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kage is secure. B
hermal imaging showed her team moving with practiced efficiency, their objective complete. The air hummed with the l
f from the world hundreds of feet beneath the North Pacific. A subordinate, a yo
here friendly icons were already moving toward the extraction point.
hattered the st
was a ringtone, a simple, jarring melody that had n
the source. The sound came from a small, hardene
y line. The
rung in
s. The icy calm in her gut fractured, replaced by a sudden, sickeni
ave th
The phone continued its cheerful, terrible ringing. Her hand was steady as she pic
brot
, pressing the phone
g, interspersed with the muffled sound of unfamiliar voices shouti
.. help
hrough the satellite connection and straight into her chest. Her heart, a steady, disciplined
ow, urgent whisper. She kept her tone even, fighting to project a ca
followed by Ethan's sharp cry of pai
le
tched in her hand. The pressure in her grip was immense, the plastic
p twenty degrees. The professional detachment in her eyes was gone, replaced
shouldering her subordinate aside. Her fingers flew across th
race that call's last known signal. I want its location
seen her through hell in three different continents, stare
stion it. "Ye
ed datapad from her belt, her thumbs a blur as she sliced through firewalls, hacking into the databases of three diff
uis's trace resolved i
derelict plantation dee
icate turf," Louis s
int. "Get me a Ghost Bird. Fu
a by-the-book reputation, hesitated. "Commander
his console. It was stark red, engraved with a single, te
y. All color drained from his face. He snapped to
handle mission wrap-up. Report to the Pentagon that I'm ta
pair of tactical goggles, the dark lenses hiding the infe
single hair out of place, I will wi
rds the submarine's vertical launch bay, where a
collective shock rippling through them. They had only ev
ere seeing the woman. And

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