Page 184 of Broken Oath

“Fathom, contact the cannery.”

Static answered.

Then silence.

Fathom tried again.

“No response.”

Rook looked toward his team.

“Reef, Falcon, with me. Cutter, secure the prisoners and the harbor. Sniper, Maverick, protect headquarters. Cobra⁠—”

Cobra picked up his equipment bag.

“Already ready.”

Rook looked at Sarah.

“You’re staying here.”

“No.”

“Sarah.”

“The evidence on that ship is the reason they want me dead.”

Another alarm sounded from the warehouse.

Fathom’s voice filled every radio.

“Explosion at the cannery inlet.”

A dull flash lit the sky beyond the mountains.

Seconds later, thunder rolled across the harbor.

Rook stared toward the glow.

The attackers hadn’t come only for Sarah.

They had come to erase the evidence too.

The war had just changed again.

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Fire glowed beyond the mountains.

A dark column of smoke climbed into the snow-filled sky above the abandoned cannery inlet.

Rook ran toward the equipment bay.

“Reef and Falcon with me. Cobra, get anything we need for fire suppression and structural entry.”

Cobra grabbed two equipment cases.