program. However, according to Dave Rydell it is more. What they were doing with Mai Zhang with the brainwashing was horrific and he’s finally getting to the bottom of it.”
“A breeding program?” Seth sat on the corner of the hotel bed, and stared out the large window, noting the sky was beginning to lighten. Soon the sun would peak over the horizon. How had his life managed to change so drastically in just four hours?
Brice sat in the chair next to the window so they could look at one another. “Yeah, a breeding program. Look, we’ve been tracking this group for nine months. It’s a corporation called Rixitron. The more strings we pull, the more crap falls out. This company has offices all over the world, and its grubby little hands are into all kinds of things. We know it’s in bed with all kinds of nasty characters.” Brice rubbed the back of his neck and looked at Seth before continuing.
“Besides the breeding, we figure their pharmaceuticals arm has got to be interested in how we acquire languages. What we know for sure is they first came to New Mexico looking for you, when they couldn’t find you, they discovered you had a daughter and she became a target. Your grandmother hid both Annie and Nell.”
“How did all of you get involved?”
“The naval team following the Rixitron thug realized Annie and Nell were in danger. They did everything they could to get to them first. The leader of the team is Lieutenant Commander Noah Kukailimoku, and he’s found as well. He’s able to find.” Brice chuckled. “Get it. A found who can find things.”
“Yeah, I get it. Just get on with it,” Seth growled.
“Jesus Nate, our boy doesn’t seem to have much of a sense of humor.”
“Cut him some slack Brice, he just discovered he had a daughter an hour ago, he has a right to want answers.” Nate turned to Seth. “Noah and Riley brought Annie, your grandmother and daughter to safety. They’ve been in a safe house in California for the past seven months. Nobody is going to get to them, I promise.”
Seth took his first full breath since his dream on the balcony. He gave Nate a grateful smile.
“Why haven’t you called in your team? Why are you working all on your own?” Nate asked Seth.
“I’m not working on my own. There is one person at the DEA I trust, it is my boss’s boss. Somebody on my team is dirty, maybe a couple of someones. On my previous assignment, it went bad, two of my team died, it had to be someone on the inside gave us up. When I went to Greg on this, he wouldn’t believe it of his team. My gut tells me Greg isn’t in on it, but he’s blind. So I went over his head. The commander is watching the team, hopefully he’ll flush out the rotten eggs while I’m gone, but in the meantime he’s the only one who knows my cover, and he’s the only one I’m feeding information.”
“Who’s Greg?” Sierra asked.
“Greg’s the leader of my task force. I went to his boss, Lee Isaacson, he’s the Deputy Director of the DEA.”
“You took a pretty big chance your team wouldn’t find you with the magazine spread on your wedding. It’s how we discovered you.”
“Portia allowed it be published in only two magazines, and she ran it by me. One was a bridal, the other some kind of society magazine in the Miami Sunday paper. We were safe, like my team was going to be reading either one of those.” What’s more Seth still looked at those pictures and didn’t even recognize himself. How had they made him look like some kind of model?
“Wait, are you telling me Annie saw those?” Seth felt his blood run cold. In the entire year he had been with Annie he had never known her to pick up any kind of magazine like that. All of the pictures had been taken at the reception, Portia’s perfect outdoor garden reception. There were six damning pictures in the photo spread, culminating in the final picture of them kissing in the gazebo.
The only way he had been able to act so happy
“A breeding program?” Seth sat on the corner of the hotel bed, and stared out the large window, noting the sky was beginning to lighten. Soon the sun would peak over the horizon. How had his life managed to change so drastically in just four hours?
Brice sat in the chair next to the window so they could look at one another. “Yeah, a breeding program. Look, we’ve been tracking this group for nine months. It’s a corporation called Rixitron. The more strings we pull, the more crap falls out. This company has offices all over the world, and its grubby little hands are into all kinds of things. We know it’s in bed with all kinds of nasty characters.” Brice rubbed the back of his neck and looked at Seth before continuing.
“Besides the breeding, we figure their pharmaceuticals arm has got to be interested in how we acquire languages. What we know for sure is they first came to New Mexico looking for you, when they couldn’t find you, they discovered you had a daughter and she became a target. Your grandmother hid both Annie and Nell.”
“How did all of you get involved?”
“The naval team following the Rixitron thug realized Annie and Nell were in danger. They did everything they could to get to them first. The leader of the team is Lieutenant Commander Noah Kukailimoku, and he’s found as well. He’s able to find.” Brice chuckled. “Get it. A found who can find things.”
“Yeah, I get it. Just get on with it,” Seth growled.
“Jesus Nate, our boy doesn’t seem to have much of a sense of humor.”
“Cut him some slack Brice, he just discovered he had a daughter an hour ago, he has a right to want answers.” Nate turned to Seth. “Noah and Riley brought Annie, your grandmother and daughter to safety. They’ve been in a safe house in California for the past seven months. Nobody is going to get to them, I promise.”
Seth took his first full breath since his dream on the balcony. He gave Nate a grateful smile.
“Why haven’t you called in your team? Why are you working all on your own?” Nate asked Seth.
“I’m not working on my own. There is one person at the DEA I trust, it is my boss’s boss. Somebody on my team is dirty, maybe a couple of someones. On my previous assignment, it went bad, two of my team died, it had to be someone on the inside gave us up. When I went to Greg on this, he wouldn’t believe it of his team. My gut tells me Greg isn’t in on it, but he’s blind. So I went over his head. The commander is watching the team, hopefully he’ll flush out the rotten eggs while I’m gone, but in the meantime he’s the only one who knows my cover, and he’s the only one I’m feeding information.”
“Who’s Greg?” Sierra asked.
“Greg’s the leader of my task force. I went to his boss, Lee Isaacson, he’s the Deputy Director of the DEA.”
“You took a pretty big chance your team wouldn’t find you with the magazine spread on your wedding. It’s how we discovered you.”
“Portia allowed it be published in only two magazines, and she ran it by me. One was a bridal, the other some kind of society magazine in the Miami Sunday paper. We were safe, like my team was going to be reading either one of those.” What’s more Seth still looked at those pictures and didn’t even recognize himself. How had they made him look like some kind of model?
“Wait, are you telling me Annie saw those?” Seth felt his blood run cold. In the entire year he had been with Annie he had never known her to pick up any kind of magazine like that. All of the pictures had been taken at the reception, Portia’s perfect outdoor garden reception. There were six damning pictures in the photo spread, culminating in the final picture of them kissing in the gazebo.
The only way he had been able to act so happy
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