The Porter Complication (Cari Porter Series Book 1) by Mike Ryan

Author:Mike Ryan [Ryan, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-21T16:00:00+00:00

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Stephenson finally removed his hand from his mouth as he surveyed the damage as it was laid out on the screen. Myers was on the phone with one of the agents involved at Jeso’s apartment. After a few minutes, Myers hung up, then came walking over to Stephenson, shaking his head at the turn of events. Stephenson’s face was already getting red, and he looked like he was about to boil over. He could tell that his lieutenant didn’t have good news for him. Stephenson glared at him as he walked toward him, bracing himself for whatever bad news he had to divulge.

“Well?” Stephenson said.

“It’s a complete cluster—”

“Is Porter dead?”

Myers shook his head, an agonized look on his face. “No. She slipped away.”

“Damn!” Stephenson said, slapping at his thighs. “Why the hell is it so hard to kill her?!”

Myers almost hated to tell him the rest of it, knowing he was close to flying off the deep end. “The news gets worse.”

“Worse? How could it get worse? What’s worse than her getting away?”

“We lost two more agents. She killed both of them in the Jordaan apartment.”

It took every ounce of strength that Stephenson could muster to not go ballistic right there in front of everyone. As a rule, while in the situation room when everyone else was around, he tried to maintain an even demeanor, and not get too high or too low over any piece of news. Other people relied on him to make the final decision on hard topics, and he never wanted to appear like he was not in control of his emotions when he made those decisions. But this whole situation was about to make him seriously blow his top.

Stephenson cleared his throat and turned around for a second, but quickly returned to his previous spot. He was attempting to clear his thoughts before he misspoke. After he successfully blocked himself from getting too angry, he then asked for additional details.

“What exactly is the damage?”

“It’s a mess,” Myers said, clearly frustrated himself. “The entire apartment was shot to pieces. Looks like a hurricane went through there, there’s stuff everywhere.”

“And our agents?”

Myers sighed again, hating having to be the one to relay everything. “They barely got out of there before the police arrived. We’re talking, like, minutes.”

“So the local police have control of the scene now?”

“They do.”

“And Porter? Where do they stand on her?” Stephenson asked.

Myers threw his arms up, not having a clue. “They don’t. They did everything they could to get out of there without a police entanglement. They have no idea where Porter went.”

Stephenson let out a deep sigh, thinking this could not have gone any worse. He wanted to just blow up, but was able to contain himself. “What the hell is going on here? How could we have bungled this thing so badly?”

“I don’t know,” Myers said, rubbing his head.

“I don’t understand how this could have gone so horribly wrong.”

Stephenson thought back to just a few hours earlier, to the moments after the agents had killed Jeso, and they devised the plan.

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