Savage Alliance by R.T. Wolfe

Author:R.T. Wolfe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
Published: 2017-01-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

The new brushes Duncan ordered from Canada had arrived. Windsor and Newton. The studio he created in Andy's guest room didn't have a suitable easel or seating, but it had been so long since Duncan had painted, he dove in like a child in a candy store. The outline of his Nickie formed on the free hand paper in front of him. It was as he remembered her that day, standing in front of the room full of people she respected, presenting the most perilous proposal of her life.

He needed proper lighting, a bigger canvas and more comfortable clothing. None of it mattered that evening. His Nickie, his partner, his wife. She was coming closer to grasping her purpose, her meaning. Not that precise moment, of course. Currently, she was thirty minutes into her standard forty-five minute shower. The true meaning that had become her life had become his as well. He assumed this happened to people who became as one.

A deep charcoal created the lines of her hips and thighs as they fit beneath the slacks she'd chosen that morning. The purest of blues created the curves that filled her blouse and her posture. Golden browns helped express the way she spoke with her hands.

Most of his life had been marred with his memory, his curse. He searched from location to location and occupation to occupation for his reason for being. He spent his childhood pretending it wasn't real, his high school and college years using it for selfish ambitions.

He'd searched for purpose in the armed forces and left with post traumatic stress disorder. Painting for the rich and famous? The time had been the pinnacle of his failed attempts, yet its essence was what brought him and his Nickie together.

The sound of her hair dryer ceased. In the few years spent with this woman, he'd been part of rescuing more abused children, finding more missing women and saving more captive persons than he could have dreamed of in his wildest imagination. And he had a vivid imagination.

Her boots deserved the deepest of his blacks. He chose the medium that would leave the best impression of the black patent leather ones she'd chosen for that day. The door to the bathroom cracked but didn't open. He assumed she released the moisture from the air inside.

They were going to succeed. Operation Fu Haizi. The words written in Special Agent Hurst's handwriting would be etched in Duncan's mind for the rest of his life. Red and in all capital letters. In less than two weeks, they were going to gather the rest of the damning data from the Peru headquarters database, rescue the children from the eight locations, arrest the pedophiles identified on the hacked databases and put Jun Zheng and Edward and Ivanna Monticello away for the rest of their lives.

He blinked at the movement from the corner of his eyes. His Nickie stood in her pajamas, a new pair of shorts she'd purchased since the fire. They had pink ruffles around the bottoms and matched the color of the lacy tank she'd put on.

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