“That’s too bad. He’ll have to wait. We have a deal.” Alisa turned and was walking quickly away. “I just have to finish up doing this one thing for him with Baldwin, and he’ll be ready to go after those students. He promised me.” But he hadn’t really promised her, she thought. Not until he was sure that she would keep her own word to him. And now this entire clearing was filled with elite, hard-core military types who could probably take down Masenak’s entire army in a single lethal raid. Some of the firepower she was seeing unloaded was both unique and positively deadly. There was nothing really to keep Korgan from using it to take over the operation and go after Masenak now that he was sure of Masenak’s location.

And all she could really count on was that he had been angry at the thought that she might have been abused as a young girl, and she was sure that anger carried over to the brutality now being shown by Masenak. But how would that stack up in comparison with the fact that Korgan had such a hatred for Masenak, he had been after him for years? Just because he wasn’t a monster didn’t mean he would give up a vendetta that meant that much to him.

“Wait.” Korgan’s hand was abruptly on her shoulder, spinning her around to face him. His lips were tight as he stared directly into her eyes. “One. I did promise you. I have no intention of breaking that promise. But I won’t have you ordering me or my men around. Two. I’ve been thinking, and I’ve decided that you need backup. You appear to know what you’re doing, so I’m not going to have Vogel designate a team to go in with you. They might get in your way. I’ll send Gilroy.”

“Indiana Jones?” she said scornfully. “No. We don’t need him. He’d get in our way.”

“That he won’t,” Korgan said with precision. “He’ll just make sure that you get out of that camp alive. We’ve fought together. I know what he can do, and that’s why I sent for him. I’m not going to lose our tethered goat because you want things all your own way.”

And he wasn’t going to back down, she realized in frustration. Why should he? Surrounded by all those elite soldiers and equipment, he had all the power; nothing could be more clear. “He’ll obey orders,” she said through set teeth. “He’ll keep up. And if he gets in my way, I’ll blow his head off.”