Garret's Gambit by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer [Mayer, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773363271
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2021-02-15T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

As soon as Garret and Kano returned to the car, Astra leaned forward and asked, “What did you find?”

“We found an empty apartment, and somebody who had just arrived, heading up there. He was on his phone, talking about bringing somebody. Hopefully they’re bringing my brother.”

“So now what?” she asked, and she could hardly control the excitement in her voice.

“You, nothing.” Garret said. He turned back to look at Charles.

Charles just shrugged. “Sure, we could have stayed home,” he said. “But I have to admit, a little bit of fieldwork is good for me too.”

At that, Kano laughed. “You get plenty of fieldwork, and it all comes through your house.”

“Maybe,” he said cheerfully, “but I’ll never say no to the company of a lovely lady. I like to have things operate out of my own sphere,” he said, “but we’ve enjoyed a couple lovely little pubs.”

“And I got to drink some of his beer,” she said.

Garret turned and looked at her in surprise. “I knew it. What is it with you and the beer?”

She shrugged. “What can I say? I like a good brew.”

Garret flashed a grin at her, and then Kano whispered, “They’ve got company.”

At that, silence fell in their vehicle, and they all were focused on what they might see and hear. She watched as another vehicle pulled up behind the first one. “I wonder if Gregg is in there.”

As they watched, two men got out and headed toward the vehicle. As they approached, the two men in the first vehicle got out as well. There seemed to be some sort of conflict going on; then one of the men in the second vehicle pulled out a handgun, fired several shots and killed both of the men from the first vehicle.

She gasped in shock. “Oh, my God. Oh, my God,” she whispered.

Charles reached over and gently patted her hand. She looked at him. The men, although their faces were grim and dark, didn’t appear to be all that surprised.

She said, “If Gregg’s in that car—”

“If he’s in that car,” he said, “believe me, they’re not taking him. But we don’t know yet that he’s actually in that vehicle.”

“But weren’t they supposed to bring him?”

“Yes,” he said, “somebody was to bring someone. But that doesn’t mean this is the same group. We may be dealing with a separate group here.”

“I don’t like all this secret spy stuff,” she said mutinously.

Charles gave a chuckle. “For somebody who doesn’t like it, you’ve spent quite a lot of time in the industry.”

“Sure, but behind the scenes,” she said. “I don’t have to deal with this stuff, person to person.”

“It’s good for everyone to deal with it like this, to some degree,” Charles said. “You really don’t understand what’s going on in the world, until you see it at this level.”

She had to agree with him, but she didn’t like it. As she watched, the two men who had killed the other two now turned, looked up at the apartment, had a discussion, and then made their way into the apartment, as if to check it out themselves.

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