Two Days in Caracas: A Titus Ray Thriller by Luana Ehrlich

Author:Luana Ehrlich [Ehrlich, Luana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Potter's Word Publishing
Published: 2015-06-25T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

When I returned to The Gray, although it was almost time for dinner, I took a quick trip upstairs before entering the dining room.

As expected, while Mitchell and I had been out playing hide and seek with the cameras, someone had left the Chuck suitcase in the room I’d been assigned. I was still wearing my funeral clothes, so I quickly changed into something more casual and then went downstairs to join everyone else for dinner.

As I sat down at the table, I had the feeling my world was slightly off kilter. Things just didn’t seem quite right to me.

However, I’d just buried my mother—and on an emotional level, my father—less than twelve hours before, and during that same time, I’d also had a fight with Nikki, and then I’d angered the one person who was going to be watching my back when I went up against a dangerous Jihadi assassin in Venezuela.

Although I knew my feelings were understandable, they still bothered me, and I didn’t say much during the meal. No one at the table seemed to notice my lack of participation in the dinner conversation.

Mitchell, in particular, completely ignored me and talked exclusively with Greg the whole time.

I was beginning to question whether I should have requested that Mitchell be assigned to partner up with me for my run into Venezuela. For that reason, immediately after dinner, I decided to touch base with Jim Grover, the person responsible for security at The Gray.

Jim and I had met during my previous stay at the house, forming a kind of friendship—or at least a connection—due to our similar backgrounds.

Jim was a former operative who’d been transferred to Support Services following his involvement in a coup attempt in Libya, an operation resulting in the disfigurement of the whole left side of his face. Unfortunately, his memorable features disqualified him from further clandestine work.

After such an occurrence, a covert officer was usually given the opportunity to take a desk job or was asked to provide security at an Agency safe house.

Jim had opted to provide security at The Gray. His responsibilities consisted of keeping the perimeter secure, checking into the backgrounds of every guest at The Gray, recording the debriefing sessions, and a dozen or so other security-related tasks.

When I’d appeared at The Gray’s doorstep several months before, my confidence was at an all-time low, and Jim’s quiet manner and his I-know-where-you’re-coming-from attitude had helped me get over a rough patch in my life.

Jim had also put his own job in jeopardy by giving me some valuable intel on an Agency employee. That intel could have gotten him fired if anyone had found out he was the source of such information.

Now, since I didn’t want to draw any undue attention to the conversation I intended having with him, I used a slightly unconventional means to lure him out of his hidden communications room, where I knew he was monitoring the video feed from the grounds.

After dinner, I wandered around the walking

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