Shadow by Janie Crouch

Author:Janie Crouch [Crouch, Janie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-15T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

“You and me. Sparring mat. Nineteen hundred.”

The low words giving the time and location were all Gavin had said to Heath when they’d both been in the Linear office this morning.

Heath had been back from the microchip case for three days. Once they’d missed their chance to catch the buyer, there hadn’t been much point in Heath sticking around.

He didn’t know what he could’ve done differently. The man knew—without question—that he wasn’t Troy. It probably hadn’t been hard to find a picture of Troy online.

Craig took it all pretty well, considering how desperate he’d seemed to catch the buyer. Probably because at least they’d stopped the sale of the microchip. Veronica hadn’t been able to provide any more useful information about the buyer, even after being arrested. Like Troy, she’d never talked to the man face to face. Professor Hudson hadn’t been in on it at all, although definitely wouldn’t be teaching again at WCU given his illicit relationship with a student who had used him for further access to the lab.

All in all, a dead end. Craig was frustrated but had decided to turn his attention to finding the mole in his department.

And Heath was back in Oak Creek. No more case to keep him distracted from the gibberish in his head.

And no more Lyn.

She still hadn’t returned any of his calls or messages. At this point, he was starting to think she never would.

Not that he could blame her.

He filled his time as much as possible here, taking on every available class. Since Dorian Lindstrom and his wife, Ray, had had to move away, there was plenty for Heath to take over.

Heath had never been Special Forces like a lot of the other Linear team. But he’d worked plenty of kidnap missions over the past five years that had required surveilling and sometimes rescue attempts in jungles—both the wild and concrete kind—all over the world. He definitely knew enough wilderness survival skills to teach them to civilians.

Actually, Heath wouldn’t mind being alone in the wilderness for a few days right now. Better than the tension around here.

Gavin hadn’t come straight back to Oak Creek after the case. Lyn hadn’t been interested in talking to Gavin any more than she had Heath.

Which had added to Heath’s sins in his friend’s mind.

Heath wasn’t about to try to explain to Gavin that it wasn’t his fault Lyn had been studying something entirely different than what she’d told her family, although he did wish he could stand witness to the fact that she was so passionate about linguistics and languages. You only had to be around her for a few minutes to see that. She loved it.

Heath was never going to understand Sahidic and Bohairic or any of the dead languages of Egypt . . . but there was no doubt she loved it.

And he wasn’t giving up. She’d been on his mind every second since he’d left Reddington City, and he was going to find a way to talk her into at least hearing him out, and hopefully giving their relationship another chance.

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