A Boy Called Hawk by Kate Stradling

Author:Kate Stradling [Stradling, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eulalia Skye Press
Published: 2012-03-18T04:00:00+00:00

Article II, Section 1

Sore Loser

July 3, 8:36pm pdt, GCA Regional Office, Las Vegas

“Argh!” Oliver picked up a book from the table and hurled it full force against the opposite wall. One corner of the spine struck the texture, leaving behind a visible indentation as the book tumbled to the ground.

“Why didn’t they listen to me?” he yelled. “I told them Hawk was alone! Why couldn’t they have hung back and followed him?”

Emily sat in silence on the couch, no less frustrated but content to allow Oliver to vent his frustration on her behalf. They had arrived in Las Vegas, only to be whisked into a waiting black sedan and taken directly to the suburb where the West children’s relative lived. The house was already under surveillance, as was the man himself. No suspicious phone calls had come either to his place of work or to his home, and there had been no reports of four children in the neighborhood. Nor had the national hotline received any word of Maddie or Alex North beyond the train station that afternoon.

For all they had known at the time, the West children had moved on to another city, had never intended to contact their mother’s cousin in the first place. As Oliver and Emily waited, the cousin, Paul Reynolds, had arrived home only to emerge from his house again in jogging attire, with his big yellow dog on a leash and his small son pulling a bicycle from the garage. Reynolds kissed his wife goodbye and started down the road.

When Oliver had turned an inquiring eye upon the agent who sat in the back of the sedan with them, the man explained that Reynolds jogged every evening, and usually took the dog and the boy along. “We’re having someone tail him with a surveillance camera, but it’s probably too early to hope for anything. Like I said, he’s still following his evening routine, and he’s had no outside contact yet.”

“That you know of,” said Oliver darkly.

The agent didn’t acknowledge this statement but instead produced a monitor for them to watch over their target. He jogged a leisurely path down the block and around the corner, where he headed towards a nearby park. A few other joggers and cyclists were there, and obviously there was nothing suspicious about a jogger heading to a park. It wasn’t until Oliver caught sight of one of the bicyclists that he sat up in alarm.

“That’s Hawk,” he said, with growing excitement. “What is he, stupid? Where are the others?”

Emily had leaned over to peer at the screen and caught her first glimpse of thirteen-year-old Hawk West, the boy who had orchestrated so much trouble for the Prometheus Institute, not to mention for her and Oliver. He looked anxious and innocent. For an instant she felt sorry for him, to be chased down by an agency that was so much more powerful than he was.

The agent had already grabbed his radio. “We have positive identification of Jefferson West. Intercept immediately!”

“Wait,” said Oliver.

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