Ignited (Titanium Security Series) by Cross Kaylea

Author:Cross, Kaylea [Cross, Kaylea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780991905027
Publisher: Kaylea Cross
Published: 2013-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Oh, fuck him, this was the last thing they needed.

Hunter gauged Khalia’s reaction to the news. With everything that had happened he kept waiting for her to crack under the strain, and so far she’d hung in there better than he ever could have expected. Even so, he couldn’t help but feel like this was the tipping point and he couldn’t stand the thought of watching her break. And with this new strain he was very afraid she might.

Her mouth was pinched, her forehead creased with an anxious frown as she stared at her phone. She squeezed his hand so tight her fingers were white. The room was deathly silent in the wake of Tom’s announcement.

“Is it Aisha?” she demanded, a quaver in her voice.

“We don’t know yet,” Tom answered.

A muscle jumped in her jaw, her gaze still on the phone’s screen, then she gave a sharp shake of her head. “I can’t tell anything from that picture, it’s too small. Give me my laptop.” She reached an arm toward where it lay beside the sofa Hunter had tried to sleep on earlier. Gage lunged over to grab it and set it on the bed before her. Both he and Hunter gathered closer while she booted up the computer and pulled up Tom’s e-mail.

The image on screen was definitely a map of some kind, drawn with what looked like pencil. Even on the laptop’s larger screen it was still too small for them to make out the writing or symbols all over it. She enlarged it again. “Now it’s blurry. But if I shrink it any more than this I can’t see much of anything.”

“Kind of looks like Pakistan,” Hunter commented, pulling back to angle his head. Although other than the basic shape of it, the remaining marks and blurry symbols didn’t make any sense to him. “Tom, you said they sent this through the company’s website contact form?”

“Yeah, about twenty minutes ago. They included a number for you to call them at when you arrive at the location.”

The one marked with a big star. He glanced at Khalia, who was chewing her bottom lip as she studied the screen. “Any ideas?”

She shook her head, still staring, and he turned his attention to Gage, who gave him a hell if I know look. “Any Urdu or Pashto in there?” Hunter asked him, referring to what might be writing or symbols on the map.

“Not that I can tell,” Gage answered, bending even closer. “Numbers maybe? The writing’s fucking awful.”

“I think it’s a triangle,” Khalia suddenly murmured. All three of them bent their heads closer to squint at the map and the lines set amid the other symbols.

“I see it,” Hunter said at last, mentally connecting the three biggest dots. “What are those down at the bottom, numbers?”

Khalia enlarged the image again to read them better despite the blur, and gasped a moment later. “It’s trig.”

“Huh?” he asked, squinting at the numbers. As in, trigonometry?

“And algebra,” she confirmed, sounding convinced. “They’ve

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