SEAL Team Ten by Leslie North

Author:Leslie North [North, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

Toni sank into a chair in her new, windowless office space, her hands shaking as badly as her knees. It had taken all her strength to put on a brave front before Spencer Nixon, but now that she was alone, the shock and terror were definitely catching up with her.

This wasn’t how she wanted to live her life, constantly looking over her shoulder for the next attack, constantly afraid. An introvert at heart, putting herself into the limelight for the sake of her foundation was hard enough without people trying to shoot her. Still, it was an act she’d perfected over the years out of necessity.

Speaking of necessity…

She picked up the note she’d asked Spencer to translate and stared at the words. Toni had learned passable Arabic in order to better communicate with her contacts at relief organizations in the Middle East and could read the thing well enough herself, but she’d gone through more than her fair share of bodyguards these past couple of months. This time she’d wanted to make sure she got someone who could back up their claims.

Interesting that he’d not said a word about the part of the note that mentioned the e-readers. Part of her was glad. Maybe he considered the idea as absurd as she did. Normally, she wouldn’t bother with conspiracy blogs, but the rumors had been so persistent that her PR manager had thought she’d want to know, just in case it got picked up by mainstream media and was brought up as a barb against her in interviews. So far, the rumor had stayed in the shadows—where it belonged. Conspiracy theorists might like to spin wild ideas, but out in the real world, the concept of secret, coded intel funneled like dirty money through charitable organizations was too outlandish to be believed. It was all just lies used as weapons to destroy the good she’d tried to accomplish in her family’s name.

And it was the only part of her work that had gotten any kind of acknowledgment from her father at all. Not that he’d gone so far as to praise her or tell her he was proud of her—that was a pipe dream she knew better than to hope for—but when she’d shared her idea of bringing e-readers to children around the world, he’d stepped up to make her vision a reality. He’d paid for the e-readers and had them preloaded with stories. It showed that he believed in her, even if he’d never say it aloud. And that was why she wouldn’t let anything get in the way of fulfilling the organization’s goals and delivering those e-readers. No matter how many threats she received.

Irritated, she shoved the note aside for the cops to take into evidence.

It really wasn’t all about her father. Not anymore. She believed in this charity mission. Access to education was the most powerful weapon the world had when it came to lifting people out of poverty. Jubail had a reputation as a rich nation, but that was only when you took the average.

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