Marked (Hostage Rescue Team Series) by Kaylea Cross

Author:Kaylea Cross [Cross, Kaylea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Hostage Rescue Team Series
Publisher: Kaylea Cross
Published: 2014-06-26T00:00:00+00:00

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Xang wiped the back of his hand across his upper lip as he pulled the ringing phone out of his pocket. It felt like it was a hundred degrees in this old warehouse when it was probably closer to sixty.

He couldn’t stop sweating, couldn’t control the staccato beat of his heart. The op had almost been a disaster. “Did you get them?”

“They’re incomplete,” his contact spat back in Mandarin.

Xang blanched, suddenly feeling like he’d been dropped into a tub full of ice water. “What do you mean? That’s impossible, I saw the plans myself.” Had something gone wrong during the transfer? Had there been some kind of virus attached to the files he’d failed to notice?

“That’s because you’re completely ignorant about architecture,” the man snapped. “There are layout features missing, measurements and dimensions missing.”

“Does it affect the op?” Xang asked, trying to tamp down his growing fear.

“Of course it affects the op! You know how tight the timeline is. We have no choice but to go forward with what we have and the people already in place. The FBI will act quickly—we have to carry out the attack in the next forty-eight hours, otherwise we’ll have no choice but to abort the entire thing.”

Xang wiped at his damp face. They’d blame him for this. They couldn’t track him here—not yet—so he still had some time if he ditched the burner phone, but damn. “I’ll see if I can get the original plans on my own.”

“Don’t bother. You’ve done enough,” the man said in a scathing tone. “Just know that if this attack fails, it’ll be on your head.”

Meaning if this glitch forced them to abort the attack, he was a dead man.

The line went dead before Xang could say anything else. With a shaking hand he threw the burner phone onto the ground and crushed it beneath the sole of his boot. There. That would buy him at least a few hours’ head start to find a new hideout. He wasn’t their lapdog, trained to blindly obey and come to heel when called. He had the resources, men who respected him and were loyal to him.

Xang knew he had to finish this on his own. He paced around the room, his footsteps echoing hollowly off the concrete walls.

He hadn’t gone to the drop area in person because that would have been stupid, but he’d watched everything unfold with the help of CCTVs he’d hacked into in the area. He’d seen Rachel appear and leave the USB. He’d seen his hired men approach. Then the men chasing them through Chinatown. He knew damn well they’d been undercover Feds.

That bitch, he thought, raking his hands through his hair. Not only had she brought law enforcement with her when he’d specifically warned her what would happen if she did, she’d altered the files, made him look like an idiot and jeopardized the entire operation. And since he hadn’t heard from any of the three guys he’d enlisted for the job, other than the initial e-mail transmitting the files, he knew they must still be in custody.

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