Downtown
The Job
Jinx would be lying if she said she wasn’t incredibly giddy to be back to work. As of late, life had gotten in the way and so had hunting down Von Donore.
They were all-hands-on-deck with trying to find the people behindThe BlackStone Group.So being able to take a job and handle the trash…
It felt good.
You didn’t have to get ready if you stayed ready. That was always a good motto to have. She was a tad bit rusty at missions like this, since most of her time was spent playing Hunter and mommy.
Not that she didn’t love both of those things, but when you were a Snake for a while, it became your whole identity—until it didn’t.
She missed the fast-paced action, and the ability to test her own skills as a government killer.
So, having this job come up…
It was going to be fun.
Jinx could already tell.
How did she know?
Well, first off, the dude lived in a high-rise apartment. That made it so damn difficult to get in there without drawing attention to herself. Jobs like this paid what they paid for a reason.
She got the big bucks because the client wanted her to disappear in plain sight, slip past cameras, people, and security to find the man's apartment, and somehow take him down.
She couldn’t scale the building.
That was out.
Jinx couldn’t pull a fire alarm.
That was out.
On top of that, there had to be about five hundred apartments. It looked as if she was going to have to figure out a different way to get in there.
And that’s when it happened.
She saw him.
On the flight there, she’d done her recon, getting all she could from Remmy and Calyx. She had his face, and lo and behold, the dude was leaving the building.
Holy shit.
Don’t tell her that the universe didn’t like a Snake, because now, he was on the move.
Yeah, he was going somewhere.
In his hand, he was holding a duffle bag, and at first, she thought he was going out on a job. Instead, he walked down the street, and she followed, driving past, parking, and waiting to see where he went.
That went on for about five blocks, and ten minutes. When she saw him go into a gym, Jinx knew she was about to get sweaty.
It was the most logical place to make her move on him. Not only was it perfect timing, but no one would pay any attention to her.
Not.
At.
