Prisoners of War (Broken Arrow Mercenary Force Book 2) by Rick Partlow & Drew Avera

Author:Rick Partlow & Drew Avera [Partlow, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-15T22:00:00+00:00

11

“I never said I was going to help you,” Jenny reminded her, sullen and taciturn in the front passenger’s seat beside Roach. “As a matter of fact, I think I said in no uncertain terms I was not going to help you. And I don’t want to go back to whatever hole in the wall you’re calling a base. You can drop me off in the Fry.”

“Jenny,” Fuller said quietly from the back seat, where he’d gone without protest, which was more than she could say for Ramirez, “I’m afraid we may be past that. You keep a low profile, but you ain’t exactly a state secret. People know who you are, and now the wrong people know you’ve been seen with us.”

Roach wanted to speak up, wanted to get tough with the woman and tell her she was going to share what she knew with them or get a boot in the ass, but Fuller knew her better so she stayed silent and drove. The road back through Norfolk to the old Coast Guard base was rough and broken, jammed with old cars and downed cell towers in places, treacherous even in good weather, and this wasn’t, and it was better she kept her full concentration on it.

“I should’ve just deleted your damned message,” Jenny grumbled, her voice strained. Roach didn’t know how much of that was frustration from her situation and how much was pain from the shrapnel wound. Fuller had dressed it in the truck with the small field medical kit they kept in the glove compartment, but it needed stitches. “Should’ve known you were nothing but trouble.”

“To be fair, darlin’,” Fuller said, “we didn’t know what we were dealing with. And we still don’t. Given that you’re sort of stuck with us now, maybe you should fill us in on what you know.”

Jenny said nothing for several seconds, the silence broken only by the thump of the tires on ruts in the road and the squeak of the truck’s suspension. Roach felt like turning on the radio and playing some music from her phone, but she just drove and waited patiently. Patience was not an easy thing for her and she was feeling quite proud of herself.

“The guy you showed me,” Jenny finally broke the silence, “used to be a Russian operative. I don’t know what his real name is, but everyone called him Prizrak.”

“Used to be?” Roach interrupted. Jenny glared at her, but she shrugged it off. “You mean he doesn’t work for the Russians?”

“It’s complicated. What’s happening isn’t quite as straightforward as the Department of Defense tells you. This isn’t as much an invasion by another country’s army so much as it is different factions in the Russian government trying to seize strategic areas to prove they should be the ones in charge. Which means what we’ve wound up with is the equivalent of a gangland turf war.”

“Does that make us the cops?” Ramirez wondered from the back seat. “I’ve never liked cops.”

“You’re not much of a cop,” Roach said scathingly.

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