Ghostwalker 07 - Murder Game

he's telling us , he sent silently to Kadan.

    "We were locked in cages," Kadan said, "in Whitney's research center. We were the men Lily helped escape."

    "Her father wanted her to help them escape. He told me he maneuvered her into the position with the hope that she could do what he couldn't," Don said hastily. "For all of his sins, he wanted all of the soldiers he'd worked on to survive and serve their country."

    "Did he know who wanted i
    h m dead?" Kadan asked.

    "Someone very high up in the food chain. Whoever it is works in the White House and Whitney couldn't touch him. Fortunately, Peter has a lot of friends who covered for him and helped him carry on his work…"

    "His breeding program," Kadan said. "The one he wants Tansy to participate in."

    Don shook his head. "He doesn't want any harm to come to her. I know that. When he got word that his enemy was forming a coalition to wipe out his soldiers, e h insisted I
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    hire Fredrickson to guard Tansy. Someone got to Fredrickson."

    "Fredrickson worked for Whitney," Kadan pointed out. "No matter how you spin th s i ,
    you aren't going to make Whitney into a saint just so you can condone the fact that you let him get away with experimenting on children. He experimented on your own child, and kept it up as she grew. You allowed it. And you hired Fredrickson at his command.
    His orders were to take Tansy if she ever discovered what was going on. She asked you the wrong question and Fredrickson did his job. He was going to take her to Whitney."

    "I know he's a bastard, but he would have kept her safe."

    "He would have forced her to have sex with a man she didn't want to have sex with, just like he forced that little teenage girl to have sex with you." Kadan remained absolutely still, a statue carved in stone. Even his stillness seemed a threat.

    Don's face crumbled. "Damn you, you're leaving me with nothing."

    "You would have given her up." Kadan's voice was as cold as ice.

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    K dan , Ryland warned softly, clearly fearing what his friend might do.

    Kadan didn't know himself. The thought of Don Meadows even contemplating turning his daughter over to a man like Whitney after he'd seen the experiments, the rape of a teenage girl, his wife hit by Fredrickson…

    "All for what?" Kadan asked softly. "To keep your image and your money, your cushy little life. You would have traded Tansy into a lifetime of slavery."

    "No! Damn you, no!" Don denied the accusation. "I wanted her safe from the coalition.
    They're much stronger. They've established themselves and are trying to kill every soldier and woman known to have been enhanced."

    "And you know this how?" Kadan's voice was still cold, still remote, as if the jury was still out on whether or not he was going to reach across the bed and rip out Don's throat.

    "Whitney has friends who tip him off, and he told me Tansy needed to be in a safe house. We had a terrible fight about it. I told him I could protect my daughter."

    "That's when you hired the mercs."

    Don scowled. "Fredrickson found Watson for me, and they hired men who could keep her safe."

    "They were Whitney's men. When Tansy asked the wrong question, they did as Whitney ordered them. They were to secure her immediately and bring her to them. They were willing to torture your wife to get her there."
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    "Fredrickson told us there was a hit out on her." Don looked Kadan straight in the eye.
    "He said an assassin was sent to kill her."

    "Two men showed up in the mountains. I thought they were after me. How would anyone know Tansy was enhanced?"

    "She worked with the police and the FBI solving serial murders. There's been a series of murders that a reporter speculated were all connected, and her name was brought up. We didn't tell her because we didn't want to upset her, but the reporter knew she was a photographer and suggested she was in the Sierras. He implied she was helping the FBI with the murders. The article even gave a report about her being hospitalized and that she i
    m ght taint the evidence."

    A chill went through Kadan's body. If someone had dug up information on Tansy and reported it, the elite tracker she had accidently run across would have her identity. He took a deep breath.