Midnight Revenge by Kennedy Elle

Author:Kennedy, Elle [Kennedy, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-02-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

The call finally came in. Finally. Bryant had been waiting for a report ever since the team leader in Cancún had informed him that the prisoner was on the move. But the man had been completely useless for nearly forty-eight hours. A puking, sniveling mess, taking his sweet-ass time contacting his colleagues.

No wonder he’d gotten captured. If he’d been a trained Smith operative, he never would’ve wound up on that fucking island to begin with.

“He made a phone call,” the leader of Bryant’s ground crew reported.

Triumph surged through him. He stalked to the wet bar in the corner of his office and poured a glass of Scotch as he addressed his man. “Any idea who he contacted?”

“Negative. He used a pay phone in a town near the beach. Too far away for us to hear what was being said, but we can contact the phone company and trace the call if you’d like.”

Lord, there were still pay phones in existence? Bryant had figured cellular technology would have rendered them all obsolete.

“Don’t bother. Whoever he called, he’ll be leading you right to them. Focus on tailing him. Check in the moment he makes contact with his people.”

“Roger that.”

Bryant hung up and took a deep swig of his Scotch, but it wasn’t alcohol he tasted—it was victory. Mendez’s prisoner was going to lead him straight to Derek.

He basked in the satisfaction of that, of knowing he would see his former operative soon. Derek Pratt had made a mockery of what the agency stood for. He’d taken everything Bryant had so willingly given him, and then thrown it back in Bryant’s face.

Ungrateful bastard.

His phone rang again, interrupting his thoughts. Jones was checking in. Good. It was crucial that Jones keep a watchful eye on Mendez now that the prisoner was free.

“We’ve got a problem,” was the first thing Jones said.

“Has Mendez left the island?”

“No. But Derek Pratt just showed up.”

Bryant froze. The glass in his hand shook as he absorbed the shock.

“Are you serious?” he hissed into the phone.

“As a fucking heart attack. He landed about ten minutes ago. Him and some woman.” Jones cursed softly. “Shit is about to explode, sir. I’m talking Hiroshima-level explosion here.”

Bryant didn’t get rattled often, but son of a bitch, he was rattled right now. Derek was on Isla del Rey? How the fuck had that happened? How had Derek surfaced without landing on the radar of a single one of Bryant’s people?

He took a breath to calm himself. “Has Mendez seen him yet?”

“They’re meeting as we speak. From what I’ve managed to learn, Pratt abducted Mendez’s daughter. He wants to trade her for the prisoner.”

The prisoner that Jones had let go.

Shit. Things were absolutely about to explode.

“Mendez is scrambling,” Jones went on. “He’s got every available man combing the mainland for the prisoner. The island too.”

“You’re telling me that after two days of searching the island, the idiot still thinks there’s a chance the prisoner didn’t make it to the mainland?”

“Mendez is a stubborn motherfucker.” Jones snorted.

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