Shane by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773363769
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2020-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Shelly woke and sat up with a start. A stranger was in the room, over by the table. She looked at the man in question and asked, “Who are you?”

“My name is Larry,” he said quietly. “Shane and Diesel left me in charge.”

“How are they?” she asked, pushing back the covers and realizing that somebody, likely Diesel, had thrown a blanket over the top of her.

“No word yet,” he said.

She winced. “How long have they been gone?”

“Over three hours.” He studied her quietly and said, “If you want, we can order up some coffee. If you think you can go back to sleep, that would be for the best.”

“What time is it? Three o’clock in the morning?”

“After four actually,” he said.

“When are they due back?”

“Anytime,” he said. “That just means there are probably complications.”

“Crap.”

“One of the things that you learn about this business,” he said, “is that there are always complications.”

“So it’s all about pivoting and adjusting as needed.” She hopped up, went into the bathroom, and splashed some cold water on her face, wishing she would have woken up later. But now that she knew, she didn’t think there was any hope at all of her going back to sleep. As a matter of fact, as she checked her watch, it was a quarter to five. Back in the room, she sat down and said, “My name is Shelly. It’s nice to meet you.”

“Nice to meet you too,” he said, with a ghost of a smile.

She studied that smile and said, “Shane warned you that I would be difficult, didn’t he?”

“He said you might be a tad upset that they left without telling you.”

“No, that’s so typical of him,” she said. “I just want him to get back safe again.”

“We all do,” he said.

“Any update on his family?” He shook his head, and she smiled. “Would you tell me if there was?” He shook his head again. She sighed. “You cloak-and-dagger guys are all the same.”

“We all have responsibilities and duties, yes,” he said. “If that makes us all the same, well, maybe so.”

She sighed. “If you don’t know anything, how will we know if something goes wrong?”

“When the news reports hit the TV,” he said calmly.

She stared at him in shock. “Seriously?”

He shrugged. “Well, if the building blows up,” he said, “there’ll be a huge boom, and that’s one way to get information,” he said. “However, we’re hoping that something subtler happens.”

“A boom,” she said faintly.

He nodded slowly. “The entire building is wired.”

She sucked in a breath. “I know he does bomb squad and is some sort of an explosives expert.”

“Sometimes it’s just not worth the effort,” he said.

“Meaning?”

“Meaning, sometimes it’s wired and cross-wired, and they don’t have time to figure it out. It doesn’t matter how much skill you have if it’s just too big of a job to manage in too short of an amount of time.”

“So then what?” she asked. She hopped to her feet and paced. “He shouldn’t even be over here in the first place.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.