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Aegis Group Task Force Chapter 298: Kelsey
Tuesday.KELSEY PEERED OVER THE seat at the dazed young man bound and gagged in the back of the car. She'd seen Felecia nail the guy with a baseball bat, but Kelsey had assumed the helmet had protected him. Now she was worried the kid had a concussion. Could be that or fear. He had to know getting caught was bad news for him.Did he have any idea who he'd attacked tonight? Or why?"He moving?" Harper asked."Not even a little." She twisted to face forward.He tilted the rearview mirror so he could see her face. "Thanks for checking on me back there."His words stung, though they dripped with sarcasm.She'd hoped Harper wouldn't remember her coming out of Logan's apartment.What did she say? What could she say?Kelsey wasn't ready to commit to Logan. Suddenly things were happening fast around them. She was drowning in feelings she didn't know how to deal with and then add Logan to the mix? It was too damn much. She was suffocating under the pressure of it all."He
Last Updated : 2022-11-24Aegis Group Task Force Chapter 299: Logan
Tuesday. Safe House. Washington, DC.LOGAN WAS IN A piss poor mood and it had nothing to do with his home being violated, the attack on him or his team, or the disaster that was their current assignment. No, it was all centered on one person. Kelsey.He'd retreated into the narrow office in the condo to separate himself from the others while he got his head in the game. Still, all he could do was think about Kelsey.Where had he gone wrong? How had he screwed up this badly?All he'd wanted to do was check on her. That was it. He hadn't realized she was going to cut out his heart.Fuck.He resisted the urge to press his hand to his chest to check for a wound.They hadn't spoken in a few hours, but the wounds were still fresh.Kelsey had faulted him for his concern for her. And here he'd congratulated himself for not being selfish and asking her to ride with Harper. Damn it, he was doing his best to adapt. Couldn't she give him some time to adjust? Shouldn't they be al
Last Updated : 2022-11-24Aegis Group Task Force Chapter 300: Kelsey
Tuesday. Safe House. Washington, DC.KELSEY'S INSIDES FELT LIKE crap.It was like she was divided in half.One part of her was freaking out and a complete mess. That was the idiotic part of her that had been in control earlier when she'd wrecked everything with Logan.Had she really broken up with him? Had they ever been together? Could she break up with someone she wasn't technically dating? Were they going to find Nadine? Had anyone died in the fires? Was this job too much for her? Should they cut their losses and turn away?Her other half was emotionless, dazed and stuck merely watching events unfold around her. That was where she was now.She pulled her brush through her hair and stared at her reflection. Outwardly she looked like herself, if a little worse for wear. But on the inside? She was a mess.After her awkward shift on watch, she'd crawled into bed and slept. Or tried to. Dozed was more like it. She'd never truly settled in, always tossing and turning. Mor
Last Updated : 2022-11-24Aegis Group Task Force Chapter 301: Logan
Tuesday. Everest Security Offices. Washington, DC.LOGAN WAS OFF-BALANCE. His team was there, minus Kelsey. Technically nothing was missing. And yet, without her there it felt as though a piece of him were gone.He wasn't done with her or whatever had made her panic, but he also recognized that now was not the time. He hated not having her there, but at least she was safe for now. He didn't have to worry about her getting into a knife fight or taking a bullet for someone. Still, he missed her cocky arrogance and how she softened it with smiles and quick with.She hadn't been gone more than a few hours.Shit.Logan briefly closed his eyes. He had to get his head in the game."TL?" Tucker called out.It was time.Logan swallowed and adjusted the strap on the helmet he wore. That done, he turned and joined his team plus the lead officer executing the warrant."Any movement?" Logan asked."No," Evan responded. He'd been working with the team surveilling the place. Ae
Last Updated : 2022-11-24Aegis Group Task Force Chapter 302: Skilton, Kelsey, Skilton
