The Lynx Assassin (The Society Book 2) by Karen Guyler

Author:Karen Guyler [Guyler, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unexpected Books
Published: 2021-06-11T16:00:00+00:00

25

Eva steered Luke out of the lift towards his hotel room. His legs appeared to have forgotten how to walk in the same direction.

“Should have hung onto the wheelchair.” She pulled him away from the wall. “What did they give you?”

“All the good stuff.” He laughed, “Not painful at all, this dislocation thing.”

“That’s because of the good stuff.”

She got him into his room. “You can do the bathroom stuff unaided, right? I’m sure that’s not in my job description.” Luke pulled a face. “If that’s an eyebrow arch, it’s not working.”

“I got it.”

“Good, I’ll see you in the morning, later in the morning. Sleep well. Phone’s right beside you, if you need anything call me, I’m just next door.”

After sending an update to S, Eva sat at the dressing table in her room studying the bullets that, if Rubin had his way, would have been in her and Luke.

Definitely nothing ordinary about them or the system that fired them. Presumably a rifle fired the bullets, the drone tracked the RFID-tagged victims, relaying the tags’ signal to the bullets that then hit whoever or whatever the tags were attached to. It really was a smart weapon.

Beneath the harsh glare of all the bathroom lights, Eva checked her face in the mirror. There, just visible, half a fingerprint’s width of slight shimmer above where she thought Rubin had touched her. She wiped it off with a tissue, inspecting what it picked up. It was hard to say, some kind of powder? He’d got RFID tags so small he’d put them into a powder? But how did they not muddle the signal as she’d tried to do with Luke’s chin on her cheek? The man was clever, she’d give him that.

She folded the tissue in on itself and wrapped it up in the shower cap she found in the basket of bathroom treats. Re-boxed it and put it in her overnight bag. Another puzzle for Sadie.

Eva examined her snowsuit next, working out from where the bullet had ripped through it. If it was a powder he’d used, he could have impregnated the suit with it. She inspected the seams. There, something stiff in the zip seam. That was probably it, close enough to the ragged hole the bullet had left. She’d leave it for Sadie because how Rubin had the tags secured might teach her something. Folding the suit in on itself again, Eva put it back in the large dry bag she’d taken from Rubin’s SUV.

So, Rubin, what was in Denmark? Why did you use this weapon there? Who were the victims to you? Before opening the file on the Copenhagen shootings, Eva ordered a pot of coffee and another pizza. It was going to be a long night.

Her room phone shrilled into her dreamless sleep. Morning already? Or did Luke need something?

“Hello?” she croaked.

“Eva, it’s Nora, call in on your laptop.”

Eva dragged herself off the bed and turned the camera off before she connected.

“You’re in luck,” Nora didn’t waste any time with niceties, “we’ve got an extraction team for the armaments.

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