Chapter 49

DRAX'S POV

It's almost an hour already, and Billy hasn't called for his 30 minutes status update. I mused, as I wondered what had happened to him. We've only had two check-up calls, and when it was time for the third one that should have been thirty minutes later, I couldn't reach him.

We all sat down in the lounge monitoring the mission. I checked his gps tracker, and noticed he was still at the hunters' camp where he was supposed to be. But the problem was he had stopped moving. The dot on the gps' screen remained in one spot. Now it's been an hour without hearing from him. I wondered what went wrong. What was he doing?

I bit my fingers as I thought the worst, fearing that the mission had been compromised. What if he was caught while he was tampering with their equipment. They would immediately know that he was trying to sabotage their efforts in capturing me. What if he had been captured and interrogated? Would he rat us out and comprise the mission? What if they were already on the