Rebel's Consort - Phoenix Book 1 by KH LeMoyne

Author:KH LeMoyne [LeMoyne, KH]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Digital Crystal Press
Published: 2011-10-30T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Trace crouched and punched a series of numbers into an ankle-high security pad outside his entry. Five minutes without the appropriate acknowledgement sequence, and the self-detonation program would launch. Ten minutes, and the four-story ruin would erupt in a ball of flames fed from a pocket of gas beneath the basement floor. Over the last eight hours, he’d cleared out his other two safe stashes with only this final one to go.

His duffel hit the floor as he hurried to his lab. Reducing large screens of data to pebble size, grabbing tools and drugs, and activating their safeguards, he stacked a pile to pack. Paranoid maybe, but Rasmond’s warning wasn’t something his gut could discount. That she knew his identity wasn’t important. That she’d let him know after her warning meant she knew more than was safe to relay in the open and the trouble was serious.

He ran his fingers through his hair and pulled, trying to recall his path over the last two days before he’d gone to Analena’s. He searched his memory for any mistake he might have made, which would link her to him. Nothing obvious stood out. It didn’t rule out others being aware of who she was or what she did.

Hell, he hoped not.

He turned for a visual sweep of his lab as a message flashed on his wall. He had left the message cubes for last to pack.

Onyx?

Need priority help.

Thinking the call a standard reach-out for his services and not seeing Piper’s moniker, or any moniker, he almost ignored the message.

Shepherd: Wolf status?

Damn. Aaron. Why had the kid not followed protocol?

Wolf: Need Onyx

Trace clipped in his acknowledgement before Shepherd could circumvent the distress call. Confirm—status?

Wolf: Piper hit—critical— Pickup

Stunned, Trace hesitated. It wasn’t possible. She’d been safe for years, before he’d ever set eyes on her. Now that he knew she was flesh and blood, she’d been taken down?

Wolf: please

Confirm Pickup —medical status?

Wolf: Priority 10— unconscious—abdominal bleeding—BP >60/40.”

Highest priority, bleeding and dropping blood pressure. She’d performed an extraction in broad daylight. What had she been thinking?

He shook his head. She hadn’t been thinking. She’d assessed a risk and couldn’t let the kid hang out until nightfall. As always, she worried about the kids before considering her own danger.

Pickup location?

Wolf: SOP—tomorrow PM 11—Cassiopeia.

Tomorrow PM, translation: today, eleven AM. He had ten minutes. With a quick glance around his lab, he cataloged what he still needed to do.

Confirm

Time enough to pack up, bug out, and blow up.

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