In the Ruins by Hailey Turner

Author:Hailey Turner [Turner, Hailey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B072FP3X6C
Published: 2017-05-22T04:00:00+00:00

Alexei, as a rule, didn’t like spies.

Growing up in a refugee city in a contested area, where getting ahead in the queue was tied to who you knew and who you could bribe, spies were everywhere and their allegiances varied. Everyone from the European Alliance’s Security Intelligence Service to the CIA to both Russia’s domestic intelligence arm, the Federal Security Service, and its military one, the Main Intelligence Directorate, and many others, all had their sticky fingers in the disrupted areas of the world.

When he was with Strike Force, Alexei had held deep reservations about being seconded to the CIA during some of their missions. He’d worked with the agency because he wasn’t one to disobey orders, but after Geneva and Cora Everly’s betrayal, Alexei only had severe distrust for anyone with ties to any intelligence agency—and that included the MDF.

He knew the MDF had its own arm of intelligence operatives, people whose jobs were to focus their attention on the shadows in the world that concerned metahumans and the Splice chemical that killed too many, leaving far too few survivors. Last summer had proven to Alexei, once again, that spies couldn’t be trusted.

Which was why he was drinking his coffee across the dining room table from Sean, watching the other man work. Alexei was only thirteen months younger than Sean, but he liked to believe he was wiser. He hadn’t made a career out of lying to people the way spies did, after all.

“Are you going to sit there and watch me work all day?” Sean asked, not looking up from his laptop.

The computer had been separated into its functional parts, with the screen lying flat in the middle of the table to project multiple windows of information into the air while Sean tapped away at the lit-up outline of a keyboard on the opaque surface of the control pad. Alexei eyed Sean through the multiple holoscreens situated between them and took a sip of coffee.

Real coffee, Alexei had come to discover, was amazing. Alexei was going to make Kyle sneak some beans out of the condo his brother shared with Jamie so that he could hoard them at his own apartment. He’d gotten over his need to hoard food after joining the Army, but old habits were hard to break in certain circumstances. Alexei would gladly unearth it again if it meant he got more of this drink after the mission was over.

“Maybe,” Alexei finally said. “What you care?”

“I don’t,” Sean said calmly. “It’s just going to be boring for you. I’m reviewing what the UMG gave us last night on the Reborn IRA and it’s going to take hours. Only place I’d be other than right here would be the bathroom.”

“Fine.”

Sean looked through the holoscreens rather than at them, meeting Alexei’s gaze with exasperated brown eyes. “You’re not seriously thinking about watching me take a piss, are you?”

Alexei shrugged. “Have nothing I not see before.”

Sean didn’t immediately yell at Alexei for that comment or tell him to fuck off.

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