Rogue Ops (Rogue Agents of Magic Book 1) by TR Cameron & Martha Carr & Michael Anderle

Author:TR Cameron & Martha Carr & Michael Anderle [Cameron, TR & Carr, Martha & Anderle, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2021-09-21T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Kevin Serrano strode into his team’s shiny new offices for only the second time, and his sense of satisfaction was as keen as it had been on the first. His direct subordinate, Tash, was waiting inside the door, doubtless having watched his progress through the tracker in his car and the exterior cameras mounted surreptitiously on the facade of the office park building.

Their facility was small, more or less a cube that was three floors high. Two of them merged in the back to create a garage with a training area for his team. The space above it housed their main meeting area. The front of the building contained individual offices, smaller conference rooms, a kitchen, and the usual business stuff. After exchanging greetings with the witch, they walked to his office, where he held his palm against a sensor outside to unlock the door.

His desk was corporate casual, as was all the furniture in their space. No one, least of all him, had cared about any of those details. He only needed a functional place. Form didn’t enter into it.

Tash, officially Natasha Kline, plopped down in the chair across from him and put her feet up on the desk. “So, what’s the deal, Bossman?”

Kevin chuckled. During their first few months together, he’d tried reining in her attitude, which he’d initially judged unprofessional. It hadn’t taken him much time to conclude that as long as her actions were professional and effective, which they were, he didn’t care about her manners. “The senators were impressed with the vimana. They said so after you left. Not real thrilled we failed to capture any of the agents, though.”

She shrugged. “Stuff happens. They had a good plan and executed it well. We’re lucky to have gotten what we did.”

“Agreed. I told the senators as much. They’re politicians, though, so they probably only understood every third word and spent the whole conversation thinking about how to get a donation out of me.”

Her laughter showed that her opinion of politicians matched his. “Well, at least the glad-handing is over for a while, right? They don’t need you there to wipe their noses for them until something else major develops?”

He nodded. “If there’s any mercy in heaven, that’ll be awhile. Now, what’s your take on our initial op?”

Tash straightened in her chair, dropping her boots to the floor. “The team worked well as a unit. Everyone did what they were supposed to. The anti-magic backpacks held Makka and me back, but that’s fine. We knew we wouldn’t have our normal abilities going in. That’s what target practice is for.”

He nodded. Making the magicals cross-train had been his idea, although he hadn’t had a specific purpose for it when he’d told them to do it.

She continued, “I don’t think we could’ve done anything better. The assault seemed to achieve total surprise, given how much stuff they left behind, especially the artifacts. They did some good contingency planning, executed the plan efficiently, and it worked out well for them.

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