Final Scream

by Brookover, David

  Nick was finally at peace with the world. The last of the bloody Final Scream: Terror Island conspirators was terminated.

  Case closed.

  He contemplated the unknown nature of his next assignment but thrust those thoughts aside. He had a promise to keep. And there was a little matter of returning her engagement ring to her over a cozy candlelight dinner and a glass of champagne.

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  The hulking mutant’s horrible features were shrouded behind the deep folds of the black robe’s cowling. Partially hidden in the shadows, the freak of nature leaned against the E.K. Fitzgerald’s upper deck railing and witnessed Nick turn the tables on the stranger and shoot him. Four times. The mutant’s heavy sigh was a raspy wheeze.

  Good ole predictable Nick. He employed his timeworn standby trick, Mortal Eclipse, to save his skin. Again.

  Its terrible mouth split into a coldhearted grin. That tried and true ploy protected Nick from Foster’s bullets, but it wouldn’t shield Nick from him.

  A bass growl rumbled in its beefy chest.

  There was bad blood between them … only Nick wasn’t aware of it yet.

  But he soon would be.

  The monster intended to even the score between them, forcing Nick to feel its excruciating pain by seeing the people he cared about die one by one.

  Starting with his fiancée, Gabriella Wolfe.