True Devotion by Dee Henderson

Author:Dee Henderson [Henderson, Dee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: C429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9781414355306
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Published: 2005-10-31T13:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

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“What do you think you are doing? You killed my inside source!”

“We know who they’re sending. She had become a liability to you. My men said she was talking,” the general arrogantly replied.

Charles watched the television coverage as word of the drowning led the morning news. He wanted to curse this man’s actions. Yes, platoons Echo and Foxtrot had deployed to Okinawa, and from there his own careful inquiries had revealed they were going on to Seoul. But they were reacting to a diversion he himself had created. He needed the SEALs and their equipment spread thin so this shipment could get through, and the diversion with North Korea and South Korea had been carefully planned. None of it led back to him and this deal.

All of that careful planning was gone because of the general’s rash actions. Charles’s own anonymity was shattered—the casualty happened right in his figurative backyard. He had also lost a crucial source of data he might still need. “Why did you decide on your own to kill my contact?”

“She jeopardized this deal.”

“She didn’t know anything!” Another person was dead. Another innocent person was dead. This situation is spiraling out of control. “Back off and let me do what you’re paying me to do.” There was no way to reason with this man.

“If this shipment is intercepted, you will pay for the mistake.”

“It will be delivered. Just don’t touch my remaining source. I need her.”

“We’ll be watching.” The phone call ended as abruptly as the last one.

This was the first time Charles truly couldn’t live with a shipment being intercepted. He thought about the lady who had died and felt sick. She had been caught in crosscurrents she wasn’t even aware of. He paced to the windows, feeling the noose of events tighten around him.

He needed to turn this around, but it was already too late. He could feel his feet sinking down in the quicksand of what was happening. He wanted to pray for help but couldn’t gather the courage to say the words. He knew the truth. He was reaping what he had sown from years before and appealing to God to intervene . . . Charles thought it unlikely help would come. Everyone lived with the consequences of their choices and he was living with his.

His wife, Amy, had died when Ryan was four, and his grief had manifested itself in anger. He had begun to steal again during the last stages of her cancer, at first as a way to get desperately needed cash. Then after Amy died, he stole as a way to lash out at God by intentionally crossing the line, going back to doing what Amy had worked so hard to reform him from.

Mortars had become guns, and guns had become missiles. Diverting shipments had become his specialty. Only it had spiraled out of his ability to control it. Once he’d crossed a line from small things to large, the demands of those he dealt with had become such that he could not step away.

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