And I finished with Spook's latest alert about Estrada's possible arrival in this hemisphere.She was silent for a long time when I'd finished. Then sh... walked over to put her arms around me. "You should have told me before, Jackie," she said gently. "I don't like it that you've been carrying this around all by yourself. It's not right." I didn't want—" I started."I know, to worry me," she cut me off. "But didn't you expect him to come after you?" No, I really didn't." Men like him never give. George closed his eyes, waiting for the inevitable bang that would signify the end of his life.A big bang echoed throughout the warehouse, not from Tony's gun but the shutters over the warehouse garaged door. The gangster spun around to see a JCB draw thirty feet away and a handful of armed policemen move in behind it. Tony fired towards the onrushing coppers, hitting one of them, before running away from the Police and towards the back of the warehouse.He reached the metal stairs to go up to. She had also realised Zarka didn’t really need her to fly the ship. She was obviously capable of doing it herself, since she was apparently, also the ship.That was an explanation, which Raina wanted in more detail. Zarka was obviously humanoid. She looked little different to any other human female except for the lack of a belly button and being bloody gorgeous. Going by the boy’s reactions to her, she was seriously ramping up their libidos.When they sat down to eat, they got Zarka to explain. I think there might be a lightning bolt on it.‘‘Geez! Those are the Army Rangers. They’re a specialty airborne unit, under a different command organization than Delta Force.‘‘Who could’ve followed us here?‘ Betty asked as the others gathered to converse. ‘Do you think the Governor spoke to someone, bringing us here to spring a trap?‘‘If that was his intent, they would have taken us prisoner in the helicopter before we left, ‘ Gary said.‘For someone to call in two specialty units in this short.