Man of War (The Silver Fleet Series Book 2) by R.L. Giddings

Author:R.L. Giddings
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2020-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE

Jackson drove, following the directions for the Town Hall. They had no idea whether Ardent would be in her offices but they didn’t care, they were still recovering from the after effects of the explosion and it was the only plan they had.

Webster had expected to take a cab but Jackson’s paranoia had got the better of her, and she trusted no one. She had gone off on her own and then come back behind the wheel of what passed for a family RV on Blackthorn. There wasn’t enough room for Lance Corporal Grimes to sit up front with the rest of them but he seemed happy enough sitting in the back. The three of them looked like a group of scarecrows sitting in the front, covered from head to toe in masonry dust.

As they drove around the front of the hospital, they could see the piles of rubble from the blast which had fallen into the front car-park, crushing several vehicles. Webster had to crouch down just to be able to see up to the top floor. The middle section of the upper floors were completely missing.

“I still don’t understand how you knew it was going to happen,” Webster said.

“Sergeant Markham sent us to keep an eye on you,” Jackson said, all the usual deference forgotten while she attempted to cope with the traffic. “It was Grimes’ idea to use the tracker.”

“A tracker?” Webster started to examine his clothes, realisation dawning slowly. “Exactly what kind of tracker?”

Jackson tried to look disinterested. “Oh, you know. The usual kind.”

“Did it have audio? I mean full audio?”

“Er, yeah. I guess.”

Webster’s mind went back to the moment of their reunion.

“I take it that you heard everything, then.”

Silva was trying to hide her discomfort.

Jackson pulled the RV down a side road. “Sir, if we hadn’t, the pair of you would be lying in that car park back there.”

Webster had no response to that but it still didn’t assuage his anger.

“So how did you know about the bomb?”

Jackson indicated behind her. “Well, Grimes – for his sins - is D Company’s bomb disposal specialist. He suspected that the whole thing might be a set-up; that the place might be booby-trapped.”

“So what did he do? Scan the place?”

“That’s what he’s good at. Didn’t take him long to track down the bomb either.”

Webster nodded, taking it all in. “And that’s when you decided to bust the door down.”

They emerged onto a clear stretch of road.

“Actually, no. We weren’t sure what to do at first,” she seemed suddenly uncomfortable. “Whether we should – er - disturb you or not. But then the sensor switched from green to red.”

“Someone had just armed the explosive,” he said.

“Exactly! Which meant we only had a short time to get you out of there.”

Webster’s mind went back to the conversation he and Silva had been having at the time. They’d just made the link between Parnashikan and the arrival of the mercenaries.

It was too much of a coincidence. Someone else had been listening in on their conversation.

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