Total pages in book: 146
Estimated words: 136425 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 682(@200wpm)___ 546(@250wpm)___ 455(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 136425 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 682(@200wpm)___ 546(@250wpm)___ 455(@300wpm)
Lucy didn’t look sure. She was staring at her laptop. “Hey, Kala, you get that text?”
Kala walked back in, staring at her phone. “Did you run the pictures Lou sent?”
“She already has facial recognition.” Lucy whistled. “I don’t like that Interpol is at the train station. We should have brought her in by car, but my mother insisted on public transit.”
“Hey, Shannon Reed insisted on it,” Kala corrected. “Don’t blame your mom. She’s doing everything she can to help us. Okay. Lou and Tash are handling this. There are tunnels they can get Zach out of. Cooper will try to distract them and our dads will get Shannon out, but we have to consider the fact that Huisman is either at the station or close by monitoring. Put his picture through Tris’s program.”
From what she’d heard this morning, Tristan’s program was some kind of upgraded facial recognition with superfast results.
“On it.” Lucy’s hands moved across the keys.
Kala was staring down at her phone, obviously waiting for something.
Interpol. The European police force that had a notice out on Zach was at the train station. Her gut twisted. It was too much of a coincidence. They had to be there for Zach. Who could have tipped them off? They’d been careful on the train. They were certain the cameras hadn’t caught Zach, but what if they’d caught her at some point and Huisman had told the police that Zach was traveling with her? What if she was the reason Zach was about to get hauled to prison? “Where will they take him?”
“Don’t worry about that now,” Kala replied, her thumbs working the screen of her phone. “The team will get him out. We need to prep to move. I’m waiting for the bug-out call. Devi, go and pack what you need. We’re moving out of here in ten minutes tops.”
“You don’t want to hole up?” Lucy asked.
“If they know we’re here, all they have to do is sit outside the panic room and wait for the doors to open,” Kala pointed out. “It would be one thing if the team was coming back, but we all need to move and give them a bunch of targets to try to follow. We’re going to London.”
“We?” Lucy asked, challenging her.
“Yes, fucking we. I’m not leaving you here. I’m the senior officer and you’re going with me. I’m not going to let you fall into Huisman’s hands. He would absolutely turn you and you would be a chaotic goddess who would kill us all. So get the fuck ready to move out.” Kala strode away, putting the phone to her ear.
Devi stood, adrenaline starting to pour through her. Zach was out there. People were after him. “What if they try to kill him at the station?”
“They won’t. They’ll take him in.” Lucy sounded so reasonable. “Your uncle and his team will get him out.”
“But this guy, Huisman, he’s known for blowing crap up, and he doesn’t care who he hurts. I should know. I was in the last place he set on fire.”
Lucy looked up. “First, the facial rec doesn’t show him here in Liverpool or anywhere in England. Now I do have a couple of known Disrupt members entering the train station about five minutes ago, so we have two problems. I think Huisman is going to use Interpol to distract the team, and while they’re worried about Zach and trying to deal with that, the mercenaries will pick off Shannon Reed or one of our people who they will offer to trade her for.”
“You mean they’ll try to get Lou or Tash?”
Lucy nodded. “Yes, but I assure you they’re already on the move. Tash and Lou know how to handle themselves. My question is who tipped them off? Mom and Shannon are traveling on excellent faked passports. I checked as they moved through security. It should have worked. I wouldn’t have allowed my mother to get on that train if I wasn’t sure I had protected her. She and Shannon are wearing some tech that tricks facial recognition.”
“We can’t let Huisman get hold of any of us. Kala nearly died.” The idea of her cousin being in that madman’s hands again made her want to throw up.
“I’m surprised to hear that. All the stories around the Agency are that Miss Magenta is immortal.”
“She’s not. Lucy, I’m not joking. What Huisman did to her nearly killed her. It still might because we’re not sure how much long-term damage he did to her heart. If he gets her again, he’ll use a paralytic on her, and then he has drugs that inflict unbelievable amounts of pain on the body. I heard her cry. I heard it. If she has to go through that again, her heart won’t be able to take it.”
“It hurt her heart? I didn’t know she had one of those,” Lucy replied.