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Looking up at her face, it occurred to him again that he was lost in this already. He was lost, and maybe she was, too, even if she didn’t know it yet.

The thought made him feel strangely guilty.

But only a little.

It was the last thought he had, before he pulled her mouth down to his.

Chapter29

A Real Fight

By the time I was ready to go in there, I was wound up, borderline nervous.

My adrenaline had more or less run out.

Too much time had passed.

I got pulled into an incident with the infiltration team before I could disentangle myself, which threw me on a number of levels. One, it took too long, like I said. I’d been on my way to go talk to Revik when I got pulled in. Also, before Balidor called me, I had zero idea the op in question was even taking place.

So, yeah, when it went south, I was lost.

I was also kind of pissed off.

I’d been aware of Loki’s extraction team being sent to Flushing, Queens, of course, to look for Dante’s mother. I’d even heard through the comms that morning that they found her––alive––which was a minor miracle.

I’d had absolutely no idea Revik diverted that team to D.C. sometime the night before, while it was still daylight in New York. Presumably, he’d done it while I was up on the deck, staring at the wake of the aircraft carrier.

That, or after I’d gone to sleep.

No one could even tell me what he’d sent them to look for in D.C.

Revik sent all the specific target information, encrypted, directly to Loki, along with schematics, an approach plan, several contingencies. Even Balidor didn’t have that information. Or Oli, who’d been the one to manually send the packet via the secure link.

No one could tell me what had happened to Loki, either––who’d apparently been shot. Or Ontari, who’d been killed. Radio silence had been in effect since the Chinook left the White House grounds.

Needless to say, I wasn’t happy.

They’d lost no one on the ground in New York, during the op to pick up Dante’s mother. Hours later, they divert to D.C., and one of our best infiltrators is shot, we lose Ontari, another high-ranked Adhipan infiltrator, and at least two other seers sustain serious injuries––all on a mission I didn’t even know about, much less clear.

So yeah, I was pissed.

Granted, I could see the hypocrisy in that.

After all, I’d just delivered orders to send us to Dubai without talking to Revik about it beforehand. Even so, I was pretty blown away Revik had done something that reckless, andright afterthat mess in Macau. Even apart from the thought of losing more friends, we weren’t exactly flush in high-ranked seers these days.

He’d better have a damned good reason for what he’d done.

I fought to shove that from my mind as I aimed my feet in the direction of the tank.

None of what I’d learned put me in the best frame of mind.

I couldn’t put it off any longer, though.

It was time for us to have a real talk.

* * *

He was there,at least.

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