Tuesday. Unknown.SKILTON'S VISION HAZED RED.He was working with incompetent idiots. All of them.Despite his vast network, he'd only received a ten minute warning before the cops arrived. Ten minutes was too little time to do much of anything. He'd stood up and left without saying a word. He hadn't even grabbed the hard-copy files he'd printed out.This wasn't the job he'd come to America prepared for.Nadine and her blasted Task Force. They were a plague, spreading everywhere.Skilton had come for the express purpose of making an example out of John Dixon. So far the only person becoming an example was Skilton himself.This would not do.He had to get ahold of this situation. All of it.Skilton pulled out his phone.Earlier, he'd sent an encoded message to Dixon directly. Skilton hoped that by offering an end to all of this, he could lure Dixon into the open. The man liked to pretend he was in control, but the truth was Dixon needed to be managed. With Robert
Last Updated : 2022-11-24Aegis Group Task Force Chapter 303: Logan
Tuesday. Everest Security Headquarters, Washington, DC.LOGAN KNEW THE PARAMEDICS were just doing their job, but he was done being poked, prodded and questioned. He wanted a damn phone. He wanted answers.How had they so narrowly missed their target? And where was everyone?He squinted, trying to peer past all the lights to find a familiar face, but all he saw were officers. Tucker and the guys had been forced back once the fire department arrived to begin excavating him from the rubble. Logan hadn't heard or seen them since passing the files through for them to scan and get to the girls. He knew they wouldn't leave him behind technically speaking, but so much was happening at once.No, he needed to be honest with himself. While he did want to know how the guys and the case was progressing, he knew better. Deep down he wanted to know where Kelsey was and if she was okay. He'd thought knowing she was at some secure site would give him comfort, but the reality was that so long
Last Updated : 2022-11-24Aegis Group Task Force Chapter 304: Kelsey
Tuesday. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Washington, DC.KELSEY'S BOTTOM WAS GOING numb. She'd already tried shifting, but her bonds were so tight the best she could do was alternate which way she leaned. Her mind kept supplying her with that disturbing headline she'd read about a man having to get his legs amputated because he fell asleep on a toilet and cut off circulation to his feet.She didn't want to lose her feet.That wasn't all she stood to lose right now.One of the beefy guys that didn't speak much English strode down the center aisle of the plane. She stilled and stared at the seatback to her left.Why had they secured her to the leg of a chair? Why not give her a little courtesy and tie her sitting in a comfy chair? Was this intentional? Some sort of psychological trick?The man passed her without a glance.She peered after him, but her line of sight was hindered by a partial wall that sectioned off the rear galley.Where was Dixon?The man
Last Updated : 2022-11-24Aegis Group Task Force Chapter 305: Logan
Tuesday. Federal Detention Center. Washington, DC.IT WAS A GOOD thing Logan couldn't enter the detention center with his gear on. In his foul mood he was likely to want to use it. Removing that temptation was for the best.He stared at the back of the offer's head guiding them through the building.Zora had quickly organized the relocation of all of the detainees they'd been holding at the secure site. It was blind luck that Skilton hadn't taken an interest in the facility he'd broken into beyond capturing his targets. He could have wiped out everyone they'd captured.From what Logan understood, most of the team was here as well. It was hard to see the fault in the plan to gather here, what with layers of security, thick walls, and dozens of armed guard's on-duty at all times.Diha hadn't been able to tell Logan much concerning Joon's disappearance. Logan had been surprised to hear that out of the four agents, Joon was the least suspicious. While his departure was wasn't
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Aegis Group Task Force Chapter 374: Quentin, Epilogue
A week later...QUENTIN WISHED HE COULD savor this moment. He slapped the cuffs on the pint-sized asshole who'd had Candi's life in the palm of his hand that fateful night. Was it just a week ago?This should be more satisfying.It was, in a way.Eleven perfectly timed arrests effectively cut off all the heads of Metis. According to Nadine's notes, there was still one unknown head of the organization out there. But they were not alone. Metis itself wouldn't be ordering the death of anyone else. But it didn't bring Nadine back. It didn't restore the time Quentin had lost with Candi. It did make the world a little better, and in the end that's what mattered. Nadine's final acts were all about sacrifice and justice.Quentin stepped back as the FBI agents continued doing their job.He'd been granted permission to be here. As CIA, he had no jurisdiction nor the ability to make an arrest. Still, putting those cuffs on the little asshole felt good.Nadine would be pleased.
