call someone, Cameron? You know how dangerous things are right now. If you’re caught, alone who knows what might happen. Or what they might be able to get out of you?”
That was Shane. Good old Shane. But it wasn’t as if he and I didn’t get along, because we do. At least as best as anyone could get along with Shane. It was just that well, in his opinion, I was the boss’s girlfriend, and I’m sure that Shane thought I was getting special treatment because of it.
“I’m sorry, Shane.”
“Okay let’s get started. We have a lot to get through tonight,” Noah told the group while his eyes met mine again for the moment. I knew that look. I loved that look. I knew exactly what it meant, even if he couldn’t say the words at that moment. Noah had missed me.
“Sorry, Noah,” I told him while hoping that the sound of my voice wasn’t betraying just how much that look got to me.
Noah knew exactly what I was feeling. It was all there in that little smile of his.
“Let’s get started, shall we? Matt has informed me that he’s received some very disturbing intelligence that indicates Elijah Jacobs is in D.C. Right now. What I want to know is how this happened, right under our noses and in our own backyard? Why didn’t any of us had any inkling that this was about to happen, until now?” Noah gave me a look that told me how much he wished that we were alone right now, while his shocking announcement was met with a flurry of astonished remarks, excuses, and questions directed at Noah who answered as many as he could before turning the floor over to Matt.
“When did he arrive, Noah? Excuse me for being the one to point this out, but isn’t that intelligence’s job? To find out these things before they happen?” Matt threw Shane a look that made his reaction to those words clear.
“Shane, this is all our responsibility. Not just Matt. One of us should have picked up on this before now,” Noah told him.
“Well, how do we know this isn’t just one of Matt’s snitches trying to steer us off course of what’s really going on.” Shane added hoping to get a rise out of Matt. As second in command, Matt was in charge when Noah was away on assignment. Shane had always resented this, because he believed Matt lacked the proper leadership qualities that Noah possessed.
“Like it or not Shane, it’s real alright. Every one of us has dropped the ball on this. There will be hell to pay with the big guy for that,” Matt said looking directly at Noah who only shook his head. What else could he say? He knew Adam as well as the rest of us. Adam hated looking bad in front of his superiors. This was certainly not going to be a shining moment for Adam or The Organization.
“It’s been confirmed. This isn’t a mistake.” Matt added for Shane’s benefit. “And, we’ve had surveillance on him for quite some time. He managed to give them the slip somehow. We picked him up again, right here in D.C. It’s definitely Elijah Jacobs. Somehow, he managed to penetrate what was supposed to be an unbreechable line of defense. Anyone want to venture a guess as to how that happened?”
“He had to have help getting in, Matt. We know most of his commanders come from former military trained specialists.” I said while trying not to show the team how the mention of Elijah Jacobs’ name rattled me. I was now terrified for my brother.
“Someone who knows all the tricks of the trade, I’d say. Someone who knew exactly what we’d be looking for. Someone who knew how to get beyond our security, and get him into the city undetected by our radars. Probably the same person that