“Give me some time. We’ll head there now with a bunch of cops. If they are alive, I can scare the shit out of them—and that should be the outcome if they are helping a killer.”
She was grateful.
“Thanks, Dex.”
She hung up.
Now, they needed to work on the last part. If she was right, they needed to figure out who was helping him again tie up loose ends.
“He personally delivered those flowers to cover his ass on camera. He only needs one juror to hang a jury.BUTwe also know they were laced with poison. He’d play dumb to that, so that means he needed help with that, too.”
Gene knew what she was saying.
“A chemist?”
She nodded.
“Exactly. If he’s tying up loose ends on the apprentice front, who do you hire to take out apprentices?” she asked.
Gene knew.
“Mercenaries.”
She nodded.
“He bought his help, like we buy our help when we need it. I never thought he’d do the same thing,” Elizabeth admitted. “We hire the Spiders, the Snakes orThe Hunters. Well, he does the same thing.”
Elizabeth glanced over.
Speaking of the mercenaries. Now, she needed to know if Gene had done what she asked.
“Are they in the air?”
He nodded.
“By now, yes,” he stated. “It’s Callen’s jet, so we can track that.”
And Ivan, who wasn’t far away, and who had been listening the whole time, did just that. He had the tracker going, and shared what he found.
“Yep. They are in the air.”
Good.
Ethan was curious.
“You called them in?” he asked.
Elizabeth had been breaking down, and had no hope, so she had no choice. If she went down, he won. Now knowing what she knew, they needed their help.
You didn’t fight mercenaries with federal agents. You fought them with other mercenaries. If Devon was buying help, so was she.
Oh, and wouldn’t he be shocked when he came face-to-face with them?
It was officially tit for tat here. She’d turn the tables so he never saw it coming.
Her job was harder because the bottom line was that no matter what he threw at her, she had to hold up. The whole family was counting on her. The weight of that was heavy, but she had to carry it.
Period.
