Out of the Dark by Mandy M. Roth

Author:Mandy M. Roth [Roth, Mandy M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Raven Happy Hour LLC

Chapter Ten

Abel limped along the side of a building, a few blocks downwind from the gallery. It wasn’t a foolproof move to keep the operatives from tailing him, but it was what he could manage at the moment, considering the state he was in.

He held his chest as pain radiated throughout him, his hand coated in blood that wasn’t his own. He still wasn’t entirely sure what had struck him through the wall when he’d been in the warehouse. His hair had stood on end and a strange sensation of building static had started a second before it had felt as if someone had taken a sledgehammer to him.

A large number of rounds had gone through the relatively thin walls in the gallery. Had they hit something that ultimately resulted in a short in the wiring? One that maybe caused an overload in some manner?

There was no rational explanation for what he’d endured. Unless Wheeler had abilities that weren’t noted in his charts. Could that be?

If so, why hadn’t Abel developed them?

The smell of burnt flesh consumed his senses. It was like a cross between rotting meat and a cookout where the burgers on the grill had been left unattended far too long. His overly heightened supernatural senses magnified the gut-churning smell, making it difficult for him to both concentrate on the task at hand and keep from vomiting.

He knew he was the source of the stench. That whatever had happened to him within the art gallery had given him electrical burns. What he didn’t know was how that had come to be.

The mission had been cut-and-dried. The X-factor variables had been considered and compensated for by those in The Corporation whose job it was to oversee such things. They’d interceded the second word reached them that Wheeler’s status as a PSI Shadow Agent had been initiated. The ink hadn’t even been dry on the paperwork when The Corporation had launched into action.

They’d put their best hackers on the case and as soon as it became clear what Wheeler’s friends were trying to do—get him moved safely to one of the labs operated by PSI—The Corporation had stepped in. They’d fuddled with the system, making it look as though hiring a private-sector service would be the quickest and easiest way to get Wheeler moved. They’d covered their tracks as well, making sure no one would ever know they’d been in the computer systems of PSI once again, or that they had men on the inside, feeding them information.

In the past few months, PSI and its affiliates had begun closing ranks. Tightening their circles of trust and locking down access to records even more than normal. Not that normal was anything lax to begin with.

Abel knew how secret organizations worked, and PSI was one of the best-kept ones. Only a select few humans knew of its existence, yet it had been around in some form or another for centuries. It operated in plain sight of the public but under various guises

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