Aimpoint by Candace Irvin

Author:Candace Irvin [Irvin, Candace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-952413-06-3
Publisher: Blind Edge Press

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Forty-five minutes later and a mere fifteen seconds after turning into the hospital's main parking lot, Regan had even more proof that the burner phone was connected to John. It was attached above the left rear bumper of the silver Wrangler parked three feet to her left: a Kansas plate. John's Kansas plate.

He was here, in this hospital.

Intriguingly, General Ertonç was not. Not unless there'd been a last-minute change of plans.

The moment she'd hung up with Jelling, she'd texted Mira about the general's schedule. Ertonç was locked into back-to-back meetings at Hohenfels, then Vilseck, until sixteen hundred that afternoon.

So why was his US Army liaison here at the klinikum and not at his side?

Arranging last minute details for the general's appointment? Or was Ertonç's health worse than she'd feared? Had John arrived in advance to prep the hospital for a pending VIP admission?

John was right; she had connected with Ertonç during those raw moments in the conference room. More than enough to sincerely hope he was okay.

Time to find out.

Uncertain as to what awaited her inside the building, Regan opted to drive the Tiguan into the adjacent lot, taking care to park in a slot that wasn't visible from the Wrangler or the path John would naturally take when walking back to it. With Rachel Pace's headgear firmly in place, she bailed out of the car and headed straight for the ER's main doors. She'd canvass the klinikum floor by floor if she had to, but she would locate John—and then she'd decide if it was prudent to reveal her own presence to him.

Success came sooner than she'd thought, and exactly where she'd feared.

Oncology.

Regan stepped out of the elevators and immediately faded into the antiseptic corridor off her right, edging back deep enough to ensure John couldn't see her—not that he was looking.

The captain stood twenty feet away, on the opposite side of the central-hub nurses' station from where that call had originated. Unlike her, he wasn't bothering to keep a low profile. It would've been difficult if he'd wanted to. Not only was John also in ACUs, he was deep in conversation with a dark-haired, lightly bearded Middle Eastern male sporting a white physician's coat.

Curiously, she had the distinct impression that John and the doctor knew each other, and well. Though they looked to be roughly the same age, the doc was at least half a foot shorter and a good hundred pounds lighter than the captain.

Both appeared unfazed by the inequity as they stood toe-to-toe, locked in a polite, though seemingly fundamental, disagreement.

Even more curious, John appeared to be losing.

Regan could feel his frustration from where she stood. He was doing his damnedest to keep it hidden, as he had the night before with his anger with LaCroix before she'd driven away. But hints were bleeding through, mostly in the faint tension in his shoulders and jaw. Though she wasn't close enough to verify, she suspected that telling pulse of his was clipping along at a daunting pace.

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