Page 119 of Healing Conviction

Without answering, she turned the TV back on. Snake, Devil, Hawk, and Jaybird all appeared back on the screen, taking it up in thirds with a blank square where Officer Brown was.

“There’s been a development,” Snake began. “Hawk and I thought it was best if we waited to share with everyone until it was just our team—Nora, obviously at this point you count.”

She rolled her eyes. “Obviously. What’s going on?”

Snake blew out a breath. “I haven’t looked at it. But it’s a video from an encrypted email account. The subject line said we needed to watch it together.”

“What if it’s a trap?” Jaybird asked.

“I don’t know what kind of trap it could entail,” Snake replied. “I ran all the necessary ransomware checks, but other than that, I left it alone. I didn’t want to screw anything up in case we should in fact watch it together.”

Hawk nodded. “Any objections to playing the video now?”

No one objected, and Hawk nodded for Snake to continue. When the dark video filled the fourth quadrant of the screen, Draco involuntarily stepped toward the screen as a man with a familiar build walked into the frame.

The man lifted his face, his mouth an uncharacteristically grim line.

A chorus of cursing from his teammates filled the speakers.

Nora’s breath hitched. “Is that—”

“My name is Chief Warrant Officer Felix Santori. The BlackStone Securities team knows me by my call sign, Phoenix.” His hard eyes focused directly into the camera. “I have a message from the general.”