Cassandra's War: A Sci-Fi Corporate Technothriller (The SynCorp Saga Book 2) by Pourteau Chris & Bruns David

Author:Pourteau, Chris & Bruns, David [Pourteau, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hip Phoenix Publishing, LLC
Published: 2018-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Remy Cade • Haven 6, Blue Earth, Minnesota

“Hello, Mr. Cade? Are you with us?” Jansen’s tone dripped with enough condescension that Remy thought he saw other people in the room shift uncomfortably in their seats.

“Sorry. I was distracted.”

“Now that you’re here again,” Jansen said, “what’s the status of the South Carolina refugee evacuation?”

Remy tossed a graphic onto the wallscreen. He’d been given a hard target of safely moving nearly half a million residents from the South Carolina lowland country into neighboring states, mostly Georgia, to prevent uncontrolled migration.

The chart showed he was less than halfway to his goal.

“What seems to be the problem, Mr. Cade?”

He sometimes worried Jansen was onto his espionage mission for the Neos. She certainly didn’t trust him, that much was clear. The irony was, he was taking seriously this relocation assignment by Graves. The South Carolinians just wanted a home again, somewhere to feel safe. He got that .

“Ma’am, I’m not getting a lot of cooperation at the local level—”

“I didn’t ask for excuses, Mr. Cade. You are at this leadership level to deliver results, not whine about local politics. Now, what about the LUNa City quota?”

Remy swallowed. That situation was even worse. He’d been tasked with finding billets for 2,000 refugees on the Moon base and he’d found exactly fifty.

“We are behind quota, ma’am.”

“‘We’? The other relocation officers seem to be meeting their targets, Mr. Cade. All of them except for you.”

Remy felt himself redden under Captain Jansen’s glare.

Jansen looked around the table. “That’ll be all for today, everyone. Mr. Cade?”

Remy stopped on his way to the door.

“Please stay for a moment.”

He reluctantly took his seat again as the room emptied out, pretending to study a spreadsheet.

“Mr. Cade?”

Remy looked up, and to his surprise, Jansen was actually smiling at him. “I have an opportunity for you.”

“Ma’am?” Remy was on his guard.

“I’m running a humanitarian mission up to the border in the morning. I need another body on security.”

A ray of hope opened up in Remy’s mood. “Security? Off-site? I’m in!”

Her smile widened. “I thought you might say that. Meet on the flight deck at 0800 for the pre-mission brief.” She paused. “We’ll need to make sure you’re up to date on your shots. ”

“I’m up to—”

Jansen cut him off. “Remy, it’s not optional.” She stood and strode out of the room before he could say anything else.

Remy sat back in his chair. That was odd. She’d called him Remy. Jansen had never called him Remy before. Maybe this was a sign that they were reaching some kind of equilibrium in their relationship after all.

And he was going off-site! After weeks cooped up inside Haven 6, he was no closer to knowing about the mysterious power plant the Neos cared so much about. His security badge gave him access to most of the Haven with the exception of one R&D deck and anything beyond level 36. As far as he could tell, there was nothing of interest to the Neos here. Just a few thousand people willing to throw their lives away to live in a hole in the ground for the next hundred years.

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