Bad Blood by L. A. Banks

Author:L. A. Banks
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Good and Evil
ISBN: 9780312949112
Publisher: Bill
Published: 0101-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

They rode the rest of the way in silence.

She watched Hunter turn off the primary forest road to an unpaved, gravel-pitted one covered by ice and snow that soon gave way to true four-by-four territory. After what seemed like forever, he brought the truck to a desolate area within a stand of tall trees next to a tiny cabin. He said nothing as he studied the area for a moment and then drove slowly to what seemed like snow-covered underbrush, opened the door, and jumped down out of the truck. Thoroughly intrigued, she watched him uncover a blind large enough to hide the truck and then slowly return to drive them into the dark enclosure.

“You’ve done this before, I take it?” she said, getting out as he unloaded their backpacked supplies onto a snowmobile with a small carrier rack attached to it.

He didn’t respond, just continued to conceal the truck.

“Should I be worried?”

“Not if it snows good and hard before morning,” he said, bringing the snowmobile out to the bumpy road area.

“Why are we hiding?” She wrapped her arms around herself and waited.

“Why were you under surveillance?” He stared at her without blinking.

“I don’t know,” she finally said. “Maybe they think I’ve got what Rod has… had.”

“Then I don’t know why we’re hiding. But right now it feels like I’m traveling with a military fugitive. So taking precautionary measures seems prudent. Aren’t those the guys that have missiles, if pissed off?”

Unable to argue the point, she unfolded her arms and walked forward, climbing into the snowmobile beside him.

“I just have one question. How is this whole shadow group or whatever you call it funded?”

He placed his hand on the ignition key, but didn’t turn it, and glared at her. “The tribal casinos have a secret, off-the-books fund for this. Call it investment protection of their territories.”

“Oh.” She looked off into the woods.

“Any more questions?”

“Not right now,” she said, lifting her chin. “Just wanted to be sure that drugs or something like the illegal sale of arms or technology to other nations wasn’t funding this.” She turned to issue him a pointed look.

“Shouldn’t we be working together instead of fighting each other? We’re not that different, and our objectives are the same.”

“Oh… we’re different.”

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“How?” he demanded, clearly losing patience with her. “Because you work for the government?” He shook his head. “Try this concept on for size. We’re secretly funded and I bet your project is not an obvious line item in the national budget, probably buried under layers of bullshit, Sasha. And if you’ve ever heard of the Iran-Contra scandal, that had something to do with drugs and guns being illegally converted to cash to support secret government projects, or did I read the newspapers wrong?”

He leaned in closer when she turned away again. “We’re small, your group is small. We’re underground, your group is underground. We use a network of shamans, you probably use a network of surveillance since your technology replaces what our people with gifted perception do naturally.

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