Page 217 of Broken Oath

For the first time since seeing Wade’s current status, Sarah smiled.

Small.

Fragile.

Real.

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ROOK

The monitor glowed in the darkness.

W. PARKER — ACTIVE

The words remained at the center of the operations room.

Everyone understood what they meant now.

Wade Parker had survived his team’s disappearance.

He had been alive eleven days earlier.

And someone was holding him inside a black-site network controlled by Warden.

Sniper pointed toward the screen.

“Question.”

Nobody looked at him.

He continued anyway.

“Why keep Wade alive for five years?”

That got everyone’s attention.

It was the right question.

Men like Marcus Lane didn’t preserve loose ends.

They erased them.

Yet Wade and at least three members of his team had survived their operation.

Fathom opened another series of records.

“I don’t think the same people controlled him for all five years.”

The room turned toward him.

“What do you mean?” Sarah asked.

Fathom displayed the transfer history.

“They moved him.”

A record appeared.