INVISIBLE POWER BOOK TWO: ALEX NOZIAK (INVISIBLE RECRUITS) Read Online Free PDF

something.”
    “I can help,” Mandy said, looking resigned. “I speak French.”
    We all glanced at her. Chiquita had hidden depths. Who knew?
    “What about me?” Kelly piped up. “Once I get my sight back I should be able to do something.”
    “We need a coordinator. Someone we can all report to who will also be able to track all of us so no one runs into another Vaverek ambush.”
    “Playground monitor?” she replied with a small smile.
    “Call it what you want, we still need you.” Leave it to Vaughn to make a crap job sound like the lynchpin position. “We’re stronger as a team. Less risky for all of us.”
    “I agree,” Stone added, looking straight at me. “Now’s the time to use what we have together. No individual heroics.”
    He looked at me in particular but waited until each of us nodded in assent. My nod must have been the least impressive, and Stone’s frown indicated he’d noticed. But he said nothing.
    “I’ll go back to the Campanile then.” Kelly’s tone saying she’d make the best of being stuck at the cheap hotel we were staying at while the rest of us went hunting.
    Stone threw a kibosh into my plans by clearly announcing, “Alex, you head out with Mandy and Jaylene. There’s safety in numbers.”
    Yeah, right, as if I didn’t know what he really wanted—them to keep an eye on me. I guess I should have been grateful that he didn’t pull me off the team right then and there. On the other hand, knowing Stone as I’d come to know him over the last few weeks, I bet he was giving me just enough rope to hang myself.
    Then he added, “Just in case your warlock was the one who set us up here, I want zero contact with him. By anyone.”
    Now Stone was a mind-reader? I plastered a yeah-okay smile on my face that didn’t mean squat because I didn’t trust my voice to sound like I was really going to do what he just ordered me to do.
    It hadn’t been that long since I’d become an IR team member and I was actually finding that I liked having these strong, focused women at my side. So ditching them now wasn’t an easy step, but I felt it was a necessary step toward getting what I needed. And getting that meant going through Bran.
    If I didn’t take this chance to follow up on the one lead I had, who knew if I’d get another opportunity to head out on my own. Not that Mandy and Jaylene knew that was my plan, but they would.
    First step, shake their company. Second step, find Bran and force him to see me. Third step, save my brother by doing the first two steps.
    I could make this work.
    I had to.

 
    CHAPTER 9
     
    Delmore Vaverek stood at his balcony window in the 7th arrondissement glancing at the slate roofs across the street, the glaring white stone walls brightened by the high noon sun, listening to the childish shouts from the gardens of Champs de Mars nearby. But his attention was totally on what he’d just seen.
    Was this the reason he’d been sent to acquire this witch? He’d heard she was powerful but merde , what he’d seen was not supposed to be able to happen. Or was what occurred outside his pied-à-terre the result of something else? What did the Americans call it? A sleight of hand. A scam.
    Could this be what he’d been waiting to appear at last?
    His cell phone rang and while he was inclined to ignore it, one look at the number had him answering before the end of the second ring.
    “Vaverek speaking.”
    “So you survived your little fray?” The Druid on the other end of the line laughed his nasty, rasping laugh. “You may thank me now.”
    “I survived but so did all the members of this upstart agency. The same individuals you said would be easy to eliminate.”
    The sudden silence on the other end told Vaverek he’d earned the druid’s attention. “And your people?”
    “I would have thought you’d have heard by now.” Vaverek wanted to share his own laugh but this man was dangerous, too dangerous to taunt lightly. “They are dead.”
    “All