Murphy's Wrath by James Michelle St

Author:James, Michelle St. [James, Michelle St.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Amazon: B07N1NK7JL
Goodreads: 43784874
Publisher: Blackthorn Press
Published: 2019-03-26T07:00:00+00:00

16

Julia squeezed Ronan’s hand as the limo’s back door was opened by one of the guards standing outside the gate to the villa. She forced a bored expression onto her face — she’d studied the few pictures of Anuska Král she could find online and found that this was her most often utilized expression — and stepped from the limo with as much dismissive entitlement as she could muster.

“Identification,” the guard said in accented English. He held a tablet in one hand, a tiny digital wand in the other.

She was aware of Ronan stepping from the limo behind her as she offered the guard her wrist, the diamond watch band glittering in the lights from the cars still in line.

She looked around, trying to look vaguely impatient while he brought the wand up against the watch. Her heart hammered in her chest, the gun she’d strapped under the skirt of her dress burning against her thigh.

A beep sounded from the tablet and the guard looked from its display to Julia’s face, then back again.

He stepped back and waved her through. She was momentarily relieved she hadn’t had to answer any questions, then remembered that she wasn’t done yet: there would be a check at the front door of the villa, assuming they made it that far.

She stepped through the iron gate and waited on a cobblestone path while Ronan proffered his own wrist. Not wanting to seem concerned, she glanced around, watching as another guest — a woman with striking dark hair and eyes so light gray they appeared almost silver — offered the back of her neck to one of the guard’s wands.

Did she have the chip embedded in her skin?

Julia tried to get a better look without being too obvious and thought she caught sight of a tattoo that might have been the Manifest symbol at the woman’s hairline. A moment later the guard cross-checked a picture on his tablet against the face of the woman in front of him.

She returned her gaze to Ronan as the first guard waved him through.

He held out his arm, and Julia tried to hide the trembling of her hand as she took it. It was only the first test, but they’d passed, which meant they were one step closer to Elise.

The air was soft and fragrant, the walkway leading to the villa lined with trees strung with white lights. It might have been a black-tie party for celebrities or wealthy philanthropists, and Julia’s stomach turned as she thought about everything they’d learned about Manifest: trafficking, arms dealing to terrorist groups, even black market organ harvesting.

She had to get Elise away from these people, and it had to be tonight. If Braden Kane was right — and Ronan said his sources were as good as they got — the girls would soon be auctioned.

After that, finding them would be next to impossible.

She reconsidered their decision not to use a comms system to allow for communication between Nick, Declan, Clay, and her and Ronan.

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