The Eye of Moses - Vatican Knights Series 22 (2020), Rick Jones [learn to read books txt] 📗
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As he walked amongst Nature’s serene clime, he began to take stock of his life. He had always been the best he could be as a soldier, though he was not always in tune with the ways of the church. Nevertheless, he provided them with a valuable service: Protect those who could not protect themselves and do so with loyalty above all else except honor. It had become his life over the years, his motto. But in Switzerland he had been shown that Father Time remains unbeaten. Salt had showed Kimball that he was equal to the Vatican Knight’s skills set, perhaps the moment a telling one. Perhaps, he was losing his edge with the advancement of aging.
Then he wondered if things would have been different with the backing of the Vatican Knights instead of the Consortium. Good men had died, all but two within a group of many. Would he have fared better if he’d had his Vatican Knights? Would they have been able to stem the high number of kills? Though the Consortium was a guild with specialized global practices that had the numbers to keep them going, Kimball wondered what he could have done to save the lives of those within the group in Switzerland. The answer: He would never truly know.
Now with the Vatican in his rearview mirror for the moment, Kimball was looking ahead.
One who wore his cleric’s shirt and Roman Catholic collar out of conviction, today he wore a checkered flannel shirt and jacket. Inside the shirt pocket was the band of his cleric’s collar, a true treasure and reminder of where he had been and where he was going.
As he crested the gravel road and began his downward trek to the clearing of the log cabin which he could marginally see through the boughs of the pines, he began to see something that did not appear proper or characteristic to the surroundings. Then as he walked into the clearing, he saw something that was ugly and hideously incongruent to the nature of the log cabin, but at the same time it was something never so beautiful, never so appropriate.
It was a white-picket fence.
During his mission in Switzerland with the Consortium Group, Shari had taken the time to deliver him a lifelong dream: a simple life. In time there would be a garden filled with the blooms of colorful flowers. There would be a grill. A dog.
And there would be children.
As he approached the cabin, Shari tossed aside the door and stood on the deck, watching and smiling for a brief moment before she launched herself forward and raced to Kimball, after he dropped his backpack and raised his arms to accept her embrace.
Before this cabin that was surrounded by a white-picket fence, they kissed. And as they did, the clouds parted enough for a biblical beam to slant downward to alight on them both, a spotlight.
The shaft was warm and all encompassing.
And in the end, when it mattered most, Kimball Hayden had finally received the Light.
THE END
Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
CHAPTER THIRTY
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
CHAPTER FORTY
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
CHAPTER FIFTY
CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE
CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO
CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE
CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR
CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX
CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN
CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT
CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE
CHAPTER SIXTY
CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE
CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO
CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE
CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR
CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE
CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX
CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN
CHAPTER SIXTY-EIGHT
CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE
CHAPTER SEVENTY
CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE
CHAPTER SEVENTY-TWO
CHAPTER SEVENTY-THREE
CHAPTER SEVENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER SEVENTY-FIVE
CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX
CHAPTER SEVENTY-SEVEN
CHAPTER SEVENTY-EIGHT
CHAPTER SEVENTY-NINE
CHAPTER EIGHTY
CHAPTER EIGHTY-ONE
CHAPTER EIGHTY-TWO
EPILOGUE
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