Hell on Wheels by Julie Ann Walker

Author:Julie Ann Walker
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: www.dpgroup.org
ISBN: 9781452609249
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 2012-08-12T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“ETA on Christian, Mac, and Jamin is forty-eight hours,” Becky reported as she stood leaning a slim shoulder against the metal doorjamb to Frank’s office.

The sight of her there, so negligent and unknowingly sexy and so, so…young made Frank grit his teeth as he reached for the one thing that would keep him from jumping down her perfectly lovely throat just for being her. For being the one thing on the face of the planet he craved more than those damned root beer Dum Dums, or that new shipment of thermal imagery optics they’d all been waiting on for the last two weeks, or…or his next stinking breath, come to think of it.

“Jamin?”

“Yeah,” she crossed one bare foot over the other. Her little toenails were painted a bright, do-me-big-boy red.

He’d always thought it crazily intriguing that a girl…woman…girl…shit! Woman, she was a woman, he told himself. A young woman. A young woman who was more often than not covered in thick grease. A young woman who was better than any man he knew at rebuilding an engine—any engine. A young woman who could fabricate sheet metal into anything her creative brain could conceive of with the help of a blowtorch and a mallet. And it was strange and enchanting and goddamned beguiling that a woman like that could be so girly as to insist on having a weekly mani and pedi.

“You know, our new…er, guest of the Israeli persuasion,” she said and he yanked his attention away from those fascinating little toes. “That’s the alias Christian picked out for the guy.”

Ah, yes. That goddamned Mossad agent.

Great. That was just great. One more thing he didn’t want to think about.

“He’s not a guest. Supposedly, he’s gonna be an asset to us.”

Becky raised a skeptical brow, and he could only shrug in silent agreement. He was more than a bit leery himself.

“On a separate note,” she continued, “Steady says he’s staying an extra day at the conference, something about a historical lecture on wound excision and early reconstruction in the treatment of compound fractures during the first World War.” She rolled her eyes. “Sounds über-boring if you ask me, but no one ever does.”

She shot him a meaningful look that he responded to with an equally meaningful scowl.

“Anywho,” she continued, “Rock and Billy checked in to say they’d be home at the end of the week, and all’s quiet on the eastern front, as it were. Ghost and Ali are about an hour outside of Jacksonville, and Ghost says he’ll contact us once he has the zip drive.”

It suddenly occurred to Frank, all this should be coming from Ozzie. He narrowed his eyes. “Where’s the kid?”

“He’s elbow deep in the flight control systems of the Hawk,” she said. “He closely resembled a guy with a terminal case of ants in his pants waiting for his turn at the helo. And seeing as how I successfully, and without detection I might add,” she pantomimed doing a little curtsy, “hacked Eyes in the

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