Small arms wrapped around my knees and my universe changed forever.

  Further Adventures

  Please visit

  www.XenotechSupport.com

  for more details about

  the universe of Xenotech Support

  and the Galactic Free Trade Association

  Jack & Poly’s adventures begin in

  Xenotech Rising

  and continue in

  Xenotech Queen’s Gambit

  and

  Xenotech What Happens

  and will soon be followed by

  Xenotech General Mayhem

  Sign up for the Xenotech Support mailing list

  on the web site to get advance notice of publication.

  You may also enjoy a related novelette:

  Xenotech

  The Man Who Sold the Earth

  which tells what happened on First Contact Day

  Dedication & Copyright

  To my fans.

  I hope you’ll forgive me

  for the cliffhanger.

  Copyright © 2016 by Paul David Schroeder

  All Rights Reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

  Cover design by Dan Paulson

  Image of Las Vegas Strip

  thanks to Lasvegaslover under the

  Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

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  About the Author

  Dave Schroeder is a former Chief Information Officer who’s done his share of tech support. He’s served as Chief Technology Officer for a Bay Area dotcom and led the ecommerce division of a major Internet consulting company. He also wrote the book, lyrics and music for Softwear.com, a musical comedy produced off-off-Broadway. Dave lives in suburban Atlanta where he enjoys writing and voice acting with the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company.