The Unmaking (The Rayne Whitmore Series Book 1) by Alanna Faison Page A

as the company
goes, I am in charge now and though I am going to make small changes, you will
always have a say and hopefully, there will be a way to bring you back from the
dead and you can run it yourself,” Damien tells me.
                “I don’t want to run the
company, that much I know, you can keep it as long I get updated on major
issues and changes. All I want right now is to know what was so important that
my family had to die. What was such a secret?”
                D takes a deep breath and
sighs heavily before leaning back and taking off his sunglasses that he loves
so much. He rubs his face and says, “We were working on special weapons that
would help combat supernatural threats in many ways. Modern technology doesn’t
really seem to have an effect on their kind, so we had to change our way of
thinking. Bullets have no effect unless you shoot them repeatedly with kill
shots and besides, most are too fast to even be shot. We’ve been studying their
nature and developing new tools based on their perceived weaknesses.”
                “We had plans to sell it
to the government. There’s a branch that deals with the Supes but they are
limited on their research because they are a new group and have only found out
about the existence of supernaturals about fifty years ago. Even then, only a
handful of higher ups are privy to this information. They’d very much like to
keep exposure nonexistent as well as deal with the more dangerous of their kind
quickly and quietly.”
                I nod and Damien
continues, trying to quickly get through the background info. “Since then, it
has been hard because many of the supes actually have been working in
government and are even feeding misinformation to humans. They are doing their
best to keep the accurate knowledge to a minimum. They’ve been extremely
successful because most people don’t know what their powers are or how to
recognize someone as ‘different’ from the rest of us. Your father was a
brilliant man however, and brought together the most excellent team, best
contacts, and finest researchers out there because he felt that humans needed
more protection against such a potentially dangerous threat. You see, when your
father was in the military, he came across a werewolf that was on a rampage.
His team was on a mission in the Ukraine and apparently the wolf had been
recently turned without learning to control its urges. He was able to kill it
only because it was too consumed with ripping apart the body of one of his
comrades. That incident was covered up like many others.”
                “It wasn’t hard to connect
the dots. If one existed, then they probably all did. Jason was not prejudiced
and didn’t feel that they were monsters that needed to all be taken out, but
that we mere humans needed extra security. As his research and business grew,
so did his reputation. Jason started to attract the wrong kind of attention and
many of the people in the supernatural community who had inside knowledge of
his weapons wanted him to stop production, sell his products to them as well in
order to use it against members of other ‘races’, or  just for added protection
for themselves. Small stuff, like security enhancements he didn’t mind, but
things that could be too dangerous in the wrong hands, he refused.”
                “His intention was to give
the weapons to the government, the humans he wanted to protect. He even hoped
that one day we could market them to the public under a guise like colored
contacts that keep vampires from glamouring people for example. If the
government had gotten a hold of some of these weapons, then I’m sure the same
thing would have happened. They could have started a war themselves, and this
is where Jason and I disagreed.” Damien takes a small sip of the drink that
Selene had given him once we sat down and then stares me down