True Believer (Dark Reflections)

By Dean Murray

Thrust into a supernatural world populated by shape shifters, werewolves, and even darker things, Adam no longer knows who he can trust.

Alec Graves saved his life and thereby earned his service, but Adam continues to worry that Alec is no better than the things he claims to be fighting.

Adam’s been assigned his next job. Alec claims that the target is a ruthless group of vampires, but Adam isn’t so sure such a thing really exists. He’s either about to gun down a bunch of innocents or walk alone into the home turf of a group of creatures that could easily rip him in half.

Neither option seems particularly smart, but Adam’s not entirely sure Alec’s minions are going to let him pass on this assignment.

True Believer is a 3,800 word short story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Firshan Publishing, Inc
• Release date: Nov 24, 2011
• ISBN: 9781301962662

Dean Murray

Dean started reading seriously in the second grade due to a competition and has spent most of the subsequent three decades lost in other people's worlds. After reading several local libraries more or less dry of sci-fi and fantasy, he started spending more time wandering around worlds of his own creation to avoid the boredom of the 'real' world.Things worsened, or improved depending on your point of view, when he first started experimenting with writing while finishing up his accounting degree. These days Dean has a wonderful wife and daughter to keep him rather more grounded, but the idea of bringing others along with him as he meets interesting new people in universes nobody else has ever seen tends to drag him back to his computer on a fairly regular basis.

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True Believer

by Dean Murray

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2011 by Dean Murray

What's got you so jittery? It isn't like you haven't killed people before.

Adam resisted the urge to pull a knife and cut James up. There were actually a number of different reasons not to mix things up with James. Firstly he was Alec's right hand man, and Adam was sworn to Alec's service. Also, because the shape shifter was nearly strong enough to bench press the small car they were sitting in.

Pulling the trigger to end some terrorist from half a mile away is different than walking into a club and blowing away some civilian.

You're right. All that crap in the sandbox was just a bunch of humans working themselves into killing frenzies. Mostly so some tycoons could add some zero's to the end of their portfolio. This actually matters.

Despite his relative youth, Adam had spent more time in war zones than he sometimes liked to think about. He was used to being around high-testosterone alpha types; he wasn't used to being the runt of the litter. When it came to the supernatural beings he was currently running with, he was definitely outclassed.

"So you say. What proof do I have that this woman is really a threat? For all I know it's just one more move in the long process of adding zeros to Alec's net worth."

"You're not very trusting are you? Listen, there are good reasons for Alec to be