Chapter Twenty-Nine
“Are you sure?” Erik asked, pointing his gun at the unopened top hatch, but he took a second to look at Emma’s hologram.
He would have preferred their new arrival to enter via the side airlock. That way, he and Jia could better contain them if they proved not to be who they were expecting.
Being too trusting in the middle of the ocean on a stolen conspiracy submarine was stupid. All it took was one quick grenade toss to make sure they had an agonizing last few minutes of life.
“The codes all match,” Emma replied, sounding annoyed. “It’s not impossible for someone to have intercepted the codes, but the other message elements are consistent with what I was expecting. I believe it is the visitor Alina told us to expect. The alterations were extreme compared to the orig
