Just Tonight by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blake Pierce
Published: 2023-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Connor moved away from Cami to take the call, feeling deeply troubled. This situation was escalating – fast, and way out of his control. It was Jacenta calling. She was keeping track of the situation at the FBI as best she could.

He knew she felt responsible, that it was because of her that Cami’s name had come to Bill Oertel’s attention. It wasn’t her fault, of course. But in any case it had happened now, it might be exploding, and they had to try to contain it and prevent any collateral damage.

Particularly to Cami Lark. No way did she deserve this. Not when all the evidence was pointing to the fact her sister had been one of Oertel’s victims. He could not let this man hurt Cami too.

“Any sign of him?” he asked quietly.

“No sign,” Jacenta said, giving Connor the news he hadn’t hoped for. “His house is empty, he hasn't been there. We have an agent outside and another one inside. They're searching through his files, but there's not much to be found. It looks as if he’s sanitized the place.

Grimly, Connor acknowledged the fact. Of course, he was going to do that. He was an FBI agent who knew his betrayal had been discovered. They had a lot of facts stacked up against him already. Maybe they had what they needed, although more would always be helpful. That was not the main concern, though.

The main concern was that they needed him to get to his network. All they had so far were cut-off points. Whoever the others were, they had been very careful. Connor acknowledged that they’d been lucky to get to Oertel at all.

They needed to capture him for the intel he possessed, but also for something that troubled Connor even more – what he might do if he remained at large.

One rogue agent who'd gone bad a long time ago might already have been responsible for organizing several deaths, including Ethan’s. He seemed to have the attitude that dead people were the most effective cutoff there was. Which Connor had to admit, had worked for him so far. Several deaths, several murders over the years, a few disappearances, and Oertel had been able to operate within his dark and illegal framework, undetected, while maintaining a high level position.

The thought gave Connor goosebumps. It was absolutely chilling.

“And his phone?” he asked Jacenta. “Any updates, any progress there?”

“We have two different teams waiting for any signal or any GPS location,” Jacenta said, her voice stressed and frustrated. “Fraser is monitoring them,” she added, referring to Connor’s boss. “But there’s nothing. Nothing at all. We don’t know where he is.”

“Okay. Let’s keep hunting tonight. For now, I want those undercover agents to remain in place where they are.”

“I’ll organize that.”

“And please, keep me up to speed. As soon as you know anything, I want to know it too.”

Connor hung up and headed back to Cami. She was looking at him strangely, and he knew that she knew what that call was about.

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