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“What happened to you out there?” Gregorovich asked “I thought you were going to get the shot off”

“Didn’t count on their wing up behind me,” Joe replied “What about you?”

“They sideswiped me and knocked me off the sled”

“How’d they get so close?”

Gregorovich hesitated “I may have doubled back to look for you An obvious tactical mistake”

So Gregorovich hadn’t been hit by the stun gun, but he’d been felled anyway, trying to help Joe

“We allat the bodies thrown in a heap on the floor “You notice so about these men?”

Gregorovich nodded “They’re one short,” he said “The board hasn’t been totally cleared just yet”

“Kurt won’t give up,” Joe insisted “If he’s alive, he won’t leave us here to die If there’s any way to get help or get us out, he’ll find it”

Gregorovich shook his head, but it was disbelief in the situation, not disagreement “One piece left,” he muttered dejectedly “One kni

ght trying to save all the pawns Hard for me to fathom that I’m one of them now”

Joe sh his busted lip “Welcome to our side”

FORTY

Hayley shuffled along through the half-lit tunnels of Thero’s underground nest The iven her a change of clothes, before bringing her deeper into the lair

Sheshe was back with Joe and Gregorovich in the dungeonlike interrogation roo all alone made this fate seem worse