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Connor
I was halfway down the deck when Eve spoke in my ear. “Connor, there’s a problem.”
“What?” I whispered.
“Juan and Leo are on the other side of the yacht, but I’m not getting any video feeds of them.”
There was a dull WHUP in the distance, then another one a few seconds later.
Not like gunshots, exactly. But they did sound like a heavy book being dropped on a wood floor.
I ducked into an alcove with a door in it, and hunkered down into a squatting position. “Juan? Leo?”
“We separated, and Juan ran into a guard,”Leo’s voice said. “Juan’s dead, but I got the other guy before he could sound the alarm.”
SHIT. Already things were going to hell, and we’d barely engaged the enemy yet.
But… something didn’t make sense…
I frowned. “I heard two silenced shots. How come I didn’t hear any regular gunfire?”
“They’ve got suppressors, too. The first one was the guy shooting Juan, the second was me shooting the guard.”
I couldn’t put my finger on it, but something seemed off. I just chalked it up to the catastrophe of losing a quarter of our force within the first two minutes on the boat. That, and the stress of our lives being in danger.
Then Eve spoke in my ear. “Connor.”
“What?”
“I’ve isolated your radio band. Neither Johnny nor Leo can hear me.”
“Why?”
“I’m running blind – none of the security cameras are showing you guys. I think they’re running recordings or something, because I can’t see Juan or Leo, and I sure as hell didn’t see Juan get shot.”
“So?”
“So I don’t know who shot him.”
The subtext of what she was saying was horrifying – partly because I already knew that something was wrong with Leo’s story.
“You think Leo – ?”
“I don’t know. Stay where you are until I figure out what the hell is going on.”
I stayed in the alcove, listening for any sound, any footstep. There was nothing.
I started sweating. “Eve – ?”
“Not now – hold on – ”
Easier said than done. My imagination was running away with me.
Could Leo have shot Juan? I could barely conceive of it. I’d had every new member of my team vetted a dozen times over –
…except for Eve.
