Viral Justice by Rowe Julie

Author:Rowe, Julie [Rowe, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-02-03T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

A warm stir in the air raised the hairs on the back of her neck. A man stood right behind her. Adrenaline hit her system. She elbowed him in the chest, knocking the wind out of him, and had the heavy breather on the floor a second later, one of her knives at his throat.

“Ali,” hissed a male voice from several feet away.

“Max?” Relief released her from the battle high.

“Let him go,” he whispered. “That’s our host.”

The boy’s father.

Oops.

She released him and backed away. “I’m sorry,” she said in Arabic. “I didn’t mean to... I’m so sorry.”

“You are fierce,” Ferhat said, getting to his feet. “Do not apologize for protecting yourself or my son.”

She could make out the shapes of Max, the boy and his father now. Somewhere deeper into the structure there was light.

“This way,” Max said, pointing in the direction of the light source.

Berez and his father led the way with Max and her bringing up the rear.

“He was going back outside to look for his son,” Max said to her quietly. “The kid slipped away when we were leaving their house.”

The little shit.

“He joined me on the roof, then showed me a rough trail to take to avoid the militants,” she said. “I had to kill another one, though this time I threw a knife.”

He glanced at her, but there was no censure in his gaze. “War is a crazy business.”

She grunted. “It’s a brisk business today.”

They walked down a hallway, turned, walked through a room, then down another hallway. The light got steadily brighter until the second hallway was lit up enough to make out the state of disrepair all around them.

There were tables set up in rows, most of them standing, though a few had been knocked over. Along the walls were counters covered in an odd fusion of school and medical bits and pieces. Chalk, syringes, a few books, a broken blood pressure cuff and other odds and ends were scattered around.

Max walked into the next room, the one containing the light source. It was a flashlight that someone had stood on its end with the light hitting the relatively low ceiling.

This room wasn’t as messy and dirty as the rest. A long metal table was in the center of the room with a huge spotlight pointed toward it. Tom and Bull were moving what resembled an ancient computer from next to the metal table to the far wall.

“Was this an operating room?” she asked.

“I think so,” Max replied. “It’s certainly cleaner than all the other rooms. I want to set up my lab in here.” He turned to the man who’d sheltered them, risking his life and the lives of his sons. “My friend, do you have family you can stay with? This place may not be the safest if those gunmen find out we’re here.”

“There is no safe place. My wife is dead. Her parents died last night of the fever. Everyone else is sick. I will find another room where my sons can sleep.

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