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Rios and Lim joined Pope in the Humvee. They couldn’t be there when the air ambulance arrived. It was too much to explain. Too incriminating, considering a few miles back was a military base full of fallen soldiers.
Driver felt sure the Viper Nine assault team would have cut the CCTV feeds. Or at least she hoped so, her focus drawn to the muggy skies over the vast stretch of lake where a pinprick appeared on the far horizon.
The chop of the rotors announced its arrival before the bright-red air ambulance came into view.
It circled overhead, blowing Driver’s hair into her face. The helicopter lowered with care in the middle of the road as police cars arrived on the scene to block traffic either side of the bridge.
Wells crouched low to Baptiste, his broad back acting as a buffer to
