Page 26 of The Lost Soldier
He cringed.
They needed to get inside and get his men before they died.
He tried to project his thoughts to Hunter, but it felt like they literally bounced off a wall.
“Willow?”
Nothing.
Hazel hadn’t seemed to develop telepathy, but maybe his other brother had.
“Brett? Can you hear me?”
“Barely. What’s going on?” Brett’s voice tickled his brain.
“Waiting for Scottie’s team to set up and Savanah to come back into the view.”
“Why didn’t you let her stay and you go with the team?”
“I didn’t want her alone in the cabin, for one. But also, she wasn’t looking good. She crossed bodies with Hunter, and it affected her negatively.”
“Yeah, touching organic material in a view can be painful, and it depletes your energy. But man, you can’t stay much longer without losing your ability to get back.”
“She should be here any minute.” Chad moved from the back of the house to the road. Scottie and his team were setting up camp only three miles south, dangerously close, but necessary. “Then we’ll switch places. It’s only a fifty-minute drive, and Scottie will brief me while we make the trip.”
The plan thus far had been to ambush two hours after dusk, before the first changing of the guards. Scottie had managed to pull in an Army A-Team that had been stationed just a few miles away waiting orders for another mission that had been nixed just an hour ago. They had twelve men, not including Scottie, and Chad and Savanah would pull out of the view the second the action started.
“Did she tell you that we all have the same birthdate? Hunter included. And he was adopted,” Brett said.
“Do any of us know the names of our birth parents?”
“My adoption, as was Hunter’s, was closed. I never thought to look.”
“Neither have I, but I guess we should.” Chad needed to change the subject. “How is Alexis?” Just as Chad asked, screams erupted from the house. He contemplated going in, but what could he do to stop them? All it would do was remind him how utterly helpless he was at this particular moment. Being able to remote view had its advantages.
But it also had some major drawbacks.
“The pain comes in waves. She can’t pinpoint the source. The last time someone remote healed with her, it was me. I was nearly dead. Had it not been for her, I wouldn’t be here.”
“I don’t know what to make of this barrier around Hunter, other than we’re surrounded by psychics. They have people looking for viewers, but so far I’ve been able to block them.”
“Stay out there much longer, and you won’t,” Brett said. “I’m in country, and enroute to Scottie, so call on me if you need me.”
“Will do.”
The waiting had always been the worst part of any mission, and ninety-five percent of his job had always been waiting.
And half of that time, they waited for nothing. Many missions were never executed, for whatever reason.
This was an op that not only had to be completed, but it had to go off without a hitch.
Shouts from the Koreans stole his attention. Men with automatic weapons ran yelling across the yard.
Chad took off toward the road. His heart racing. When he came to the end of the dirt road that led to the house, he came to a screeching halt.
“Savanah,” he projected, staring at her with her hands over her head, and a Korean operative pointing a semi-automatic weapon at her chest.
“What happened?”
