Soul Raging by Ronie Kendig

Author:Ronie Kendig
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense;FIC042060;FIC030000;FIC002000
ISBN: 9781493428151
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2020-10-12T00:00:00+00:00

Dru dried off, wrapped the towel around his waist, and stepped out of the shower. Yesterday’s bombshell invasion of the joint chiefs and SECDEF, who decided Reaper needed overwatch in the form of Colonel Nesto, had been enough to make Dru leave the bunker before he resigned in anger and frustration. Alene had known they were coming, and that was the bugger of it all. He’d been betrayed by his own. Back home, he’d had too much bourbon as he sat, thinking. Trying to figure out how to get Leif back and not get anyone killed.

He shook his head as he stepped into a pair of boxers and strode into the bedroom. His phone lit with a new call. He glanced at the screen, shock trickling through his system at the notification.

VOICEMAIL FROM RH.

The sense of being haunted rushed through him. “How . . . ?” Rutger Hermanns had died two days ago! He coded in and retrieved the message.

“I must warn you, old friend,” came Hermanns’ heavy, weighted voice. “I trusted the intel you provided for the facility in South Africa. I trusted that you wanted answers as much as we did and to make those responsible pay, so I gave it to them. I sent them down there. We trusted you, and you ambushed them. Perhaps I should not be surprised—it was a long game, and these days, can we truly know friend from foe?”

Dru lowered his head and covered his eyes. He had received and passed on bad intel. Intel that cost lives. He balled his fist. Hermanns was right—who was friend and who was foe? Apparently Wheeler wasn’t the friend he’d thought.

“But that is neither here nor there. I call because my time is up. I will soon be dead. Veratti is aware of my betrayal, just as Leif is now aware of yours. He knows, Dru. He knows the intel came from you.”

Dru stared up at the ceiling, as if he could escape.

“I should not tell you this, but in the chance that the intel was a mistake, that you yourself were fooled, I warn you. He will come for you, my friend. They will come, demanding answers and much more. Though I have sent him a video detailing everything I know and encouraging him to look past his own wounds, I cannot stop what he intends, and I am not sure that I would want to.” A pause gaped through the line, then the sound of sniffling. “We trusted you. And that was met with betrayal.”

Dru expelled what felt like a toxic breath as the call ended. “It wasn’t me,” he muttered. But it was. Just not on purpose. Running a hand down the back of his neck, he reached for his slacks—and froze.

His gut cinched. He shot a glance around the room.

You’re overreacting.

But he wasn’t. He’d laid the tie straight. Now its end was flipped up, pointing toward the door. Swallowing the acrid taste in his mouth, he checked his phone. No notices from his security alarm.

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