R. Cooper - Let There Be Light by R. Cooper

Author:R. Cooper [Cooper, R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

R. Cooper

Let There Be Light |

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that he would be protecting a government asset on a trip to Stamboul—a scientist who had not lasted two days at the training facility in the North. Hart’s objections then had been overruled.

He had stopped objecting aloud after that. But his mood about his assignment had not improved until they had been in a palace in Stamboul and Karol had stopped complaining and snapped to attention over a seemingly harmless switch in the wall and discovered a secret panel, and behind that a device recording their voices in wax—which he had then proceeded to yell obscenities into.

On the return trip, in a tiny train compartment, exhausted and only slightly singed, Hart had asked why a scientist like Karol had asked to do this work when he could have done anything else. Karol had answered him with an eye roll and then stared out the window.

“My father had a belief— tikkun olam—contribute to the world. Perfect it. Leave it a better place,” he’d said minutes later, when Hart had just let himself ease into his seat. Then Karol had turned to him and offered him a blindingly beautiful, incredibly cocky smile. “And also I was curious. How hard can it be if monkeys do it?”

By which he’d meant Hart, and had never taken that back no matter how many times Hart had saved his life afterward. Though he had looked ridiculously grateful—if startled—the first time Hart had shoved him to the ground and given return fire, and then only alarmingly thoughtful when Hart had done the same time and time again without hesitation.

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