Subtle Target: Six Assassins Book 2 by Heskett Jim & Thacker Nick

Author:Heskett, Jim & Thacker, Nick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Turtleshell Press
Published: 2020-03-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

EMBER

Ember stopped in front of the trail marker sign halfway up the branching intro trail at Chautauqua Park in Boulder. Panting, hands on hips, feeling slick sweat run down her back. The chill in the air made the sweat even worse because, in five minutes, it would cool and send shivers up and down her spine.

She sipped from her water bottle as she checked the step count on her watch. “Which way do you want to go? There are four or five trails we could dive into from here.”

He shrugged. “No idea. You’re leading this expedition. I’ve done a decent amount of hiking up in Poudre Canyon, but this is my first time on Boulder trails.”

“Okay, how about this: how much time do you have?”

"I'm supposed to be at work at four. So I can't do anything more than a couple of miles right now."

"Got it," she said. "Let's hit Royal Arch. It's short, but it’s also brutal. A quick hike so we can be back to the cars in plenty of time. You up for that?"

He had a similar level of sweat around the collar of his shirt, and his chest was also pumping up and down, but he nodded and waved a hand for her to lead the way. He was maybe even cuter in his current, sweaty incarnation.

She found young Zach Bennett impressive. He was funny, charming, and quick-witted, although he did stumble over his words from time to time. It only made him more endearing. When Ember had deliberately ambushed him in front of the doughnut place last week, she'd had no intention of pursuing a romantic tryst with Zach. She had been looking out for him because of a promise she'd made to his older brother, Harvey. But every conversation, every text, every interaction brought him closer to the center of her mind and sealed his place within it. It caused a war in her brain, but it was also a welcome distraction from the other garbage currently going on in her life.

“How is work?” she asked as they embarked up the rocky trail. She shucked sweat off her brow and winced when her hand touched the injury there. So far, at least, Zach hadn’t said anything about the cut on her forehead.

“Work’s fine, I guess. I did find a really weird thing yesterday.”

“What’s that?”

“The company I work for is called Firedrake. Have you ever heard of them?”

She shook her head, and she shoved her water bottle into the waistband of her stretchy pants. "I don't think so."

“No reason you would have, actually. It’s a biochem thing. I think it’s part of a bigger company named Draconis. Or, Draconis is one of the companies in a portfolio or something. Firedrake, Draconis, Drache Global, and others. I don’t know how they all fit, and I can’t seem to find out, because I did some research on them, and it was all a big loop that led me nowhere. And, what’s weirder, I got kicked out of the library when I tried to dig around.

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