Higgins by C G Cooper & Karen Rought

Author:C G Cooper & Karen Rought [Cooper, C G & Rought, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JBD Entertainment, LLC
Published: 2019-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

Higgins awoke with a start. The only visible light came from the crescent moon shining through his window. He lay there for a moment getting his bearings. All was quiet in the hallway. He was alone and safe. No more woods. No more worrying about bugs, and bears, and whatever went bump in the night.

It took him a solid minute to realize why he had been pulled from his slumber. His brain, as it usually did, continued to work out problems he couldn’t solve while he was awake, and had jolted him into consciousness in order to utilize his full resources.

Something had been bothering him about the real bomb they’d found outside that cabin. Its presence was alarming enough, but its placement was peculiar. There was no guarantee which direction the candidates would be coming in to ambush the cabin. In fact, the one area they were sure to avoid was the path.

When Higgins woke up in the middle of the night, he knew without a doubt that the bomb had not been intended for them. It had been intended for someone else, maybe someone in the cadre of instructors.

He replayed the scene in his head one more time. Decker calling for the bomb squad. The four of them waiting outside the blast radius until the experts showed up with the resources to detonate the bomb safely. Higgins had felt the shockwave alter the beating of his heart, and despite being perfectly protected, he felt a sense of queasiness that didn’t go away until he was safely back in his tiny room at Headquarters.

Decker had refused to answer any questions. He’d packed the team of three up in his car and headed back down the mountain. The several hours back to HQ were spent in awkward silence, broken only occasionally by awkward jokes. Even Abrams was subdued.

Higgins’s mind spun in circles. The bomb had been planted with purpose, but for what purpose? Decker obviously had more information than the rest of them, but Higgins couldn’t figure out what it was the man refused to share.

This new assumption that the bomb was meant for someone higher up the food chain – perhaps Decker specifically — precluded any more sleep for Higgins. It didn’t help that they’d been instructed to keep news of the bomb quiet until someone could figure out what it meant.

Higgins had to talk to someone. Johnson wasn’t an option, but Abrams was.

He got up without getting dressed and slipped out of his room and down the hall. He’d never been to Abrams’s room before but knew roughly where it was. The trick was not being seen by anyone else. Strictly speaking, everyone was supposed to keep to themselves—and wandering around CIA quarters in the middle of the night was more than a little suspicious.

He tiptoed his way down the hall and knocked with a single knuckle on Abrams’s door, his heart pounding. After a tense moment of silence, he knocked again, a little louder. When another sixty seconds passed, he tried the doorknob.

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