Booth felt compelled to comment. “If you weren’t a one-man crime spree, you wouldn’t have to run so hard.”

Arrin fixed his dark gaze on Booth. “I have nothing against you, sir, so if you desire to see the sun rise tomorrow, you’d do well to keep quiet.”

Booth opened his mouth as if to retort, glanced at the fancy laser in Arrin’s hand, thought better of it and clamped his mouth shut. He also moved further behind Aluna, just in case.

“What do you want?” Aluna asked, pretending no fear when she actually was terrified by the malice in Arrin’s eyes.

“I’ve come to seek revenge against you for killing our innocent son so you could abuse his body to research clone procreation.” Arrin gripped the laser so tight his...

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