Predator One: A Joe Ledger Novel by Maberry Jonathan

Author:Maberry, Jonathan [Maberry, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781250033444
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2015-04-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventy-one

UC San Diego Medical Center

200 West Arbor Drive

San Diego, California

March 30, 7:05 P.M.

Toys stood apart from the group, feeling small and useless and alien.

He listened as Lydia told her team and Junie about the murder of Bug’s mother and the attack on Aunt Sallie. Junie wept. No one else did. Toys looked at the faces of Lydia and Sam Imura, Montana Parker and Brian Botley. And at other soldiers he didn’t know. Their faces were hard. Not without emotion, but completely without mercy.

He expected to hear trash talk, threats, the kind of threats and promises all soldiers make when they learn about a fallen comrade. There was none of that. When Lydia was done relating the news, they all stood there. Toys wasn’t even sure they were looking at each other. They were just—there. As tall and straight and silent as chess pieces.

Without saying a single thing, the DMS agents turned and went back to their posts. Junie stood alone, weeping openly into a crumpled tissue. Toys wanted to say something to her, to offer comfort to her, but he did not have the courage to approach. Not in a moment like this.

After all, what comfort could a monster give when human hearts were breaking?

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