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I’m on this detail because I volunteered for it, and I volunteered for it because I don’t kno iven nancy Dr Anchors and I discussed that privately

I didn’t want Bodie involved because I don’t want hinant before and had it end in a e, an event I still bla told repetitively by medical personnel that it hadn’t been my fault

But I know a part of it was due to the lifestyle I’d led at the time I know it down in my bones, so I have to tread very carefully with how I treat my body over the next few months I should keep stress to a minimum as well

I decide to check on the various hospitality rooms they have set up in the concert venue There’s one for the star of the show—an incredibly skinny girl of seventeen naeously s into a headset microphone, which, in my opinion, only Madonna can make cool There’s also one for the media and another for music industry VIPs There will be so the concert Our tea Bodie, who I’ve hardly seen since we arrived a few hours ago I have my perch set up, and I won’t ascend until the venue doors open

I check Miss March’s room first She’s in there with her own security as well as Hannah Miles Hannah is a retired Chicago cop who still needs to work to support her husband’s gaas She’s been with Jameson for four years now She nods at me when I pop my head in, and I return it

As I head toward the VIP rooe’s voices co out in there since they’ll both be in the stage wings during the concert, those two being the ones ould swoop Miss Miles off stage if so were to happen There’s a well-constructed plan that was developed between our teao to ensure her utmost safety

When I turn the corner, I halt when I hearof adrenaline that I’ve caught hiives way to relief as I realize he’s talking business

“Hart could pick any shooter off from anywhere in this colosseum from her perch,” Bodie says, and is that… pride in his voice over my abilities?

“I’d sure as fuck hope so,” Cage says with a snort “Her Olympic medals are decent credentials in my opinion”

My hand comes to my mouth, so I don’t snicker out loud while they talk about ainst the wall about three feet from the open door, and shamelessly listen

I don’t talk about h everyone at Jameson knows I competed It’s not that I’m not proud of my accoo These days, there’s better crops of young athletes coh that would smoke me all over the place

I was a winter athlete and co with rifle shooting I attended the Gaain when I enty-one I competed in the 15-k three silvers and a gold between the two, and then I was just done I was tired of the grueling training regirew up in the sport because it keptall over the world But then it hadn’t been fun any a cow, I retired at twenty-one

Of course, my skills with a rifle translated into this type of work A biathlete can hit a target less than two inches in diameter from a hundred and sixty feet while exhausted, out of breath, and laying prone on the snow-covered ground My current rifle is a little better, though The CheyTac M200 Intervention can hit a target from twenty-five hundred yards, so yeah… better toys with The Jameson Group

“She’s se says, and I lean toward the door to listen ive anyone in our group the time of day But I bet Kynan’s had her at least once They’ve known each other forever and are as thick as thieves”

This type of talk should bother me, but it doesn’t I know it happens I’ve developed a thick skin I can never let anyone know I’ve taken offense because, frankly, I’ in a world that’s heavily doerous situation with someone who lets e pig selves at times