SYNCHRONICITY (The Lone Wolf)

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"I must apologize for my rude behavior and lack of attention. You should all know that I've just come into direct contact with the Dream Walker after some twenty-some-odd years."

The eyes of his people and shareholders stared at him.

"I...erm..."

"Should get the hell out of here, that's what you should do, Sebastian," the Chair of the Shareholders told him. "What is her location?"

"By a complete stroke of luck, she's presently at the safe house in Manitou," he said quietly, his eyes blurring as he bent over the paperwork before him. He missed the people around the table exchanging glances as they smiled.

"And that is why Chris isn't here?"

Sebastian nodded. "Yes. As you all know, Judy Massey runs the Bed and Breakfast..."

"I still need to book a room there one weekend..." one of the board members said, half joking.

"Well what the hell are you doing here! Go to her, man!"

"Yeah, get out of here, Sebastian!"

"Absolutely! We can discuss the day's business with you via teleconference...go!"

Sebastian breathed in deeply as he nodded. "Yes, thank you..."

He gathered up the paperwork and shoved it into a haphazard pile, quickly trying to get it organized, only for the papers to fall to the floor. The woman to his right was his administrative assistant, left her seat and helped him with the papers, gathering them up and placing them in order quickly.

"Ah for fuck's sake," he whispered to himself. "I feel like a school boy waiting for the first date to begin..."

The woman chuckled. "I'd like to say that we have all been there, but there's only one Lone Wolf and one Dream Walker, isn't there?" She looked into his eyes as she smiled, holding out the papers to him.

He nodded. "Yes."

"And you've both waited plenty long enough, haven't you?"

She stood to her feet still holding the paperwork in her hands.

"Too long," he whispered.

"Well, safe journey home Sir. Ring the boardroom when you're ready?"

He nodded. "Thanks Kimmy."

"Go get her, Tiger...erm...Wolf...Oh hell, it sounded better in my head..."

He laughed out loud, he couldn't help it. "Thanks. I'll ring you when I'm in the car."

"Sebastian?"

His gaze moved toward her hand laying on the sleeve of his suit jacket. "Yes?"

"Give Ali a huggle from me, okay?"

"I will Kimmy," he replied quietly.

He left the conference room and headed for the elevator but decided to emerge to the parking garage where his car was parked, pulling his key ring from his pocket. He slid into the seat and inserted the keys into the ignition and started the car. Placing his phone into the cradle, he synced the phone to the car so that the phone would be heard over the speakers. He then plugged the phone into the cigarette lighter to help keep the battery going, turning on the AC and pointing the vent toward the phone because he knew that it was going to get very hot and he certainly didn't want the phone to cook; he'd lost too many phones as it was and Topher would definitely chew him a new arsehole if he cooked another mobile phone because it was such a pain to program the devices. There were only two people capable of reprogramming the technology and Topher was one of them. None of the technology they had paid handsomely for was available to the general public yet; they'd paid for a fifteen year lease on the sole rights to the technology, including the satellites to globally link all of their devices and computers together.