Charles POV | “The Lazarus Game”

“You can’t kill what’s already multiplied.”

The news said I was dead again.

That made three times this decade.

A fitting number, I thought, staring at the flickering television in the corner of the safehouse. Each channel recycled the same headline:

“CHARLES BLACK PRESUMED DEAD IN REFINERY EXPLOSION.”

A different angle of the same fire rolled behind the anchor, the blaze reflected in her glossy eyes like a candlelight vigil.

The irony made me ...