Chapter 786

• Zain sat at the desk, leaning close to the screen. It was—two days, he thought, since that call from Jesse. He couldn’t be sure. He’d barely slept since the king had been taken. With good reason, he was too busy checking and rechecking his backup plans. He’d even come up with a few new ones—that he hoped he’d never need.
• If anyone knew he watched the ops and listened in on the communications between the teams, he’d probably be a janitor for the rest of his life. He suspected Illias knew. It was a secure link the king had access to, so of course, he knew. He wasn’t going to out any of his secrets. That was one thing Zain knew without a doubt. He could have been on one of these teams, he thought. He was good with a gun and could walk so quietly that no one would hear him.
• His heart felt like it stopped altogether as he stared at the screen. It was him. How?