Sometimes what might have been gets in the way of what is.

Philip Dunstan is in the midst of a career as a hit man, and it suits his nature to a T. Until it suddenly doesn't. Odd how a split-second look on a woman's face can change a life forever.

Can his boss, TJ Blackwell really be as omnipotent and all-knowing as he seems? Is he a demon, a god, or only human? In the first Blackwell Ops book, Jack Tilden showed us how difficult it is to get into Blackwell Ops. But how hard is it to get out?

This is part one of Philip Dunstan's story, as told to the author. As always, only the more sensitive parts of this story are fictionalized. Everything else is true.