"Gone"
Chapter 16
"Faith"
STANDARD DISCLAIMER: See: Chapter 1
Zeta stood in front of the oak wardrobe.
"You be careful, Dear," Nikki's mother fretted.
"I will," he promised.
"You'd better come back to us in one piece!" her mother continued. Her hands fumbled briefly at the back of her neck. "Here," she said, fastening the gold chain and its dangling cross around his neck. "May He watch over and protect you." Her beliefs weren't his, but he accepted the gesture for what it was.
"Thank you," he murmured, dropping the cross down inside his shirt. Nikki stepped forward and embraced him.
"Ready to go?" Fitz asked impatiently. Zeta nodded.
CONTINUED IN CHAPTER 17, "Day of Atonement"
