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Chapter 356: Saturday. Beach, Miami, Florida.
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Aegis Group Chapter 357: Saturday. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Georgia.
VARA TAPPED HER PHONE screen, but the device was sluggish. She needed to switch over to a new cell on an American network. It just hadn't been a priority. Now it seemed silly that she hadn't taken care of that already.Alec hauled himself out of the seat in the row ahead of her and wrangled their bags out of the overhead bins. They'd agreed that remaining in Miami seemed like a bad idea. Somehow they'd gotten home, packed and boarded the plane in an hour and a half. She didn't know where they were headed now or what Alec's plan was, but she was glad to be in another city.She pressed her phone to her ear and followed Alec down the aisle off the plane.Chad's phone rang. And rang. His voicemail picked up.Vara ended the call. She wasn't leaving him another message, not when she had nothing worthwhile to say.Once they were off the plane Alec offered her his hand."What's our plan now?" It was strange to ask someone else that question. For the last few years she was the one making
Aegis Group Chapter 358: Saturday. Aegis Group Safe House, Atlanta, Georgia.
ALEC DIDN'T LIKE HOW quiet Vara had been while they tidied up from dinner. With the others around he wasn't going to press her to talk to him. She'd drawn into herself even more and he didn't know how to get through to her. It felt as though ever since they'd gotten to Florida she'd drawn farther and farther away from him. He was going out of his fucking mind.He grabbed their bags and led the way up the stairs to the tune of yet more silence. At least once they were alone he could tease some conversation out of her. Their time was literally ticking down. Tomorrow he was flying to Seattle. He needed her to agree to go with him. She had to stay with him.Alec picked one of the remaining rooms at random and opened the door for Vara.The room was large and comfortable with two queen beds and an attached bathroom. It was one of the suites that would be earmarked for the team's use on an op, saving the larger, more luxurious rooms for clients. He set their things on top of the dresser an
Aegis Group Chapter 359: Saturday. Miami, Florida.
WYATT CHECKED THE PARKING lot. Again.Still no unusual activity.They'd found a pay by the hour motel and checked in. The aim was to regroup, make some calls and figure out where the hell they were going next.Vara didn't have the package.They'd searched the condo and rental car a few times through the week. The only place it could have been was Vara's tote bag, and all that had yielded was sand, sunscreen and granola bar wrappers.This job was going to hell fast.He glanced over his shoulder at Ivan who'd been glued to his phone for hours.If Wyatt wasn't careful, he'd end up a casualty in this drama, and if he died his mother and sisters would suffer. He didn't know what the damn package was, and he didn't care. Nothing was more important than his family's wellbeing. Whatever secured that was Wyatt's priority.Which was why his path was subject to Kolya's whim. Wyatt couldn't risk having a mob boss for an enemy. Not with his family vulnerable."Misha is taken care of," Ivan
Aegis Group Chapter 360: Sunday. HartsfieldJackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, Georgia.
ALEC TWISTED IN HIS seat to watch Vara walk back to the galley. She's done this on their other flights. Tight, confined spaces with no way out clearly weren't her thing. He'd try and distract her when she came back."Hey," Zain mumbled. He shifted to his left but didn't glance up."Yeah?" Alec leaned toward his boss and toyed with Vara's screen."Guy two rows back, aisle seat?""You noticed him, too?" Alec had tagged the guy as an odd duck the moment they got on the plane. He'd noticed the looks he tossed Vara's way enough that Alec had a habit of keeping the guy on the edge of his peripheral vision.The man was of average build with thick, black-rimmed glasses. He wore a polo shirt, jeans and a sport coat, but his shoes were dirty old sneakers. His sandy colored hair hadn't been washed lately either.Vara continued to nervous-pace, stretch and mutter to herself. It was cute. She was a creature of action, always needing an activity. She couldn't just sit and do nothing.He'd hav
Aegis Group Chapter 361: Sunday. Alec's House, Seattle, Washington.
VARA'S IMPRESSION OF ALEC'S ranch-style house was that it was large and had some nice trees around it. Anything else was hard to make out in the darkness with the ongoing drizzle.She was ready to be done with travel.Her hands burned, and she had a few blisters on her forehead, but other than that she was fine. The topical ointment made them barely noticeable. Still, another close call had her rattled and ready to hide. She wasn't that strong. She wasn't that much of a badass. She was just a woman with a big heart."Come on, I've got you." Alec wrapped his arm around her, lifting his jacket over her head to shield her.She wasn't worried about the rain, but she wanted to stay close to him. They darted up the drive and across the path to the front door.Music and laughter sounded from inside.Alec glanced down at her."You don't have to hang out. My room's down the hall on the left, second door on the right, okay?""I'm fine," she said.He bent and kissed the top of her head.
Aegis Group Chapter 362: Sunday. Alec's House, Seattle, Washington.
ALEC CURSED UNDER HIS breath. He'd hoped for a phone call, an easy explanation for the assassination attempt. If Zain was showing up in person, this wasn't good news."Have a seat?" Alec toed a chair away from the table."Thanks." Zain said and laid his tablet on the table.Paxton followed, but remained standing. Ryan stood at the end of the table, hands braced on the corners."Our dead guy from the plane is Russian. No surprise there." Zain brought up a New York driver's license, naming Vara's attacker as Igor Somethingshecouldntpronounce. "He was a chemist. Got bounced from several jobs due to a number of violations. He was on a couple watch lists and a suspected supplier. He wasn't an assassin. This was a lab rat.""But we know who he is and that he's connected to the Russian mob?" Alec reached over and placed his hand on Vara's knee. He wanted to hold her hands, but the chemical burns were still fresh."We do." Zain's frown deepened."What?" Alec didn't like that frown."Th
Aegis Group Chapter 363: Sunday. Alec's House, Seattle, Washington.
WYATT STARED AT THE gray house with the small army of cars and trucks in the driveway and lined along the curb. All the other homes had maybe one vehicle visible. Not this one.How many people were inside?Was this Vara's other team? Had she been working with these guys all along? Who was Vara Price, really?They'd met through a military contact. He'd been hesitant at first. Syria was in the grips of a civil war, but there was money to be had. Vara took the right risks, she knew how to get around. It had made for a good partnership.Had he been a fool this whole time?What else was Vara doing?In the end she'd used him and left their team on the ground die.Ivan muttered and smacked the side of the tablet."What?" Wyatt whispered.Ivan jabbed his finger in his ear then spat a curse and tossed the ear buds in the floorboard."The signal is gone," he said."She wasn't on the phone, was she?" Wyatt frowned."No." Ivan glared at the front of the house. "We know where she is. Wh
Aegis Group Chapter 364: Monday. Aegis Group Office, Seattle, Washington.
ALEC PULLED OUT A chair for Vara and held it while she sat with her coffee and bagel.The instructions for this morning had them meeting in the central command room. The space was the second secure room in the building, the other being Zain's personal office. From this room they could handle any number of sensitive tasks, like facial recognition and real-time digital tracking. But most of all, for this morning's purposes, their communication feed was encrypted. Someone was joining them remotely and Alec was curious who that person might be.Today was going to be a long day of figuring out how the hell they were going to handle this threat. Someone was after his girl and he wasn't going to let that happen on his watch.What was worse, there would be people out there who would think she was Djinn even once this blew over. That came with its own set of dangers they'd have to sort out.For now, the Russian mob boss and whatever the hell the Russian intelligence community was up to was
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