Page 156 of Affair
“She never mentioned a doctor. Merry, if you can hear me, are any of the people on that platoon list a doctor?” she asked.
It took a minute.
“Nope. No Marine doctors,” she said.
Jagger corrected her.
“The doctor wouldn’t be in the Marines. They’d be a Navy man who was embedded with them.”
She looked again.
“Nope,” she said. “There are no Navy dudes on the list. All are Marines or Royal Army.”
Well, shit.
“Then who is the doctor?” Jagger asked.
Only, they didn’t get to keep talking about that.
Eve gave them a heads-up.
“The two you just encountered walked toward the front of the house, and heading your way, Major,” she warned.
Oh, she saw them.
“Copy. They are getting into a sedan. Jagger and I are going to follow. I’ll put my tracker on. Find us. We will have to detain them shortly. I want to know what they know. I want to know who the doctor is, and if Clint Rust has that key. We might be able to use that key to lure in Von Donore.”
Now, that was a good plan.
As for them tailing them…
That worked for them.
“See you at Thomas Lewiston’s home, or wherever this wild goose chase is taking us,” Zayn admitted.
Honestly, Maura didn’t know. This was not normally how they worked a case. This was like a scavenger hunt.
They were looking for pieces of this puzzle.
Oh, and so far, they were finding out plenty.
Now, would it be enough to take out Von Donore?
Truthfully…
That was anyone’s guess.
* * * Hunters * * *
Area Fifty-Two
Outside
Same Time
When Elizabeth realized that Gene wasn’t inside the concrete lair, she went looking for him. With a little help from MATE, she was able to find him.
On the upper deck, where the helicopter had been, sitting in a lounge chair, the man was chilling out.
