Special Forces: Operation Alpha: Shadowing Milly (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Alice Bello

Author:Alice Bello [Bello, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2018-05-16T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Troy (aka, the Shadow)

I’d left Milly alone for less than an hour and her tracker pinged that she was leaving New York City.

WTF?

This was not my problem.

She was probably just driving out of the city to cool off, maybe an already planned get away.

But I’d hacked her phone and already searched her day planner.

She had no plans to get away.

Hell, she had work tomorrow!

I had my bag packed and was ready to hop on a plane and go off somewhere and drink myself into oblivion for a few days.

Try to forget ever seeing Milly again.

But now I had to wonder if she had left the city of her own free will.

Maybe Nastia’s security detail had been ordered to keep Milly away… keep her away permanently.

Fuck me…

I pulled up my tracking program and found she was already ten miles outside city limits, going just above the speed limit northbound on Albany Post Road.

I tried calling her cell phone, but it went straight to voicemail.

Was she in her own car?

I pulled up her GPS data.

Yes, she was in her own car.

But I hadn’t bugged her car—which I was kicking myself for.

But she’d been out of danger, and…

And I’d wanted to get away from her.

As much as every cell in my body wanted to be near her, to follow her and watch over her, a big part of me just hurt seeing her.

It was like seeing what your life could have been like, the woman you could have been with all these lonely, dark years. And then being tortured by the fact that you could never be with her.

You’re too damaged.

You’re a fucking psycho killer who just happens to do his killing for the US government.

You’ve never been in a relationship since her.

Since Milly…

And now she was in danger again.

Well, she might be in danger.

I sighed as I slammed the trunk closed on my Chevelle. This was probably just a ridiculous mistake. Milly was probably just putting some distance between her and him.

Which was smart.

But…

But we are talking about Kremlin trained operatives trained much as I’d been trained.

And Milly had infiltrated their turf and had—

She’d risked her life to pass along love notes for a couple of…

Of her friends…

No matter how I felt about her when we were young—and it had been pretty adversarial back then—I’d had to admit she was one fierce, loyal friend.

Even when I’d left town, not able to say a word to her when she’d come to see me off—even then she’d sent me letter after letter. Aunt Rebecca had forwarded them to me. And I’d read every single one.

I still had them in a safety deposit box in Switzerland. I had digital copies on my personal server too.

I just couldn’t write her back.

I knew I should. She was blaming herself for not being there for me.

But there was no me then to be there for.

I pulled out my keys and noticed for the first time in years that I still had a piece of her with me.

Back when we’d been sneaking out at night in high school she’d had this charm bracelet.

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