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I ended the call and switched back to comms. “Abort mission.”
“What? I’m about to go in,” Libby hissed.
“Negative. We’ve got a problem.”
2
NICHOLAS
“Tate! Hey, Tate!” Fox shouted behind me. He’d been chasing me around the OPS building for the past two weeks, trying to get me to go on a double date with him.
I ignored him and kept walking. The last thing I wanted was to be set up with anyone. I rounded the corner and ran for the end of the hallway, hoping I could lose him in the tunnels. The underground building was filled with passages that would confuse the hell out even the people who built this silo.
I was just about to round another corner when he popped out in front of me with a grin on his face. “Gotcha! Man, it was like you were trying to lose me.”
“Yeah, how about that,” I muttered.
“But you can’t. I know this place like the back of my hand.”
“That’s a shame.”
“No, it’s really not,” he said, acting like he was confused.
He couldn’t pull this shit with me. I worked with him long enough to know that he liked it when people thought he was stupid. It fed into his persona.
“I have someplace to be.”
“Yeah, the garage. I heard you telling Cash, but you’re going the wrong way.”
“I was taking the long way.”
He tossed his head back and laughed. “Man, you crack me up.”
There was absolutely nothing funny about what I said, but this was typical Fox. I thought after I was discharged from the military that I could live a normal life. I had a good job and only talked to him when I absolutely had to. And then he changed my world with one phone call. The darkness he fed off had seeped into me on a daily basis since my return. I tried to ignore it, but he pulled it out of me no matter how hard I tried to resist.
I shoved past him and kept walking, hearing his footsteps slap the concrete behind me. “Fox, I can go to the garage on my own.”
“Oh, I know. I’m just waiting for you to say yes to the blind date I have set up.”
“No.”
“Why not? She’s great.”
“You actually know her?”
“Yes.”
“Fox, give me one good reason I would want to go out with this woman.”
“Well, she’s depressing as hell. She thinks the world is going to end at any moment. Although, I have to agree with some of the things she says.”
I stopped and spun around. “Lee? The woman Brock was sleeping with?”
“How did you know?” he grinned.
“Not happening.”
“Why not?”
