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Back The Asset
Chapters (86)
  1. Foreword
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5
  7. 6
  8. 7
  9. 8
  10. 9
  11. 10
  12. 11
  13. 12
  14. 13
  15. 14
  16. 15
  17. 16
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  19. 18
  20. 19
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  29. 28
  30. 29
  31. 30
  32. 31
  33. 32
  34. 33
  35. 34
  36. 35
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  38. 37
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  40. 39
  41. 40
  42. 41
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  51. 50
  52. 51
  53. 52
  54. 53
  55. 54
  56. 55
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  84. 83
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  86. Afterword

Lance wasn’t sure what to say to her. The apartment was a write off now as far as Roth was concerned. There was still some ammo in there and the local ID, but nothing that would give away CIA involvement if she called the police. And in any case, he doubted she’d even do that much.

“I’m back,” Lance said, hauling his bags onto his shoulder.

“What were you doing in there?”

“I don’t think you want to get involved,” Lance said.

“I have a child in here,” the woman said.

“You’re not in any danger,” Lance said. “Just go back inside and forget about me.”

She nodded and shut the door.

It was hard work carrying eighty pounds of equipment down all those stairs and by the time he got to the ground floor he was breathless.

He made sure the woman hadn’t followed him but as he made his way back to the car, he knew there was a chance she was watching him. He would have to switch vehicles.

He loaded the equipment into the trunk of the car and drove back to the airport. There, he returned the vehicle to Hertz and went to the desk of a local company that offered premium vehicles.

“I want something fast,” he said, putting a fresh set of ID on the counter.

“What’s your budget?” the girl said.

“What have you got?”

“The best I can give you right now is a BMW 5 series.”

“What color is it?”

“Black.”

“That would be perfect,” Lance said.

54

“Stay down,” Sofia hissed.

Olga ducked out of view, just in time to avoid being seen by a passing army jeep.

The two women had been hiding out in a convenience store a few blocks from the hospital. They’d been there since the airstrike, when they’d been able to escape the hospital grounds during the chaos that followed the explosion.

Sofia had been shot, and Olga practically had to carry her. The windows of the surrounding buildings had all been blown out and Olga chose the first place to hide she could find. It was a small store, and the entire front window had been shattered during the impact.

The shop was already deserted. The army had evacuated the entire district when they began spraying the streets with chlorine. It explained why the government had been able to claim the explosion at the hospital had been a gas leak without anyone questioning it.