Nobody spoke.
Thor had moved behind my leg.
I felt the tremor in his body.
I knelt again.
“What did Marcus say?” I asked Daniel.
Daniel closed his eyes.
“Home compromised.”
The room disappeared around me.
“What else?”
“He said, ‘Cross changed the route.’”
Cross lunged toward the intercom.
Whitfield blocked him with one arm.
Daniel kept talking.
“He said there was no cleared team at the alternate site.
He said somebody had put them into an unverified compound.”
Hargrove sat down.
Actually sat.
Like his knees had given out.
I looked at him.
“You signed the behavioral assessment after Marcus died.”
He covered his mouth.
“Hargrove.”
His eyes lifted to mine.
“I was told the recording was classified beyond my access.”
“By Cross?”
He said nothing.
That was answer enough.
Keep reading — tap the button below to continue.
