Page 61 of Striker
The completion bar showed that the process was only at 6 percent.
“How long will it take?”
“Prolly a half hour. I’ve got it locked on the city. Hopefully he’s still here.”
Ring, ring, ring
The phone Atlas had given her sounded from the bedroom.
“That’s prolly him.”
She hopped to her feet and ran to the bedroom. Snapping the phone off the nightstand, she answered. “Hello?”
“Hey.” Atlas’s smooth, casual greeting melted the anxiety piled on her chest.
“Hi.” She crossed the room and shut the bedroom door, then returned to the bed, where she flopped onto her back. “I was worried about you.”
“Don’t. I’m fine.”
“You were in an explosion,” she retorted, irritated he was downplaying what had happened.
He only chuckled. “Mol, if I were in an explosion, nothing would protect me. I was near one.”
“Same thing!”
“Not really, babe,” he said with amusement. “We’re all good.”
“I wish you were here.”
He sighed. “Me, too. Rex got away, and we’re fucking pissed. Our contact within Rex’s organization was killed—somehow, our mole was discovered.
“I’m sorry. If anyone can catch him, it’s you and your team.”
He grunted. “We should’ve caught him already.”
She lowered her gaze and picked at the material on her leggings. If it weren’t for their finding her at Rex’s, they wouldn’t be in this situation. She’d derailed their whole mission and now they might not complete their mission.
She wanted to tell him to hell with Rex. That none of this was worth risking his life for. But she couldn’t say that. Atlas had chosen his career path long before they’d met and it wasn’t her place to tell him what to do.
But oh, how her heart ached at the thought of him being close to an explosion. In an instant he could’ve been taken from this world and?—
“Molly, what are you thinking?”
She chewed her bottom lip. “That you nearly getting blown up is going to give me gray hair.”
“Baby, nothing bad will happen to me. Not today. But I wanted to tell you that I don’t want you to wait up. We’ve gotta get Rex tonight, before he escapes the country.”
“I understand.” She wanted Rex caught as much as he did—she just didn’t want to lose Atlas in the process. “Do you have any idea where he could be?”
“Not a fuckin’ clue. We’ve got our eyes and ears ready. Reaper’s made friends with some of the locals, so he’s got his feelers out right now.”
God, she hoped he found them soon.
“We’ll get him. We always win, Molly.”
“I have no doubt. I just want you to be safe.”
“The important thing is that you are. Now, it’s late. Get some rest because I’m already horny as fuck and when I see you in the morning, I’m not gonna wait.”
