The Billion Dollar Contract
ADRIAN’S POV
The FBI field office medical bay smelled sharply of antiseptic and stale coffee. Harsh fluorescent lights hummed above white walls, illuminating the sting of a needle pulling thread through the cut in my hairline.
"Hold still," the medic said.
I sat motionless on the exam table, staring at nothing. Across the room, Elena's arm was being bandaged by another medic. The bullet graze wasn't deep, but it needed cleaning. She caught my eye and managed a small, weary smile. We were alive. Somehow, impossibly, we were alive. Alexei Zakharov was dead. I had put three bullets in him and watched him fall, an image burned into my mind forever. I didn't feel guilty. I didn't feel much of any