Chapter Forty-Two
Alina kept her hands folded tightly in front of her. She sat at a long table with enough high-ranking brass that if this room were taken out, it would seriously wound the entire UTC. She didn’t care about the soldiers outside with rifles or the nearby exoskeleton squads. During wartime, high-ranking people shouldn’t make themselves easy targets. Considering half the people in there were military, they knew better.
She thought it was idiotic for them to hold this meeting in person, given all the obviously Core-initiated assassinations going on. As operational head of the Anti-Core Task Force, something she hadn’t bothered to share with Erik and Jia, she’d been ordered to attend the meeting and brief everyone on the current situation.
She coughed into her fist. “As I was
