Guarded (Hostage Rescue Team Series Book 12) by Cross Kaylea

Author:Cross, Kaylea [Cross, Kaylea]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Tags: Hostage Rescue Team
Publisher: Kaylea Cross Inc.
Published: 2018-07-22T16:00:00+00:00

Matt was surprised when Harding picked up the phone when he called the number. “Greg. It’s Matt DeLuca. I got down here as soon as I could. Want to tell me what’s going on?”

Everyone in the mobile command center was staring at him. Tuck stood off in the far corner, the rest of Blue Team waiting outside. They were parked a block from the target house. Outside, it was getting dark already. The entire neighborhood was locked down, swarming with cops and FBI agents.

“It’s too late,” Harding said in misery. “It’s no good.”

“It’s not too late,” Matt said, watching the chief negotiator, who was analyzing every word they spoke.

Harding was becoming increasingly unstable and it seemed to be accelerating. He was on at least six different psychiatric meds, and no one knew if he’d simply stopped taking them or if something else had gone wrong. Over the past few months his mental state and marriage had deteriorated, to the point where the wife had finally decided to leave him and take the children with her.

Matt tried again. “I came all the way down here because you asked for me. Let me help.”

The negotiator nodded at him, made a circling motion with his hand to keep going.

“Sherry’s gonna leave me. She swears she won’t now but I know she’s lying.” A muffled sob came through the line. “She’s gonna fucking leave me after all we’ve been through together, and take the girls with her. She’s got somebody else, I know it. My life’s over.”

Matt’s number one priority was getting the wife and kids out unharmed. Doing the same for Harding was a distant second, history between them or not. “It’s not over, Greg, and we’re here to help. Do the right thing, let Sherry and the girls go, then come out and give yourself up so we can talk.”

Harding let out a bitter laugh. “You think I’m that stupid? That it’s that easy? You had the chance to help me years ago and you fucking walked away, left me to deal with everything on my own. We were friends, I thought I could count on you, and then you cut me out of your life.”

Matt clenched his jaw and waited a beat. He wasn’t responsible for Harding’s actions. And they’d never been friends. “Let them go, Greg, then come out and we’ll talk.”

“I don’t think so.”

It was like a switch had flipped in the guy’s brain. Matt looked at Tuck, the evil edge to Harding’s voice making the back of his neck tingle. Tuck nodded and jumped out the door to get the team in place for an assault.

“Greg. Listen to me. I can help you.”

“No, you listen to me. You think you’re a hero for making the sacrifice to show up here to save the day? That you’re the original American badass because you were a Scout/Sniper and went on to become the HRT commander? Well I know the truth.”

He didn’t like the ominous tone or the direction this was headed.

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