The Assassin by Kaye Blue

Author:Kaye Blue [Blue, Kaye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Interracial Romantic Suspense
Published: 2015-03-03T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

As I drove the car away from my home base I grabbed the satellite phone and dialed the number from memory. He answered on the first ring.

“Code?”

The voice was brisk, impatient.

“Flight,” I said.

“Is this a secure line?” he asked, voice still impatient, but no longer wary.

“Yes,” I responded.

He’d taught me a lot, carefulness and attention foremost among them, not that they were helping me now.

“What do you want?”

To the point as always, but I knew his nature alone was not the reason for his shortness. I’d disappointed him when I’d gone out on my own. I’d been like him once, believed in the mission, had given it everything I had. Until one day I woke up and realized that if I was going to kill for someone, it might as well be for myself.

My defection had stung him deeply. Because he was still a true believer. But he was also loyal, to fault, and I could still count on him in a pinch, which this most certainly was.

“Is the General hunting?”

He was silent for one beat, another, and then he said, “No. Should he be?”

“Not for me. Any chatter?”

“There’s always chatter. You know that.”

“About a woman. Someone at Titan Industries?”

Giving him this information felt wrong, and worrisome, but I didn’t have much choice.

He released an oath. “I should’ve known that was you. I could feel your prints all over it.”

“So there’s something?”

“Yeah, some woman at Titan has three bounties on her head. As far as I know two teams are on it.”

“And the General has nothing to do with this?”

“He doesn’t. Again, is there something that needs his attention?”

“Maybe the fact that the idiot CEO of Titan industries has two teams and me chasing an employee for no fucking reason!”

“I’ll look into it.”

Our conversation was over. He wouldn’t give me anything else, but I had what I needed. The situation was bad, but if the General wasn’t directly involved I could handle it. But the cost would be steep.

“I’ll be in touch.”

After I disconnected, I felt myself exhale for what felt like the first time in hours. That fucker hadn’t had faith in me—probably a wise call, not that I was feeling charitable at the moment. I could see it so clearly now, why he’d felt compelled to go to such lengths. He thought Stephanie Sloan had seen or heard something she shouldn’t have, and instead of having the balls to tell the General, he wanted to handle it on his own.

The General had no qualms about taking a life, or lives as the case may be, but he wouldn’t have overreacted like this. But there was no sense in worrying about the past. I couldn’t change it, or make Tillman smarter, but as I dumped the car and retrieved another, a plan began to form.

And if I was lucky, it might keep both of us alive.

∞ ∞ ∞ ∞

Two hours later, I slipped back into the house, and Stephanie sat on the sofa, dozing but not restfully from the tight, defensive expression that strained her features.

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