Page 2 of Beta Team-The Saviors: Part two
“The last I checked, the Saviors don’t go around drugging and kidnapping women.”
“Trust me, Kira. What I did is nothing compared to what would have happened if the Mossad agents got ahold of you.”
My heart rate spikes. “Mossad?”
“You have no idea what you’re mixed up in, do you?”
“All I care about right now is saving my guys.”
“We will. But we can’t do it with guns blazing. Ari’s locked up in a high security military prison, and I don’t have the manpower here. I need the Saviors’ cooperation.”
“How the hell do you plan on getting that? They aren’t going to trust you.”
“That’s where you come in.” Professor North, or Tivon, turns toward the computer. He pulls up a video feed, and I gasp,covering my mouth. Ari is sitting in the corner of a small concrete cell, his head leaning against the wall. His face is a bruised, bloody mess, and he’s in shackles. “I know exactly where he’s at.”
“What about Jason?”
Tivon clicks to another feed, and tears fill my eyes. Jason is on a dirty mattress, and he’s entirely too still. “He’s the one you need to worry about. With his heart condition and whatever they dosed him with, he doesn’t have long.”
“How do you know all this?”
“It’s my job to know. I’m going to give you the short version.” Tivon splits the screen so we can watch Ari and Jason, then turns back to face me. “Ari’s father is the director of Mossad, and he wants him back to take over. He’ll stop at nothing to get what he wants. My team is in place to make sure that doesn’t happen.”
“Why?”
I watch Tivon shut down. “That doesn’t matter. I need you to explain to Axel that he needs to trust me.”
“I don’t even trust you. You’ve been lying to me for months.”
“I did what I had to do.”
“You tried to run us off the road, and you trashed Jason’s apartment!”
Tivon’s brows furrow, and he looks genuinely confused. “I’d never do that.”
A thought hits me like a ton of bricks, and I stand up. “Did you shoot Keon?”
When Tivon grimaces, that’s all the answer that I need. “I didn’t mean to. I was trying to scare them off, because Mossad agents were on their way. One of them hit me from behind, and my shot went wide.”
“He could have died!” I go to adjust my beanie out of habit, and suck in a breath when I realize it’s not there. I reach into my back pocket where I tucked it in, only to come up empty. It musthave fallen out when they grabbed me. To my surprise, Tivon reaches into his vest pocket and pulls it out, handing it to me. I quickly put it on, using it as armor.
“One of my guys grabbed it when it fell.”
“Thanks,” I reply begrudgingly.
“Look, I know you have no reason to trust me, but time is running out. They’ll try to beat Aryeh into submission. When that doesn’t work, they’ll take him by force, and we both know Aryeh isn’t going to go down easy. If that happens, they will leave Jason there to die.”
“How do you know about Ari?”
“That falls into the category of ‘it doesn’t matter’ right now.”
Tivon seems like he has knowledge of Ari, and Ari was convinced he knew Professor North. This just confirms it, buthow? I don’t even have to question the many aliases becauseifthey’re like the Saviors, that comes with the job. Tyler told me one time that he was Todd, a mild mannered accountant working for a drug lord. I’d laughed so hard at that story that I’d cried. I sink back into the chair. “What do I have to do?”
“As soon as they have the rest of your guys clear, I’m going to put you into contact with Axel.”
“Why can’t you just tell them where they are?”
“I know who we’re up against. I trained with them. I have knowledge that I don’t have time to explain.”
