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“I’d say it’s nice to meet you all, but I don’t want to lie straight off the bat,” she said, narrowing her gaze on Albany. “You shot me.”
“Guilty,” he said, leaning on his pool cue. “Following orders, ma’am.”
“Please take a seat,” Garrick said, directing her onto a vacant couch facing the pool table.
The three men seated in the same area watched her walk around and sit.
It was unnerving. The men were gripped by her every subtlety.
Being the freak show in a room of super-agents wasn’t much of a warm welcome.
“The first thing you should know and always remember is no one here will hurt you,” Garrick said, striding to an armchair on the other side of the room. “You are valuable. Very valuable.”
“No one ever says they won’t hurt me just because I’m such a great gal,” she said to little response. “What are you all doing here?”
“P brought us in.”
“Each of the men here has a synthetic isotope in their blood,” Garrick said. “It was an experimental procedure, something we were running when the Exodus happened.”
“When we all scattered from the beta site a year ago,” Milo said.
Yeah, after Zeus learned of the plot to assassinate him, Harry sent an alert telling his men to bolt. That much she knew. Now the incident had a name.
“How much do you know, Pandora?” Boze asked.
The men’s scrutiny intensified.
“I know enough,” Tess said, knowing better than to blink first. “Doesn’t tell me what you’re all doing here.”
“The isotope control module is the only thing that can trace subjects. Unfortunately, it’s a prototype, we didn’t move past the initial stages. The control module only works in a narrow radius, less than a hundred miles and it’s not precise. As these men came into its field, I, or we, worked to recruit them.”
“Still doesn’t tell me what you’re doing here now.”
“Regrouping,” Garrick said. “I don’t have Z’s strategic skill or H’s operational expertise. My role is to facilitate mission needs.”
“So gathering everyone together is just your way of maintaining Olympus status quo?”
“Things can never go back to the way they were,” Garrick said. “Z is an enemy of Olympus now. Tracking Harry would be impossible, even for me. If, somehow, I’d found him, none of us would get near him. All we could hope was that at some point, he’d approach the Six.”
“Or what’s left of them,” Boze said.
“Two and five are dead,” she said, judging the reactions on the surrounding faces.
Albany and Milo put down their cues. She hadn’t heard any balls ricochet, yet, apparently, the game was over. They stood in front of the tall windows, their backs to the patio.
“Three was the easiest to monitor,” Garrick said. “We waited for Hades to show up, it was all we could do.”
“Third generation casino owner,” she said. “If you knew it and Harry knew it, doesn’t Z know it?”
“Z is in Europe,” Garrick said. “I’ve been monitoring him.”
“How do you…” Tess pushed to the edge of her seat. “If you know where he is and that he’s so terrible, why didn’t you finish the mission?”
“End him?” Boze said.
“Wasn’t our mission,” Lowe said. “Harry has the objectives, but he hasn’t issued orders… at least not to any of us.”
“Couldn’t be Ares mission either,” Zip said.
