“I’m going to strangle her.I HAVE TO DO IT!” he stated. “No court will convict me.”
Ethan calmed him down.
“If the Marines weren’t on her, she had a compelling reason to do this. She just locked him down. Now, Devon can’t go anywhere without worrying someone would want that reward. She neutered him. This will buy her time.”
Tony spoke up.
“We need time to get the skulls here, so I can go over them in real time. Trust Elizabeth.”
Callen agreed, even though he didn’t know what his wife had found on the last scene. If anything, she was balls to the wall, but she was also smart enough to cover her ass.
“As long as he can’t get to any of us, we’re good. You’re staying here.”
Ivan left no possible misinterpretation of how he was feeling.
“I hate this.”
Well, join the club.
Blackhawk shared.
“We need to get to work on whatever she encountered, and also thatMANYleads will be coming in, and we’re going to have to start categorizing them. It’ll be a team of people who need to figure out which are valid, and which are citizens seeing him on every street corner.”
Yeah, this was going to be a pain in the ass.
Bet.
On.
It.
Ethan said one more thing. Oh, he knew how dangerous this was for her.
“She’s pissed to do this. It had to be last case scenario. She must feel like she’s backed into a corner.”
MATE appeared in the room.
“Ya think?” she asked.
All four of them jumped when they heard her voice from nowhere.
“Jesus, MATE,” Ivan said.
If their AI was here, that meant that someone had an update for them. There was no doubt it would be to get them all on the same page.
“Elizabeth uploaded files from the scene she just walked. Yes, there’s been bodies found, but they are skeletal.”
Well, no shock.
Tony was working on holographic skulls.
“Not fleshy bodies?” Ethan asked.
MATE shook her head.
“No. This time, he left bones and only semi-fresh eyeballs. You’ll have access to the video of the scene, so you can start digging into it.”
Ethan was curious as to why she wasn’t telling them that, and not Elizabeth. He hoped she wasn’t still upset with him.
