In the Shadows by Hailey Turner
Author:Hailey Turner [Turner, Hailey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0752CJ2C7
Published: 2017-08-22T04:00:00+00:00
10
Cold War Transmission
âWhat happened?â Jamie demanded through the SUVâs communications system.
Alexei felt calmer once he had his captainâs voice in his ears. It didnât do anything to alleviate the fiery pain in his side, nor the migraine-level ache in his head that left him feeling sick to his stomach and weak in body. The neuro-jammer bolt had barely clipped him, but even that was enough to wreak havoc on his nervous system.
âLet me see,â Trevor said, batting his hand away from the towel he was holding against the bloody wound in his side.
Alexei blinked rapidly, staring up at the SUVâs roof as he tried to swallow back the bile crawling up his throat. Trevor had a field med-glove on and the cold touch of the device on his skin made him grimace.
âBullet isnât inside the wound, but Iâm not sure about shrapnel,â Sean warned Trevor from the seat in front of him. âAnd he took a hit from a neuro-jammer gun.â
Trevorâs swearing wasnât loud enough to drown out Kyleâs shout over the comms. âInferno got hit with what?â
âHow the fuck did they even know to have a neuro-jammer gun?â Madison demanded.
âIs the line secured?â Sean asked, staring at Alexei with a tight expression on his face.
âItâs an MDF setup, so why wouldnât it be secured?â
âGet someone to double-check.â
âItâs fineââ
âSomeone double-check the fucking security of the goddamn line!â Sean snarled in a tone of voice none of them had ever heard come out of his mouth before.
A tense silence filled the SUV for a good minute before Katieâs voice came over the uplink. âLine is fully encrypted and secured.â
Sean rubbed hard at his face, mouth twisting. âAdrian and Declan knew my name. My real name.â
Alexei wanted to reach out and hold Seanâs hand, but it took everything he had at the moment not to get sick all over the car as Trevor worked on him. Sean must have seen something in his face, because he twisted in his seat a little more and draped an arm over the back. Alexei didnât have to move all that much for Sean to wrap his fingers around his hand.
âWeâll traceback what happened when you return to base and reassess your covers,â Nazari said in a clipped voice.
âWe didnât make a misstep while in the field here in Las Vegas, sir. They didnât find out because we slipped up somehow. Before our meeting with Declan, I saw Kevin Stableford in the lobby as he was leaving the casino.â
âI knew you must have seen someone,â Madison said. âWhoâs this Kevin guy?â
Alexei was having a difficult time paying attention, but every ache in his body momentarily disappeared at Seanâs answer.
âHeâs a CIA protective agent assigned to watch over CIA Deputy Director Carter Bennett,â Sean said tightly. âBennett oversaw my extraction from Belfast and transfer to the MDF. He knows Iâm a metahuman.â
Alexei didnât know he had tightened his hand so hard until Trevor reached out to pry his fingers off Seanâs before his fingernails broke skin.
âWas final
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