Underground - A Merfolk Secret (The Under Series Book 3) by M.N. Arzu

Author:M.N. Arzu [Arzu, M.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-16T18:30:00+00:00

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White was back at a desk in the Pentagon, a thick pile of papers waiting for him. His temporary reassignment to Washington was meant as a catch-up, so he could brief a dozen senators and other officers on what had transpired on board the Honos. Most people in the know only had access to Drake’s deal and the specs on the diving suit. The Brookses’ identity, on the other hand, was a precious secret that few knew. It was too easy to try to blackmail Julian Brooks for anyone to feel comfortable spreading such information.

Julian’s identity was the least of his worries, though. He sighed in relief when Dr. Greensburg told him Drake had woken up, and started breathing easier when Dr. Higgs had arrived. Just because White wasn’t in Massachusetts overlooking the operation the same way he’d done at ORCAS, it didn’t mean he didn’t have the clearance to be updated.

Now, as he was reading the latest news, he uncharacteristically cursed at Drake’s antics to escape a boat where he technically hadn’t been a prisoner. How am I going to clean up this mess? he wondered, even if he wasn’t sure it was going to fall into his lap to try to repair the relationship between the Navy and the merfolk.

If they loved that diving suit as much as I think they did, there might be nothing to be worried about in the long term. He just had to prevent Drake from acting up. Somehow. Soon.

Frustrated with how things were turning out, he started to jot down a list of things he needed to know before calling Julian with the good news that Drake was alive, but no, he didn’t know where. He had no authorization to reveal that fact, and honestly, telling Julian where Drake was being detained was akin to sending Julian to the same prison.

As he wrote down find out Drake’s medical condition, his eyes caught a few words of the report beside his laptop.

—clandestine activity was traced back to Brazil—

The Brazil incident was not really part of White’s jurisdiction, but the Navy’s. Since it remotely related to merfolk, White received a copy of the advances done during the investigation. He hadn’t read the last two weeks of updates, as he’d been first too busy preparing for the mission on board the U.S.S. Honos, and then because he’d been supervising it.

Now, he closed the laptop as he started reading the report he’d set aside a few hours ago when he’d been sorting his mail pile into important, urgent, and trash.

Half an hour later, he walked down the Pentagon halls, searching for one Admiral Woodland, who was overseeing this particular investigation. He was also the senior officer supervising the initial list Admiral Coleman had given him last week. Of the forty incidents, four Navy vessels and seventeen commercial ships had been sabotaged one way or another in the past two years, under extremely difficult conditions. They thought other navies around the world had experienced the

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