Midnight Fire by Lisa Marie Rice

Author:Lisa Marie Rice [Rice, Lisa Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2015-09-20T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Kearns woke him up at 1:00 a.m., which was vastly annoying. Springer’s wife, Anna, had been nursing a cold and she needed her sleep.

Marcus Springer thumbed the ring to silent before answering, not bothering to keep the note of annoyance out of his voice.

“Yes,” he said coldly, searching with his feet for the Prada slippers. Ah. He stood up, pulled the silk comforter over his sleeping wife’s shoulders and went out into the hallway. “Is something wrong?”

“I waited for the target and finally left some packages for her to discover.”

“And?”

Kearns was silent a moment. “I left a camera outside her door, and outside the front door of her building. Camouflaged. She did not return to the building, but...”

“But?” A cold feeling settled in his gut.

“Somehow someone tipped off the FBI. Their bio team is there right now. I’m watching them going in on my tablet.”

They were very close to completion of the Plan. Springer had wanted to send a message. A strong one. Don’t mess with us. We are stronger than you and we will destroy you.

“Any sign of the Redding woman?”

“No, sir. No sign.”

“She’s gone to ground.”

“Yessir.”

Springer thought. Redding was a good journalist, but she was a woman alone. She had no partner and she ran a business that was good but fragile, like all web-based businesses. Isolate and destroy, he thought.

But first intimidate. Strike terror in her heart.

“Blow up her house. Don’t even try to make it look like an accident. Wherever she’s gone to ground, she should know we have a scorched earth policy.”

“Sir.” No hesitation.

“Then destroy her office.”

“Sir. I don’t think Area 8 has an office. I think it’s headquartered at the woman’s personal address.”

“Even better. We’ll take out her office and home at the same time.”

“Yessir.”

“Who are her co-workers?”

Springer heard tapping, then Kearns came back. “There are two people mentioned on the masthead besides Redding. The rest are freelancers.”

“Take out the two on the masthead. Where are they?”

Another pause. “In the DC area. I’ll take care of those. It’ll be done as fast as possible.”

“Excellent. Hide the bodies. They need to seem to have disappeared. It’ll keep Redding anxious, off-balance.” The Redding woman should know she had no place to turn to. They would come after her and she had no place to hide. She was a journalist, used to pressing forward, not hiding. How long could she evade them? “Full out effort on the Redding woman. Check citywide cameras, check credit card use, check her usual haunts, run her to ground and eliminate. Are we clear?”

“Yessir,” Kearns replied and signed off.

His team had access to vast resources and he could run this off the books almost forever. He didn’t need forever. He just needed three more days and then utter chaos would rule.

No one would remember Summer Redding even existed.

* * *

Summer knew exactly what she was doing. She was going to have blow-your-mind sex with a guy she knew could provide it. Guaranteed. Unless, of course, her memory was off

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