Final Target: Six Assassins Book 6 by Heskett Jim & Thacker Nick

Author:Heskett, Jim & Thacker, Nick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Turtleshell Press
Published: 2020-06-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

EMBER

Five minutes had already passed. Zach sat in his car, head down, working on his laptop. Ember was the closest to him, hunkered down between the hood of his car and the concrete divider at the edge of the parking lot. The tac vest weighed her down, but no way would she roll into this situation without one.

She breathed, trying to shake off the events of last night at Pink Door. It had been reckless and sloppy. Ember couldn’t afford any distractions now.

There was only one way for vehicles to access the roof, and a walking bridge from the terminal for pedestrians. Her position shielded her from both. At this early hour, they’d received no foot traffic on the bridge. If this became a situation where they had to account for witnesses, then the whole game would change.

Zach’s window was cracked so Ember could feed him status updates from her observational spot. She figured this would be for the best, to help Zach resist the urge to crane his neck around every few seconds. That would tip off Firedrake to the ruse, for sure.

Layne and Serena were at strategic points nearby, each about a hundred feet away. Layne had put himself between a Toyota and a Subaru. Serena hid behind a construction barricade opposite Layne. They were both hidden, but within Ember’s eyesight, forming a triangle of area coverage. Layne and Serena had an effortless nonverbal communication between them. Ember admired that.

Five more minutes passed without incident. Not a single airport-goer had come walking this way, and no cars. The sun had barely risen, and Ember hadn’t seen a plane land since they’d been here. Perhaps more importantly, Ember had seen no one from the DAC. She had continued to receive the threatening texts and voicemails from fellow Club members angry about discovering her true identity. But none of them had found her yet.

As had happened over the last few weeks during any length of time Ember was alone with her thoughts, she dwelled. Not only on her failures last night, but on people. She dwelled on the faces of Charlie, Gabe, Isabel, and now Fagan. She kept picturing Fagan standing in front of her chore whiteboard in the Boulder Post Office, cracking dry jokes about separating out recycling while dabbing loose spit from the edge of her burned lips. Fagan, who had so much knowledge and wisdom to pass on, Fagan, who had been one of the longest-tenured members of Boulder Branch. One of the oldest in the entire Club. And, with one pull of a pistol’s trigger, Fagan’s light had gone out. Ember had been the one responsible for depriving the world of that woman. A woman Ember had idolized for three solid years in the DAC.

Nothing could bring her back. But Ember suspected that Fagan would want her to succeed. It seemed like a strange supposition, given that Fagan had tried to kill her four days ago. Ember believed it, though. Fagan would want Ember to get out from underneath all of this mess.

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