Embers of Empire by Mark Goodwin

Author:Mark Goodwin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Goodwin America Corp

Monday morning, the five-person team sat in Ulysses’ trailer which was a mile and a half away from the Hodges’ farm, at the public park. When the team left earlier that morning, Sam and Betty had understood something heavy was about to go down, but they’d seemed to know better than to ask questions.

Ulysses pointed to the map saved on his laptop. “The convention center and the library at UT are going to be the biggest collection points. They’ll have the highest turnout, the most visibility, and they’ll be the most heavily staffed. The two smaller drop-off centers are up north. One is in a strip mall in Windsor Hills. The other is all the way up near Round Rock, in an office park. Those two are extra credit. If anything doesn’t look right at those two, we’ll walk away in a heartbeat. But the convention center and UT, we need those for this operation to be considered a win.”

“The ones up north are a long drive.” Ava studied the map.

“About twenty minutes away from the two down south; a straight shot down I-35. We’ll split up into two teams. Charity will make the drops up north, then a two-person team will stay there until she makes the drops down south. Once those two devices have been delivered, we’ll coordinate the detonations at the convention center and the office park. The two teams will rush to their secondary targets and fire off the other two bombs. Both teams will keep driving in their respective directions and meet in the middle. We’ll get off I-35 at Anderson Lane and take that west. It’s the scenic route, but that’s good. It gives us time to identify any potential tails before coming back here.”

“Sounds good. What are the teams?” Charity asked.

“James and Ava will stay up north. Foley and I will escort you south.”

“Nope, not gonna happen.” James shook his head. “You can’t ask me to be split up from my wife. I don’t like being in this situation in the first place, but I’m definitely not getting separated from her.”

Foley said, “Ulysses and I are the experienced gunfighters. You should trust us to take care of her.”

James waved his hands. “I know that’s the logical answer, but she’s my wife. And that trumps logic. I’m not bending on this one. Rework the teams.”

Ulysses looked at James as if he were contemplating how he was going to respond. Finally, he said, “Okay. I’ll take the north side by myself. If something goes wrong up there, I can address it alone. If Charity hits a snag, you’ll need all the shooters in one location.

“But all the phones will be connected, and I’ll be calling the shots. Once we leave this parking lot, no one argues, no one questions my decisions. Got it?” Ulysses glared at James harshly.

James nodded and looked away.

Ulysses armed the four IEDs and placed them in the bottom of four separate green, metal ammo cans. Next, he covered the devices with boxes of ammunition and clamped the lids shut.

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