Pitfall (26 page)
Authors: Cameron Bane
He shook his head and scowled, not getting it.
I plowed on, my voice jagged. “One of the surviving agents witnessed Cross walk up to Walt, who was already shot and dying, and call him by his name. Then he pulled Walt’s gun out of his hand and shot him again, point blank.”
Seth gaped. “He knew his name? That means he knew the two of you were friends. How did he know that?”
“Maybe he has somebody inside the bureau,” I gritted. “Maybe somehow he got to the agent that’s supposedly sick. Who cares?” My hands clenched. “But right before Cross vanished in an unmarked van, the agent saw him bend down and dip his hand into the wound in Walt’s chest.”
Seth stared, for once without anything to say.
I charged ahead, “They saw him scrawl a message across one of the black SUV’s broken windshields. It was a single word, written in Walt’s blood.”
Seth shook with barely contained violence, his eyes blazing with white-hot rage as he stared unblinking into my own. “What was the word?”
I ground it out. “Revenge.”
Shelly’s husky voice held a full measure of horror. “Against
you?”
Without turning his head, Seth answered her. “Who else?”
My gaze was still locked on him, my reply tight, guttural, and spoken with savage promise. “Not if we get him first.”
“So how are we going to do that?” Seth demanded.
“Bob said they tracked Cross to Lunken Field, where he and his men hauled out on a private Learjet. They lost him after that; no transponder aboard. But with what happened today, Homeland Security now has him listed as a domestic terrorist, so they’re involved.”
“Domestic terrorist.” Seth shook his head in agony. “That’ll do us no good if he winds up somewhere with no extradition.”
“Screw extradition.” My throat felt clotted with rage. “He may have gotten away, but it’s not going to be as clean as he hoped.”
Seth’s eyes glinted with a dark and dangerous purpose. “Because Eli Cross now has two very pissed-off, highly trained, extremely motivated Rangers on his ass.”
“That psychopath’s day is going to come, and at a time he least expects it.” My tone was graveyard black. “And right before I end him, however long that takes, I want to look straight into his eyes and let him know exactly who it is that’s taking his life.”
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