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Those emotions gave me my answer, even though I still felt unsteady. I was sure of this one thing.
“This isn’t just about protecting the crew anymore,” I said. “We want to do that, yes, but at this point, I think we need to consider this a job we’re hiring ourselves for. It doesn’t matter if no one is paying us to destroy this asshole. We’re among the few who know what he’s doing. We have a responsibility to take him down. And that’ll solve our problems with him too.”
To my relief, the rest of my crew nodded in agreement. “I’m all for crushing him into a pulp,” Dess said tightly. “But where do we start?”
“We have an entry point now.” I motioned in the direction of the town we’d just left. “We might not be in a position to outright crush him yet, so we’ll interfere with his business interests as much as possible. We need to identify key associates we can eliminate, ways we can intercept the delivery of these girls, anything that’ll threaten his reputation and his support network.”
Garrison clapped his hands together. “Sounds good to me. But we still need a name or a place if we’re going to do that.”
“I’m working on it,” Blaze mumbled, typing even faster. Then he let out a little whoop. “And I’ve got it! Thank fuck.” He shot a triumphant look at Garrison. “Oh ye of little faith.”
As Garrison snorted, I snapped my fingers to bring their attention back to the matter at hand. “What have you got, Blaze? What do we have to work with?”
His gaze shifted to me, a grin stretching across his face. “I can’t help you with the names of the people—everything’s encoded with aliases, just like we work. But I can give you a place. I caught a transmission that includes the address of a private airfield not too far from here with instructions for a ‘pick-up’ tomorrow night.”
Dess inhaled sharply. “That’s where they’re handing off the girls.”
Blaze nodded. “I think so, probably after bringing them in on a private cargo flight. I haven’t been able to find an exact time or flight number, but knowing the airfield is enough for me to narrow it down. I’ll keep monitoring activity there, and we can get in place tomorrow night to be ready to dive in and raise hell as soon as they arrive.”
“It doesn’t seem likely that the Blood Hunter himself would show up for the hand-off, does it?” Dess said.
Garrison shook his head. “No, he’s trying not to get too mired in his own shit. But we can take down a few of his trusted associates and draw police attention to his trafficking operations. It’ll definitely be a blow.”
“It will,” I said, but my heart still felt heavy. Itwasa start, and it was the first concrete trail we’d found that could lead us to striking down the Blood Hunter in the end. But with the images of the women he’d sold lingering in the back of my mind and the four people who meant more than anything to me around me, I couldn’t help feeling that it wasn’t even close to good enough.
