Identity Zero novel · Chapter 18 of 32
Chapter 18: The Scar
The side door banged open behind them.
Sallow came through it with four guards, rifles up.
His nose was taped white across the middle, and both his eyes had gone purple.
He smiled anyway.
"Hands, Commander," he said. "And put the cadet down."
Jesse didn't put Ollie down.
Gideon didn't raise his hands.
He stood beside Jesse and looked up at the catwalk, at the rifle, at the man behind it.
"Luke," he said quietly.
Luke didn't answer.
The muzzle didn't move.
"You two know each other, of course." Gorham leaned on the rail with his mug.
"Ghost Lead, do you know whose signature is on your death report?" He nodded down at Gideon. "His."
Luke's shoulders went tight behind the scope.
"He put you in the river on paper," Gorham said. "Now he's come to rob me."
"I'd like him put down, please," Gorham said. "Center mass. We'll call it a training accident. We're very good at those."
Luke's cheek was against the stock.
Jesse watched his brother's finger move from the trigger guard to the trigger.
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