Chapter Nineteen
Jia flexed her fingers inside the arms of the exoskeleton. The system diagnostics were streaming across her HUD, not that she expected anything to be wrong. She had already loaded extra ammo. Normally, she wouldn’t have bothered, given the maintenance crew they had, but she’d needed something to distract her.
“ETA fifteen minutes,” Emma reported. She was back to the white-suited gangster appearance, and she strolled in front of Erik’s and Jia’s exoskeletons with an uncharacteristic swagger. “This is a curious alliance, despite Agent Koval’s recommendations. I wasn’t confident you would go so far.”
“Curious. Sure.” Jia sucked in a breath. “I hope this doesn’t blow up in our faces.”
“It’ll be fine,” Erik commented. His exoskeleton took a step forward. “If she wanted to k
