Redstone Ever After by Justine Davis

Author:Justine Davis [Davis, Justine]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-08-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

“What in the hell are they after?” Noah Rider paced the Hawk III cabin, staring at the video feed at every sharp turn he made to come back toward the gathered group.

“We have no way of knowing since in their view, they don’t have their quarry,” Reeve said, her words reasonable in contrast to her voice, which sounded as if she wanted to swear just as Rider had.

The two glanced at Draven. “Fine line you’re walking,” Rider said.

“I know.”

“No guarantee what they’ll do when they run out of patience,” Alvera said.

“None,” Draven agreed, eyes fixed on the monitor showing the video feed from the Hawk V.

For a moment, no one said anything. Then, almost uncertainly, Ryan Barton turned to look over his shoulder at Draven.

“Sir? I’ve been thinking…” He stopped, hesitating.

Draven shifted his gaze from the screen to the young tech’s face. Barton might not be security, but he’d done everything asked of him and then some. “Go ahead.”

“If one of those goofs decides to check out that computer, or tries to boot it up…”

He paused. Draven doubted either of these two would, but he never discarded input out of hand. Especially when it came to computers; he was a good end user, but Barton’s knowledge was far, far beyond that. “What?”

“I was thinking if I set up a reverse feed, from here to the system there, we could use it to give them info. You know, whatever we wanted.”

Draven blinked.

“I mean,” Barton hastened to go on, “we could send them fake weather reports about a storm, fake news reports, make them nervous, that kind of thing.”

Draven stared at the young man with the spiky, blond-tipped hair.

“I just thought it might help at some point,” Barton said, sounding embarrassed now.

Draven put a hand on Barton’s shoulder. “You,” he said, “are a credit to Josh’s instincts.”

Barton’s eyes widened, and he flushed slightly. “Thanks,” he muttered.

“You can get that ready, just in case?”

“Absolutely!”

Barton went to work immediately on his own sleek, racy-looking laptop, which Draven guessed was probably more powerful than most corporate servers. The rest of them continued to watch the feed.

“You think we can just wait them out?” Alvera asked.

His voice was even, but Draven didn’t miss the undertone. He wasn’t surprised; he had figured it would be Alvera, ever the man of action, who would chafe first at the waiting.

Or Tess, he thought with an inward smile. She was one for getting the job done, and now. And she inevitably did it well and with Redstone style.

Now Josh had infinite patience. He was a firm believer in the maxim that if the opposition was in the process of self-destructing, get out of the way and let them do it. Something Draven himself believed in, for the most part.

As long as they don’t take you down with them, he thought.

The problem with waiting, besides being frustrating, was that the more time they had, the more chance there was that these two seemingly inept conspirators would tumble to the fact

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