Intercepted Risk (Aegis Group Task Force #5) - Sidney Bristol Page 0,4
of someone who calls themselves Skilton. I asked each of our other suspects in custody and while they didn’t have a lot to say, they each reacted to the name. Which means Skilton is someone they all have in common. I want Skilton. If anyone hears or even thinks they have something, bring it to me. Understand?”
Harper perked up. “So you’re saying this is all connected? The arms dealer? The forger? The rogue SEALs? The hacker?” He ticked off each operation they’d run the last few months.
Zora’s gaze sliced toward Harper. “I’m saying they have a person in common.” Her tone so frosty Logan almost shivered.
It was connected.
Logan grit his teeth.
It was frustrating to be kept in the dark like this, but he’d waged this war with Zora long enough to know he wouldn’t be able to pull an ounce of intel out of her if she didn’t want to give it up. The woman had an iron will. There was no budging her.
“Moving on,” Logan said over the mutters arising from the others.
Zora didn’t miss a beat. She launched into the rest of it. “Our backdoor into the hacker Valentino’s server is still active. That undercover operation was a massive success. Logan? I hope you’ll pass along the praise?”
Logan nodded despite feeling daggers coming at him from Kelsey.
She was still sore about the last job they’d done hunting down a hacker’s servers. It had been an undercover thing, which normally was what Kelsey did. She was an FBI undercover agent, after all. But this one had been more sensitive and needed a specific kind of undercover that didn’t fit her. Kelsey hadn’t liked being passed over for the job, and she blamed him for it.
He’d do it all over again, even knowing how it had all ended.
The job had been dangerous and their undercover team had barely escaped with their lives. Technically, one of the two was listed as dead, but Logan had his doubts. It seemed more likely those two were alive and tucked away somewhere together, if he had to guess.
Deep down, Logan’s hesitance about sending Kelsey in had boiled down to one thing.
He didn’t want to risk her.
It was selfish and unreasonable, but it was how he felt. The woman had gotten under his skin from the very beginning, and he was done denying the fact to himself. When it came to Kelsey, Logan was going to be unreasonable.
“We have learned from Valentino’s extensive network feeding the server that a coordinated attack against an American Senator is eminent. This is the second thing we’ve been working on and what our focus will be for the foreseeable future. We don’t know how to drag Skilton out into the open, so while we work on that, we need to also protect this senator. We don’t know why or when, but we know who.” Zora tapped the screen of her tablet and held it up to show the room. “It just so happens that this plan has been in the works for a while. Here is a list of names given to Obran for processing.”
The forger.
Their second operation.
Logan glanced right toward Felecia. Obran was her father. The man had kept her locked up for most of her life, helping him forge identities and documents. Logan had wanted to warn her ahead of time about this connection, but Zora had wanted to keep everything quiet until now.
Logan watched Felecia take a big bite of a donut. She didn’t show any hint of emotion at the mention of her father.
He glanced at Evan, who was looking at his wife with some concern. Evan’s gaze slid right and locked with Logan’s. He shrugged and Evan nodded.
Felecia had grown up in a locked box. She didn’t always react to things as expected. Today Logan was glad for it.
Zora kept going, paying no heed to the potential bomb she’d lobbed at them. “The target, Senator John Dixon, is filling vacancies in his staff tomorrow and Wednesday. Aegis Group team? You are all applying to be part of Senator Dixon’s security detail. Kelsey? I want you applying, too. But focus on the office positions. I’d rather our team get the jobs on your own merit rather than me placing you on the senator’s staff. We don’t know why these people are targeting him, and until we figure that out, we’re being cautious. Overly cautious. We don’t know what the senator is into or why he’s of interest to them. Understood?”