I stare at the photo for three seconds. That is the full amount of time I allow myself before I am out of the car, phone to my ear, already moving toward the safehouse door with the cold, operational focus that has kept me alive for fifteen years.
Reth picks up on the first ring. "I see it," he says, before I can speak. He is already at the safehouse, he came ahead, which is why he is alive right now. "Compound went hot eight minutes after you left. They were waiting for you to clear the gates."
"Casualties?"
A pause that costs me more than I show. "Two confirmed. Orvin and the night communications officer." A beat. "The others got out. Sera pulled everyone through the north access."
Orvin.... the same Orvin who opened the maintenance door for Reves men last night. He stayed. I don't k
