The Last Second (A Brit in the FBI #6)(108)



Nicholas tossed down the rest of his whisky, handed Mike his glass, watched her pour two more. She said, “I don’t want to stop drinking and I want to keep yelling at the CIA.”

They heard Nigel laugh outside the library.

Nicholas said, “I bet he’s off to call his father at home. Then Horne and my parents will discuss everything, down to the five G’s we pulled and your emptying your magazine into the motherboard to a nuke. Wait, they don’t know that yet.”

Mike held up her glass, gave him a silly grin. “I’ll drink to that.”

By the time Mike called her parents, she was very content with her world, and so mellow she could have danced the tango on her sprained ankle and not felt a thing. She gave them a finely edited rendition of what had happened, in a soft blurry voice. Her father didn’t believe her for a minute, probably knew she was drunk, and the Gorgeous Rebecca wanted to hear more about Jean-Pierre Broussard.

When she punched off, she sat back, took a sip of the incredible Talisker. “It’s like we’re an old married couple, having drinks at the end of the day. I’m all sort of relaxed, how about you?”

She was met with a light snore.

She moved over to him, lightly touched her fingers to the dent in his chin. “Do you think we’ll ever have a normal life?”

He took her hand in his, but before he could say anything, his cell rang. He fumbled it out of his pocket, looked down at the name, and groaned. “I need to take this,” he said, and drank down the rest of the whisky in his glass. “Mike, I don’t want to be alone for this. I’m turning on the speaker. Hello, sir, how was the retreat?”



Sky News

“In breaking news today, we’ve learned the president and CEO of Galactus Space Technologies Dr. Nevaeh Patel, one of the first female astronauts to stay in space for more than six months, has been arrested on charges of treason and terrorism in the failed attempt to set off a nuclear bomb in space. NASA reported such an explosion would have affected large portions of the Asian peninsula, southern Russia, and the Middle East, possibly devastating the electrical grids and taking out the International Space Station. Authorities report the terrorist attack was stopped by the combined efforts of American FBI and CIA agents in cooperation with the governments of France, Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Singapore. We will have more on this story as facts are released.

“More news from the space world: Scientists in Canada today reported the very first contact from their new twelve-billion-pound telescope, a low-frequency wave radio signal from deep in outer space. The signal, known as a fast radio burst, lasted only milliseconds, but was caught by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment telescope, which is designed to search the depths of outer space for contact from alien civilizations. Scientists say a fast radio burst has only occurred a handful of times before. They believe this signal is exceptionally powerful, coming from deep in outer space, and will be monitoring the telescope for more.

“Stay tuned for more from Sky News on this busy news day.”

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