A Code to Kill (Blake Wilder FBI Mystery Thriller Book 19) by Elle Gray

Author:Elle Gray [Gray, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Blake Wilder FBI Mystery
Publisher: Elle Gray
Published: 2023-08-24T16:00:00+00:00

Keaton Cabin, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Park; King County, WA

The haze of smoke is in the air around us as we bounce down the pitted and rutted road that leads from the highway to the cabin. The trees press close on either side of the narrow, dimly lit lane, adding to the horror movie feel.

“This isn’t good,” Astra mutters worriedly.

“You think?”

When we emerge into the clearing where the cabin sits, my heart drops into my stomach. It looks like something out of a war zone. The walls of the cabin are pockmarked with bullet holes and the windows are chipped and spiderwebbed—though they look like they held up against the assault, which is more than can be said for the rest of the cabin. Thick, dark smoke drifts through the holes in the roof and out of the shattered remnants of the front door.

“Jesus,” I gasp as I park the SUV and we jump out. “Kit! Kit!”

“Over here.”

Astra and I pull out our weapons as we turn around to find my sister kneeling on the ground, the bullet-riddled body of Anja stretched out in front of her. Anja’s head is in her lap and Kit is stroking the dead woman’s bloody, matted hair. Tears race down my sister’s face, cutting through the dark, sooty smudges on her cheeks, leaving clean streaks in their wake.

“We failed her,” Kit whispers. “I failed her.”

“What in the hell happened?” I ask.

She shakes her head. “I don’t know. This is what I found when I got here.”

My weapon still at the ready, I walk around the grounds. The sun overhead glitters off hundreds of spent shell casings making the small clearing look like it was paved with brass. Near the short staircase that leads to the porch, two bodies—Fish’s men—are sprawled in the dirt, their bodies ravaged by bullets. I climb the stairs slowly and find the bodies of two more men dressed in tactical gear and bulletproof vests lying in pools of blood spilling from the ragged exit wounds in the back of their heads. Those two don’t belong to Fish.

With Astra on my hip, I step through the jagged hole where the front door used to be. Char marks radiate outward from the hole and acrid smoke still lingers in the air—they used powerful explosives to breach the cabin. Fish’s other two men lay on their backs, eyes wide and unseeing, their bodies pierced by the lethal shards of shrapnel that had filled the air once the attackers blew the door inward.

“Who in the hell are these guys?” Astra asks, her tone a hushed whisper.

“And how did they find where we’d stashed Anja?”

“Yeah, no clue.”

Moving swiftly, we clear the rest of the house, making sure there isn’t anybody hiding in a corner, ready to pop out and shoot us in the back of the head. As I step back into the front room, I look through the window and see Kit still sitting with Anja’s body, the expression of grief on her face painful for even me to see.

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