Aegis Group Task Force Chapter 373: Candi
Sunday. Clementine Baker's Home, Washington, DC.CANDI CLUTCHED Q'S HAND in both of hers. "Is this it?""Yeah," he whispered.They stared at the moderate sized home in a DC suburb. Now and wind pelted them. Her teeth chattered. And yet, it felt good. The bone chilling cold reminded her that she was alive."Are we going to knock?" she asked."No. Come on. The FBI lookouts know why we're here."Q led her through the yard and a side gate. A uniformed police officer sat at the first-floor window watching them. Q nodded. Candi lifted a hand, but let it drop to her side without actually waving."This way."Solar lights chased away the shadows, making it less ominous. In a few hours, the world would wake up to a blanket of new snow. A clean slate.Candi didn't know how to feel right now.On one hand, they'd found Nadine. They'd done what they'd set out to do.But, Nadine was dead. Her final act had been to save Q and give them the means with which to combat two threat
Aegis Group Task Force Chapter 372: Quentin
Small hands shoved Quentin sideways a second before bullets erupted into the night.Quentin yelled. It was mixed rage and fear. He staggered sideways, only for Nadine to shove at him again."Move, damn it," she barked.They dove behind the shelter of a single boulder. This side of the creek the ground was rockier.Quentin yanked his sidearm out of his holster and sucked down air.Unlike the men at their back, Quentin didn't have unlimited ammunition. Not unless he took theirs."Give me a gun," Nadine hissed.He still couldn't trust her. "No.""Damn you," she growled."Come out and it'll be quick," a voice called out.Nadine laid a finger across her lips and stared him down.He opened his mouth, but she spoke first."You can't think I'm that stupid," she said. With her other hand she pointed back down the way they'd come.She wanted him to go to the creek?"I think you know what your options are," the man called out.Quentin's head knew he couldn't trust Na
Aegis Group Task Force Chapter 371: Quentin
Saturday. Harper's Ferry, VA.QUENTIN KEPT AN ARM right around Nadine and held to the broken stub of a branch. The ground beneath them had started to crumble. He wasn't convinced that they'd keep their perch if he let go.Damn it.Every time they made a move someone was in their path. And it wasn't always the same pair.Were all six circling him and Nadine? Did that mean they'd captured Candi? Or had she gotten away?He'd heard a couple of shots off in the distance. Could it be...?No.He had to keep his mind here and now.Quentin strained to hear anything. A leaf on the wind. The crunch of a boot. Something.To Nadine's credit, even her breathing was soundless.Could he trust her to not turn on him?He didn't think so.She leaned toward him until she could whisper ever so faintly in his ear. "Now."He understood her meaning. They were both watching and waiting for an opening. Words were unnecessary risks.One thing was certain, he could trust Nadine to h
Aegis Group Task Force Chapter 370: Candi
Candi's heart raced as she watched the man kneel by the bag and yank the zipper.She lunged left, behind a tree and drew her weapon.Overhead, there was no mistaking the whining whirl of helicopter blades. It might not be anyone friendly, but DC was about a half hour away by air. They'd called Q's contacts about forty-five minutes ago.Could that be help? More enemies? Something else?She didn't know, but she had to hope. She had to believe this wasn't how it was going to end."Hey!" the man barked. "Get back out here.""Keep the cash and let me go, no one has to know." She clicked the safety off the gun.Candi had mostly blocked out the fact that she'd shot and killed someone after being kidnapped. Now, it was on repeat in her mind.Could she do it again?If she got to tell Q she loved him-again-she'd pull the trigger.Her hands shook.The leaves rustled underfoot, allowing her to track the man's movements. She shifted around the tree, keeping it between them.
