CHAPTER 12
REVELATIONS
“You have 10 seconds to start telling me what this is all about, ma’am, and don’t lie to me. I’ll know it if you do.”
Luke Ellis’ voice made it clear his patience with the mystery woman he’d saved not all that long ago had ended. The former Delta Force operator gave the woman a look he used to reserve only for the jihadist hard cases he’d helped capture and then interrogate.
The woman returned his gaze with one of her own. She was clearly trying to come to a decision about what to do.
Luke knew he couldn’t give her the time to formulate another lie or to dissemble in any way.
“Ten,” he said.
“I don’t-“
Ellis’ voice – now as hard-edged and as razor-sharp as a samurai sword -- cut her off. “Nine.”
“Believe me, Mister Ellis-“
“Eight.”
Ellis looked behind him
