dream

PART 20

Miller grabbed the radio.

“Do not advance! I repeat, do not advance!”

A second later, the bomb squad channel exploded with confirmations.

Vance’s voice came through.

“Who identified that device?”

Miller looked at me.

I shook my head.

He understood.

“Your medical officer,” he said.

Static.

Then Vance said, “That’s impossible.”

The word barely left the radio before I caught the Engineer in my scope again.

He was climbing toward a motorbike hidden behind a rock shelf.

I could have taken the shot.

Clean.

Easy.

But my mission had never been revenge.

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Alive, he could talk.

Alive, he could name the leak.

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