Could be bad, could be good. It formed in my mind from experience. All from what I’d witnessed of the past.
“Don’t say anything,” I said to Wes quickly.
His eyes snapped wider at me. “What do you mean? We keep this quiet?”
“Yes. We keep this quiet and as far as we know we’re still looking for the right vault.”
“Xander…”
I looked over the men. “They came in at the same time we heard the beeping noise. It wouldn’t have been enough time to pass the message on. Right now we’re the only people who know the location of the prints.”
“Are you seriously saying to keep this from Ethan?”
I nodded. “It’s safer that way. If they’re watching us here, they’re watching us at the site too,everywhere. We do this our way.”
Our way. Wes and me.
That meant trying to figure out a way to get everything without anyone knowing. That included Ethan. The fewer people who knew the better.
It was safer.
If we were being watched. He was being watched too. Everyone was being watched.
This was a part of what happened next after seeing Balthazar Kane and I’d learned from past experience what happened when he took people he needed information or something from.
He was watching all of us.
Watching me. It was how he knew I was involved on this mission.
Those guys came to kill us. Ethan would be on the hit list too and worse if it was found that he knew the location of the prints.
I had to keep this under wraps and take charge. This was my part, time for me to redeem myself from my recklessness with Jia.
I could get into the chamber and get the blueprints, and only then, meet Ethan somewhere to hand them over. That would place us one step ahead of the game.
I worked on instinct.
I’d learned that sometimes it wasn’t about running back to report what you found. It was about taking charge and seeing how far you go to accomplish this goal.
That was what you did when time was of the essence and there were so many variables at play.
A plan was coming together in my mind. One that would keep Balthazar and friends in the dark about the whereabouts of the blueprints.
“When should we get them bro?” Wes asked.
“Fucking soon as, but we need to plan it properly. No one can know when I go down in the chamber.”
“I’ll create a sort of diversion. Make Ethan think we need to look somewhere else. I could handle that. But I won’t be able to watch your back.”
“That’s okay. Let’s plan for two days.” Sunday.
Two days’ time would be Sunday.
Wes nodded his agreement.
Chapter 12
Jia
