Delta Force Desire by C.J. Miller

Author:C.J. Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Nothing in those eyes was vacant. Arsenic was the same as she had remembered. Too thin, tall, with sharp eyes and a beak-shaped nose that reminded her of a hawk.

He aimed a gun at her head. “Why are you looking for me? What do you want?”

How had he known? “It’s me, Kit Walker. Lotus. Zoya told me to find you.” Kit could say this without selling Zoya out, since she was dead.

“I know who you are. Where is Zoya?” he asked.

Sadness tightened her throat. “Dead.”

“You’re lying!” His voice lacked conviction.

She wished she was. “Incognito is hunting us. Killing or capturing everyone who’s worked on the Locker. Incognito followed us to Gamer Con. Zoya’s husband sold us out. He planned to hand us over to Incognito but ended up killing himself and her.”

Arsenic’s eyes narrowed. “I told her not to go to Gamer Con.”

What was the relationship between Arsenic and Zoya? He spoke of her with a closeness and softness in his voice.

“I’m sorry for your loss. It was truly awful,” Kit said.

“How did you escape them? Did they follow you?”

Arsenic’s arms were lifted above his head, and the gun clattered to the floor. Griffin had moved so quietly, Kit hadn’t heard him enter the hotel room. Griffin shoved Arsenic into the dresser.

Griffin held the gun on Arsenic. “Who are you?”

Kit stepped in front of Griffin, causing him to lower his gun. “Griffin, stop. This is Arsenic. He’s scared, too. He’s here to find out why we’re looking for him.” Though he had broken into her hotel room and pointed a gun at her, she sensed he wasn’t planning to harm her. He wanted to protect himself.

Griffin grabbed Arsenic and hauled him to his feet. “Talk fast.”

“You came looking for me. I needed to know why,” Arsenic said.

Griffin released Arsenic but didn’t take his eyes off him.

Arsenic laughed, a sick, maniacal laugh. “Building the Locker was a mistake. I shouldn’t have signed on for the project. I should never have let anyone have it. It’s too strong. It can be used for the wrong reasons.”

“It’s protected the United States’ networks for years,” Kit said carefully. Lawrence had implied the US was using it for nefarious purposes. Kit wasn’t naive, but she believed that the work she had done had been in support of a country she loved. Had she been wrong to believe it was being used for good?

“It does those things, but once it’s been compromised, it’s a failure. A six-hundred-million-dollar failure. Every day some young hotshot comes up the ranks and learns a new way to break into systems. Ways you and I never thought of and using technology that didn’t exist five years ago. How can anything protect itself against that?” Arsenic asked.

“Will you help us counter Incognito’s attempt to gain full control of the Locker?” Kit asked.

Arsenic shook his head. “I don’t want to get involved with another Locker. It was hard enough to get out the first time.”

Kit tried to keep up, but she was missing an important part of the story.

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