“Nicely, preserve it collectively,” she says. “I received’t let something occur to you.”

“It’s not me I’m apprehensive about.”

Being pals with Caleb Fawn is loads tougher than I assumed it’d be. Instantly, each menace is way scarier than it needs to be. Each potential bug within the code is a virus simply ready to wipe out all the pieces of worth. The whole lot which means one thing to me.

Caleb nudges my shoulder. “We all know what we’re doing, Field,” she assures me.

I nod, dropping any drive I’ve to argue with it, however the black tar taking maintain of my intestine stays.

* * *

I stability my laptop computer within the sand and scan the radar for something that could possibly be a possible menace. Fox lies susceptible subsequent to me with one eye pressed in opposition to his scope, trying way more tense than typical.

“I see two inside,” he mutters into the radio. “They’re sitting at a desk. Seems to be like they’re ready on one thing.”

“Copy that,” Rhys whispers again.

I decide up the binoculars, flicking on the night time imaginative and prescient to get a greater view of the black warehouse within the distance. Caleb jumped on the likelihood to hitch Rhys, West, and Rogers in surrounding the warehouse and I’ve been a fucking wreck ever since. Even the same old shut up and keep right here wasn’t sufficient to calm me down. I see her now, her petite determine standing out among the many tall, muscled types of the others.

I didn’t hurl earlier than we got here out right here however I positive as hell would possibly now.

“Hey, Boxcar.”

I jolt barely at Fox’s voice. “What?”

“Don’t quit.”

“On what?”

“On her,” he says, nonetheless focusing by his scope.

“I don’t know what you imply.”

He peeks out at me, his brown eyes calling bullshit. “Take it from me, man. There aren’t numerous issues I consider in anymore… however I consider in you guys.”

“Why?” I ask.

“As a result of what’s the fucking level in any other case? The world binds us to sure individuals. Most are unhealthy however some are fairly good. I extremely doubt the 2 of you simply stumbled onto one another out of coincidence however even in case you did, you may’t waste it.” He pauses. “Not like I did.”

I stare forward into the black desert. “You make it sound straightforward.”

“Don’t make it tough. She’ll do this sufficient for each of you.”

“That’s in all probability true.”

Fox clicks on his radio. “Fall again, Serg. They hear you.”

I elevate the binoculars as panic strains my chest. Two blurry figures go by the warehouse home windows from the within, one bigger and balder than the opposite and my blood runs chilly.

“It’s them…”

I seek for Caleb, however I’ve misplaced her. Rhys and West stand across the entrance facet, pressed onerous in opposition to the wall to keep away from detection. I can’t discover Caleb or Rogers anyplace.

“The place is she?” I ask.

“She went across the again,” Fox solutions, readying his radio once more. “Caleb, they’re heading in your course. Get out of sight now—”

A single bullet fires.

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