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My stomach flip-flopped, and dizziness washed over me. I couldn’t do this. I couldn’t stay here. My hand was on the doorknob when my phone buzzed. The number wasn’t the one I’d used to contact my handler, but the text included the correct code word.
Why was he using a new phone? The hairs on the back of my neck stood up. Something was wrong. When I didn’t respond, he texted again.
Where are you?
I was captured, but I’m out now.
Captured by who? Montgomery?
Yes.
You need to watch your back.
No shit.
Something’s going down. Every search I do to try and uncover the parties involved gets blocked.
Blocked how?
Dead ends. Documents missing. Files corrupted. People who say they forgot when I know they never forget a word spoken to them.
Fuck, this goes deeper than we thought.
It does, and I can’t help you anymore.
What do you mean?
You’re being cut loose. Your mission failed, and the agency will pretend you’ve never worked for us. As far as the agency is concerned, you don’t exist.
What the fuck?
You knew this could happen.
You still have no idea where this started or who tried to set up C?
Look into his family. That’s the last thing I can tell you.
Carter had said they were assholes, but would they do this? Maybe they had an enemy. No. Somehow that just didn’t fit.
What makes you think they are connected?
Got to go. Good luck.
I hadn’t wanted to join the fucking CIA, but I needed their resources if I was going to figure out who’d come after Carter and whether he was still in danger.
Give me another way to contact you.
The text failed to go through. He’d probably already destroyed the phone.
Fuck. I needed a hacker way more qualified than me.
My next text went out to Leo.
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CARTER
Ithought Miles would insist we go all the way back to the city, but instead we went to Ford and Jay’s house which only took a few minutes. None of us said anything on the ride there. When we’d been joined by Jay and we were all settled in his sunroom with drinks in our hands, Miles started to speak, but Worth cut him off. “Before we make any plans.”
