In the Shadows (Metahuman Files Book 3) by Hailey Turner

Author:Hailey Turner [Turner, Hailey]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-08-21T16:00:00+00:00

10

Cold War Transmission

“What happened?” Jamie demanded through the SUV’s communications system.

Alexei felt calmer once he had his captain’s voice in his ears. It didn’t 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.

“Let me see,” 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 SUV’s 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.

“Bullet isn’t inside the wound, but I’m not sure about shrapnel,” Sean warned Trevor from the seat in front of him. “And he took a hit from a neuro-jammer gun.”

Trevor’s swearing wasn’t loud enough to drown out Kyle’s shout over the comms. “Inferno got hit with what?”

“How the fuck did they even know to have a neuro-jammer gun?” Madison demanded.

“Is the line secured?” Sean asked, staring at Alexei with a tight expression on his face.

“It’s an MDF setup, so why wouldn’t it be secured?”

“Get someone to double-check.”

“It’s fine—”

“Someone double-check the fucking security of the goddamn line!” 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 Katie’s voice came over the uplink. “Line is fully encrypted and secured.”

Sean rubbed hard at his face, mouth twisting. “Adrian and Declan knew my name. My real name.”

Alexei wanted to reach out and hold Sean’s 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 didn’t have to move all that much for Sean to wrap his fingers around his hand.

“We’ll traceback what happened when you return to base and reassess your covers,” Nazari said in a clipped voice.

“We didn’t make a misstep while in the field here in Las Vegas, sir. They didn’t 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.”

“I knew you must have seen someone,” Madison said. “Who’s this Kevin guy?”

Alexei was having a difficult time paying attention, but every ache in his body momentarily disappeared at Sean’s answer.

“He’s a CIA protective agent assigned to watch over CIA Deputy Director Carter Bennett,” Sean said tightly. “Bennett oversaw my extraction from Belfast and transfer to the MDF. He knows I’m a metahuman.”

Alexei didn’t know he had tightened his hand so hard until Trevor reached out to pry his fingers off Sean’s before his fingernails broke skin.

“Was final

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