SEAL Team 13 (SEAL Team 13 series) (32 page)

“This is still a bad idea.…You know that, right?”

Masters shrugged. “I don’t give a damn.”

Alex sighed. “You need to let this go.…It’s not going to end well for you.”

“I’m not going to let anything go, Alex,” Masters said. “That squid took my team and my career. As far as I’m concerned, I’m in all the way until it’s dead or I am.”

Alex Norton didn’t say anything as they walked away, but he knew which ending it was going to be. The Kraken had existed for as long as men had gone to sea, presumably far longer. No one had ever gotten close to killing it before, and no one had ever even seen the damned thing aside from its tentacles.

Harold Masters wasn’t going to be the first, no matter how badly he wanted it.

The world just didn’t work that way.

EPILOGUE

WASHINGTON, DC

Karson handed a file to his secretary. “File this.”

“Yes, sir,” she said, taking the file as he walked into his inner office. “How was your day, sir?”

“Long,” he told her, closing the door behind him.

The woman eyed the door for a long moment before taking the file and walked over to the nearest cabinet. She checked over her shoulder again, then flipped the folder open quietly.

A few minutes later she closed down her computer and pushed the intercom button. “I’m taking my coffee break, sir.”

“Understood, thank you for telling me.”

She walked outside, heading down the street to a nearby café. After getting her order she took a seat by the window. Someone joined her within seconds.

“You have something?”

She nodded. “The navy has cleared the activation of a new SOCOM unit for dealing with what they call
incidents
.”

“So they are more deeply involved that we’d hoped?”

“Yes. The unit was active last week,” she said, glancing around. “In Barrow.”

The man swore. “That was from across the veil?”

“Apparently.”

“Find out what happened. The Clans need to know.”

She nodded. “I will.”

He sighed. “What is this new unit called?”

“SEAL Team Thirteen.”

Evan Currie is the bestselling author of the Odyssey One series, the Warrior’s Wings series, and more. Although his postsecondary education was in computer sciences, and he has worked in the local lobster industry steadily over the last decade, writing has always been his true passion. Currie himself says it best: “It’s what I do for fun and to relax. There’s not much I can imagine better than being a storyteller.”