Outcast (SEAL Team: Disavowed Book 2) Read Online Free PDF

Knock on the glass when you’re done.”
    Never had she wished more for tinted windows.
    Finished, she had no choice but to dump it in the snow, which was seriously uncool. She buried it, but still felt awful.
    A few minutes later, once they were both back inside, Jasper asked, “Want the good news? Or the bad, or the really bad?”
    She groaned. “After yesterday, I’m kind of at my bad news max.”
    “Ditto.” He leaned in for another kiss she should have pushed away from, but couldn’t. She needed him—his strength. Just for a little while. Then she’d let him go. “But you need to know where things stand. I climbed to the top of the rock pile we ran into, and got the GPS to pick up a signal. As the crow flies, we’re a couple hundred miles from McMurdo. No biggee if the crash hadn’t killed the engine.”
    “I’m assuming you couldn’t see in the whiteout?”
    “True, but still . . .” He hardened his jaw. “I’ve landed us in a helluva jam.”
    “Stop. If it weren’t for you, we probably wouldn’t even be alive. I still can’t believe that for all these years, a monster has been lurking inside Leo. How could he have killed so many people? And for what? There’s no treasure. The whole idea is silly. Which makes what he did all the more senseless.” Needing comfort, she fished out the locket she’d worn since her father gave it to her on her twelfth birthday. Just rubbing the family tree etching brought her strength. As did touching the amethyst birthstone at the tree’s roots. “And where are my father and Dane? Did Leo hurt them, too?”
    “Wish I knew.” He sat beside her, and she rested her head against his shoulder. Even through bulky winter gear, her body sang to be near him. At the moment, the song was tragic but welcome all the same. “Back to our options, I’m no MacGyver when it comes to engine repairs, but now that the wind’s died down enough for me to see my hand in front of my face, I’ll do my damnedest to get this thing back on a flat angle and running. We’d have warmth and plenty of gear—maybe even enough fuel. But the real kicker is all of this . . .” He gestured out the window toward a sea of endless white punctuated by imposing Mount Erebus. “If we have such great visibility, so does Leo. I hope he was lying about his sub and having even more manpower. If he wasn’t, that means he could already be looking for us, and in this red cat, we’ll be an easy target to find. I’d say we could at least monitor his movements with our friends’ radio, but it’s dead.”
    “So what do we do? Set out on foot? Try making it back to our station for snowmobiles?”
    “That’s an option. But what if Crazy Leo did fabricate the whole sub thing and he’s really just hanging out in his lab, waiting for his next victims?”
    She sighed.
    “On the flip side,” Jasper said, “I have a hard time buying the fact that Leo doesn’t have some basis for launching his treasure hunt. There’s thousands of dollars in gear and weapons in this vehicle alone. There’s no telling what else he may have. A guy doesn’t stock up like this on a lark, you know? Think, Eden. Has your dad or this Dane guy you’ve been talking about ever even hinted at there being more going on down here than standard research?”
    Rubbing her temples, she said, “Honestly, all of their work is so complex. When they talk about it, I glaze over. I know Dad’s trying to cure cancer, and he’s had promising leads, but—”
    “Didn’t your mom die of ovarian cancer?”
    Eden nodded.
    “So up until her death, he was driven by a desire to save her?”
    “I guess so.”
    “This is a longshot, but could this treasure be a pharmaceutical thing? There’s huge money in drugs. What if your dad and Dane discovered a formula or new bio-organism that’s a scientific game changer and Leo wants it?”
    “They were partners. They worked together for years. My father isn’t a selfish man. Every dime he’s ever