Aegis Group Task Force Chapter 369: Candi
Saturday. Harper's Ferry, VA.CANDI CROUCHED BETWEEN THE rotted out remnants of a tree and a dense holly bush. This was as close as she could get to the house without being seen.Where had Q and Nadine gotten to?Candi had run out of the house, unable to hear anything beyond the blood pumping in her ears. She'd pushed ahead, convinced those men were right behind her. The only thought in her head was that she couldn't lag behind or else Q would have to leave her.Only, it had happened the other way around.She didn't know when or how Q got separated from her, but when she'd paused to turn around and look, he was gone.Her teeth chattered together. Had something been on the news about a cold front? The winter had been awfully mild so far. It would be their luck for snow to settle in today.Please, no...Where were they?She cautiously peered out through the branches.All but one of the men who'd arrived at the house had gone into the woods.Was this a bad idea?
Aegis Group Task Force Chapter 368: Nadine
Friday. Harper's Ferry, VA.THIS WAS A DISASTER of her making.The stitch in Nadine's side felt like a knife was being plunged into her. That, or her scar tissue was warning her about the turning weather. The warm spell was most certainly over."This way," Quentin whispered.Her heart twinged.This was her fault.She was going to get this boy killed. And for what?Over the years, she'd lost her focus. She'd become a leaf, being blown about with no respite. She'd done things to stay afloat, things she regretted.Like involving Quentin.He didn't know it yet, but she wasn't leaving this forest alive."Shit," Quentin muttered."What-?"She never got the question out. Her foot slipped on the underbrush then she tripped on a root. Only, the ground wasn't where she thought it should be. She pitched forward and just kept going. Her shoulder hit the steep incline first, then the rest of her. Limbs tore at her clothing. Rocks scraped her skin. Something rubbery smacke
Aegis Group Task Force Chapter 367: Quentin
Friday. Safe House, Unknown, VA.QUENTIN HELD TIGHT TO Candi's hand. He kept glancing at her to make sure she was really there and he hadn't imagined her dramatic return. He had the urge to leave Nadine here and run away with Candi, somewhere it would be just the two of them forever.Instead, he secured the front door then stood in the entry staring at her."And here I thought you'd finally grown a brain," Nadine said dryly.Candi held up her other hand, extending just her middle finger in Nadine's direction.Quentin's phone buzzed. He knew before he pulled it out that it was Wesley. Quentin turned the screen toward Candi. She shrugged and didn't offer any insight into what he should say or do.He clicked the answer button and put it on speaker."Wesley, hey.""Is she there?" Wesley's voice was flat, emotionless.Quentin glanced at Candi. "Yeah."Wesley sighed heavily. "Damn it.""You're on speaker," Candi said."Do you have any idea what I sacrificed to help
Aegis Group Task Force Chapter 366: Candi
Friday.CANDI SLUMPED DOWN A bit more. Wesley gripped the steering wheel like he was on a race course. From where she sat, she could see the speed wavering between five and ten over the speed limit.He couldn't wait to get away from Q.Her heart nearly seized up just thinking that.She wrapped her arms around her more tightly, as if she could hold herself together with strength alone.It felt like history repeating itself.She had to leave because of Nadine for her own good.While Q remained where he was.Candi understood his resolve to carry through with his job. She really did. But her heart couldn't help but feel abandoned. Again.Q had chosen Nadine once over her, and now it was happening again.Yes, Candi knew it was different. This was about doing the right thing and protecting themselves."You're awfully quiet," Wesley finally said."Know your audience," she mumbled.He glanced at her. His sunglasses hid his eyes and made it impossible to guess at wh
