Three Little Graves & the Big Bad Wolf (The House of Graves Book 1) by M.M. Crumley
Author:M.M. Crumley [Crumley, M.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lone Ghost Publishing
Published: 2023-08-24T16:00:00+00:00
Chapter 11
Ollie checked her watch. They only had about twenty minutes before they would be attacked again. Thirty on the outside. Not long enough for Tessa to have a mental breakdown.
"Magnus!" Ollie yelled.
For once, Magnus hurried.
"Yes, Ms. Graves?"
"You know the drill; get everyone out. I'll call you when it's safe."
"Yes, Ms. Graves."
With that, she put the staff out of her mind. For all his faults, Magnus would take care of them. That was his job, and he always performed his job flawlessly.
"The Worms?" she demanded.
"On their way, and I put a rush on it," Gisele replied. "I've never seen you fight, dear," Gisele added thoughtfully. "I begin to see why you don't like my romance novels."
"Just once, that's all I ask," Ollie said. "Just once have the woman save the man."
"I'll consider it, dear."
"The Worms will get here in about five minutes," Ollie said. "That gives us fifteen. Do we stay here or move the fight?"
"I think we should move the fight. For all the supposed protections Virgil had in place, the shifters got in a little too easily, if you want my opinion," Gisele said.
"Always," Ollie replied. "And you're right. So we move, but where to? I don't have anything set up in Denver."
"I do," Gisele said softly.
"Let me guess," Tessa suddenly said. "You have a condo, don't you?"
"It's more of a love nest, dear. I can't possibly live there. It's for rendezvous."
"No!" Tessa said emphatically. "We can't go there. I can't... Eww, Grandma, just eww. My head hurts," she added with a whimper.
Ollie paced the room, picking up her spent syringe as she passed it. She needed to get Tessa and Gisele out of here. Cadwel would send more than six next time, and she wasn't sure she could handle more than six. Ten at the most.
She tapped her fingers on her thigh, trying to sort it all out.
"Pack up your laptop," she told Gisele. "As soon as the Worms clear the bodies, we're gone."
They couldn't leave before the Worms arrived. If the Worms got the bodies out of here in time, there would be no evidence. Cadwel would certainly know where the bodies had gone, but the Worms had a strict policy. Once a body went in, it didn't come back out.
Ollie checked her watch before running upstairs and grabbing her duffle bag of goodies out from under her bed. It wasn't much. Just a handful of syringes, a couple of magazines for her gun, two bricks of C-4, some detonators, and a huge stack of cash. She was retired, after all, and she hadn't exactly expected to walk into the middle of a war.
The doorbell rang, and Ollie ran down the hallway and flung open the door, heaving a sigh of relief to see the team of Worms standing there.
"Ms. Swan, so nice to see you again," one of them said with a nod.
"You too, Robert," Ollie said sincerely. "No time to chat though. I need these bodies moved now."
"Got it," Robert said.
He and the four
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