The Tiger's Ambush by Tate James

Author:Tate James [James, Tate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-28T16:00:00+00:00

19

WESLEY

Code raced across my screen at lightning pace, but I had no issues following it. I kind of wished I had though because then maybe I’d get a more interesting job for the remainder of our suspension.

Stretching my arms above my head, I yawned heavily and cracked my neck before rubbing the bridge of my nose in a gesture born of habit. I’d only recently made the change to contact lenses, and my old nervous twitches were going to take a long damn time to shake.

“Hard night?” the guy beside me, Scott, asked, and I snorted.

“That’s one way to put it,” I agreed, thinking he didn’t know the fucking half of it. Between Kit taking off to rescue Austin’s sorry ass to yet another interrupted makeout... yeah, to say I was tired would be an understatement.

I’d been hoping for a bit of a reprieve, but when Kit and Austin had hauled ass back to the training center, I no longer had any excuses not to be at my assigned shift reading the most mundane code I’d ever laid eyes on.

“Why don’t you take off?” Scott suggested. “There’s nothing life or death going on here.”

“You sure?” I asked, hoping he was sure. Sitting in this cramped office, working through a backlog of data for Omega was not my idea of fun on any day.

“Yep, I’ve got it. Go get some sleep or something; you look like shit.” Scott grinned at me and turned back to his own computer. Unlike the rest of us who’d gotten placed here as a punishment, this was actually his full time job. Strange man.

“Thanks, man,” I said, groaning as I stretched. “Owe you one.”

Clapping him on the shoulder, I swiped my security pass and let myself out of the little room. Maybe if I got home early, I could do some more research on Kit’s ring and how to get it back. Or even what she’s supposed to do with it once she did get it back.

Nothing was just handed to her on a platter as far as her Ban Dia magic was concerned, so I seriously doubted it’d be as simple as just putting on the ring and then poof instant reciprocal magic.

I was halfway down the fire escape stairs when my vision began to swim, and I paused, leaning one hand on the wall so as not to end up falling face first down three flights of concrete stairs. Despite Kit having healed me already, I wasn’t totally sure she’d changed me and didn’t want to test the theory with a broken neck.

My vision spotted around the edges, and my ears rang like I was about to pass out or something, but it all faded quickly. Instead of the ugly gray concrete of the fire escape stairs, the scene before my eyes was something very different.

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