Two Weeks' Notice by Rachel Caine

Author:Rachel Caine [Caine, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: urn|isbn|9781101594346
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2012-08-07T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

The warehouse looked just the same to Bryn’s eyes, only now, at night, it was lit up like a spaceship. Manny must have paid a fortune, not just in electricity, but in halogen bulbs. Patrick drove up to the gates and got out to show himself to the camera.

Nothing happened.

Bryn tuned the radio to the AM channel she’d used earlier, but there was nothing but static. No voice, even an unfriendly one, to indicate there was anyone at all inside the warehouse.

Patrick pressed the button on the control panel and said, “Manny, I know you’re in there. Let us in. Please.”

Nothing. Not a whisper. Bryn got out of the car, too. There was little traffic this time in the neighborhood, so it was quiet enough to hear the low-level buzz of the lighting.

“Those two couldn’t have gotten in here, even if they did find the place,” Bryn said. “It’s Fort Knox.”

Patrick slammed his hand down on the control again. “Manny! Answer the goddamn radio now or I’m calling the police and telling them there are shots fired and a hostage situation inside. You can try to explain it to them.”

The static went on, and on, for what seemed like eternity, and then the speaker clicked and Pansy’s voice said, “I’ll meet you at the gate, Pat. Stay in the camera’s view.”

It took about ten minutes, and when Pansy came out, she was driving a big SUV, something with lots of power and thick, bullet-resistant glass—it looked like it was on loan from the Secret Service, or (more likely) a South American drug lord. Pansy was tiny in comparison when she hopped down from the cab and walked over. She was wearing a holster clipped to her blue jeans waistband, but it was empty. She held the matching semiauto pistol down at her side—ready but not threatening.

Bryn thought she looked incredibly tense.

Pansy said, “Two men showed up at the gates after you left, Bryn. They drove around, cut the fence, and got as far as the elevator, but they couldn’t hack the scanner. Gave it a damn good try, though. After they left, I looked at the thumb drive, and there was a tracking device built in—GPS enabled. We killed it, of course, but I’ve spent the last couple of hours trying to talk Manny down from running for Belize.”

“They came after me, too,” Bryn said. “But I didn’t have the drive anymore.”

“Then they were surveilling you before you got here. Once they realized we were a hard target, I guess they went for you first.” Pansy sighed and holstered her weapon. “These are not amateurs. If they’re advance for some kind of serious cleanup crew, we’re on the radar now, and they’ll be back for you, and for me and Manny. I’m sorry, but we have to move. There’s no choice.”

“Please don’t,” Bryn said. “I didn’t mean for this to blow back on the two of you—you have to know that.”

“I know.” Pansy looked grim, but also grimly determined. “Look, I like you.

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