Dom (Hell Squad #18) by Anna Hackett

Author:Anna Hackett [Hackett, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Anna Hackett

Chapter Nine

Arden looked at the footage. Again. She rubbed her blurry eyes.

The rest of her squad had gone to bed. As he’d left to find his partner Avery, Roth had threatened Arden with bodily harm if she didn’t take a break and get some rest.

But she needed to stay. She needed to keep working. She needed to help.

Those poor kids… Arden sat back in a chair and stretched her stiff neck. She knew her emotions were mixed up with the loss of Beth and Emmett. She was okay with that. She was using it to fuel her need to take the Gizzida down.

She wished for the millionth time that she had a photo of Jason and her kids. In those early days, it had tortured her that she had nothing of theirs to hold on to. But now, she realized she had all the important things. Every time she closed her eyes, it was easy to remember Jason bending her over his arm for a kiss, and the snuggles, the giggles, the endless stories her kids would tell her. It was the small things she kept locked in her heart. Jason making his world-famous, homemade pizza, Emmett’s bright coloring, Beth’s hard hugs. Her husband had been a wonderful father, and her kids had always known they were loved.

Arden opened her eyes, staring blankly at the drone footage on the screen. For her family, for those kids at Mount Wilson, for the survivors at the Enclave, and dammit, for herself, she was going to find this damn bomb.

She wanted to live.

Memories of her hands on Dom, her mouth on him… Arden shivered. She wanted more.

Shaking her head, she concentrated on the screen again.

She’d been over the footage of the town over and over, but she forced herself to study every detail—the bodies, the scales, the claws, the mutations. Her hands clamped onto the edge of the conference room table and she breathed in deeply.

They would find this bomb. She wouldn’t let the aliens take any more than they already had.

Then she tilted her head, staring at an image of the remnants of the detonated test bomb.

What was that? There was something in the shadows of one of the drag marks gouged into the mud.

Tapping the screen with a frown, she zoomed in on the image.

There. There were lots of deep tracks in the mud from where the Gizzida had dragged the bomb into place. And in one track, hidden in the shadows, she saw a faint neon glow.

Even zoomed in, she couldn’t quite tell what it was. It looked like a strand of lights.

What was it?

“Bella?”

His deep voice shivered through her and she looked over her shoulder.

Dom stood in the doorway, wearing his black, carbon-fiber armor, with his carbine slung on one shoulder

“You should be in bed,” he said.

“I wanted to look at a few more images.”

He walked inside, stopping beside her chair. His gloved fingers brushed her cheek. “You look tired.”

She nodded. “You have patrol?”

“I took a shift from Morales from Squad Eight.

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