Page 155 of Renegade
As the team acknowledged her text, fury surged through him.
“I should never have left,” he bit out. “This is on me.”
Caroline placed her hand on his back. “How long are you going to beat yourself up over this?”
His gaze found hers. “How is thisnotmy fault?”
“We’re part of a team, Grey.”
“I work alone.”
“No, when you did missions, you had me,” she murmured. “I wasn’t physically with you, but there were plenty of times I bailed your ass out. It’s not gonna help if you shoulder this. Everyone here is trained. Those two are ALPHA BLACK OPS. They made a mistake. We learn from it and we move on.”
He pulled her close. She wrapped her arms around him, hugged him hard.
“We’re doing the best we can.” She peered into his eyes, kissed his cheek. “If anything, you should be acting all cocky. You saved our asses, big time.” She shot him a smarmy smile.
He kissed her once, broke away. “Thanks.”
His phone rang. It was Teddy. Greystone answered, put the phone to his ear. “Go.”
“Am I on speaker?”
“No.”
“I’m at the Black site,” Teddy said. “I’m in one of the extremist chat rooms on the dark web. Someone posted a message to us. It says, ‘We know you have him. This is bigger than any 1 person. He won’t talk and he’s prepared to die a noble death.’”
“I’ll upload a pic of the body when we leave here,” Greystone said. “That’ll piss ‘em off.”
“The software program is having trouble matching JL’s employees with the mug shots. It failed the first run. I made changes and I’m running it again.”
“Nice work.”
“How long are you there?”
“Coupla hours,” Greystone replied.
“I’ll see you when you get back.”
Greystone killed the call, told Caroline about the posted message in the private chat group.
“Later, I’m postin’ his pic,” he told her.
“That’ll get them going.”
“That’s what I’m hopin’ for.”
“Aren’t you worried that’ll trigger them to blow up the buildings before the thirty-first?”
Grey raked his hands through his hair. “Worried? No. I’m angry as hell that we’ve got one dead terrorist and no more goddamn information than we had before we took him.”
When Greystone got angry enough, Greystone got answers. He was more than ready to take this attack to the next level.
Bring it on, motherfuckers. Bring it on.
