Red Awakening by Janet Elizabeth Henderson

Author:Janet Elizabeth Henderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Action & Adventure Fantasy; Fantasy & Futuristic Romance; Paranormal & Urban Fantasy; Romantic Suspense; Women's Adventure Fiction; Humor & Satire Fiction; Red Zone; Entangled Publishing; Janet Elizabeth Henderson; Series Romance; Single Title Romance; Amara; Army Ranger; BioEngineering; Futuristic; Shifter romance; Multicultural, Thriller; Bodyguard Protector Romance; enemies to lovers romance; opposites attract romance; skyscraper; houston; Stand alone Romance;
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-10-04T04:18:43+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Private Jet

Somewhere between New York City and Houston, Northern Territory

Daniel Mercer looked up from his handheld datapad, where he was going over the report on the Freedom cell that’d taken over CommTECH’s research facility, to find that his brother was staring at the flight attendant.

“Stop staring at the man.” Daniel kept his voice low. This was a conversation just between brothers. “You’re making him nervous.”

The emotionless mask that turned toward him had no impact. Daniel had been looking at it since the day they were born. “We need to discuss payment for this job.”

And so it began. The game between twins. The one where Daniel played his part to keep a monster leashed as best he could.

“There will be plenty of people in Houston for you to play with,” Daniel said. “You can have free reign in the building.” The terrorists were going to die anyway. Whether it was from a bullet or at the end of Charles’s knife made no difference.

A small voice whispered in the back of his mind that he was lying to himself. It was a voice he’d been hearing more often over the years, and he suspected it was his long-dead conscience coming back to life. He ignored it and focused on his datapad, telling himself that the agony his brother’s victims would experience was nothing more than they deserved. They were criminals. They caused the death of others.

Usually.

If Daniel managed to keep Charles’s deadly hobby contained by aiming him at the people who needed killing.

Unfortunately, he wasn’t always successful.

“I’ll have the people in the building anyway,” Charles said in the flat, emotionless tone of his. “I choose something else for my payment.”

“No. The Freedom terrorists are enough.”

It was the same argument they went through before every job. Charles thought it amusing to make Daniel feel responsible for every kill he made—by making him approve his choice of victim. It was his payment for Charles allowing him to lead a normal life. As normal as it got, being one half of the Mercer twins.

“I want something more exotic for my knife this time,” Charles said, as though they were discussing the weather and not his need to kill.

A chill went through Daniel. By exotic, Charles meant innocent. “We’ll discuss it on the ground.”

“I will keep you to that, brother.” And then he went back to staring at the flight attendant with a look that caused trained combat professionals to wet themselves and cower.

This time, Daniel let him be. This was his brother’s idea of fun—terrorizing the help. Charles had no intention of killing the man; he’d already set his eyes on someone else. And yet again, Daniel had to come up with a way to redirect him.

It was how their game was played.

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