Hot Zone (Major Crimes Unit Book 2) by Iain Rob Wright

Author:Iain Rob Wright [Wright, Iain Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SalGad Publishing Group
Published: 2015-03-15T22:00:00+00:00

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Sarah didn’t fight back as she was manhandled. Her arms were wrenched behind her back and she was dragged unceremoniously away from the bullet-ridden seating area to a place inside a small amusement arcade. Half of the remaining guards had chased after her father, but the rest stayed behind to clear up the mess Major Stone and his men had left behind.

“I want to speak with her alone,” Howard said, marching up to Sarah until his sweating face was right up against hers. He grabbed her roughly by the arm and yanked her away from the two men guarding her.

Sarah couldn’t bring herself to look her former colleague in the eye, so she stared down at the floor instead, then, when she spotted a bloodstain on the carpet, she looked at her shoes.

Howard shoved her back against the wall. “What the hell happened to you, Sarah? How did you get involved in all this?”

Sarah couldn’t find her voice.

“Talk, Sarah. Believe me, I’m the last person who will be willing to listen.”

Sarah forced herself to look up at Howard and felt tears run down the good side of her face. The other side lacked feeling and the ducts rarely opened beneath her left eye. “I didn’t know,” she said. “I…I was abducted, shoved in a cell and kept for four months.”

Howard softened a little, but his folded arms made his hostility clear. “Abducted by whom?”

“My father. I managed to escape a few days ago. I was just about to get away and then…he was there, my father. He was the one who kidnapped me outside of Bradley’s funeral. We got in his way when we took down Hesbani.”

“Hesbani? What are you talking about?”

“Someone paid my father for Hesbani’s head, but we got there first. We cost him a lot of money.”

Howard frowned, kept his arms folded. “What does any of that have to do with any of this? Why were you working with Dr Krenshaw? Do you know what he has done?”

Sarah nodded. “My father said he was taking Krenshaw abroad and handing him over to the South African government for justice. I didn’t know he was going to do any of this, I swear. He dragged me along and, before I knew it, I was fighting the MCU. God, how is Mattock? Is he alright? Tell him I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean for any of this. I just wanted to get out, start again.”

“Mattock is fine,” said Howard, finally unfolding his arms. “He knows you shot wide on purpose. In fact he told me to go easy on you. Not sure I could be so forgiving if somebody shot me.”

“Howard I-”

Somebody shouted. “Agent Hopkins.”

Howard spun around. An Asian man in a guard’s uniform was hailing him from the cafe area.

Howard grabbed Sarah and took her along. He seemed to know the guard calling him. “Tariq, what is it?”

“We have a survivor.”

Sarah’s eyes went wide and for a moment she hoped that it was Ollie, but she was soon disappointed when she saw it was Krenshaw.

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