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Kash: Bailey will fill you in. Come back. I have to circle the wagons, don’t have time for more.
That was it. He was texting me back, but I ignored his calls. What I said was true. I’d lost Bright and Wilson from my pocket. They were looking at me as an adversary, trying to find charges against me, and, well, they’d have a fight on their hands. I hadn’t intended on adopting the mantra that if I went down, they’d go down, but since they were flying around me, I was taking that mantra on now.
Game on.
“Hello?”
“I need you to pull up anything and everything on my two FBI assets.”
“Not to incriminate you, I’m assuming.”
“Correct.”
If they took payments from me, guarantee there was a whole closet of other payments, other bribes, other times they had looked the other way. They looked the other way when Bailey was first brought in, and they did it without blinking. There was a pattern, one they’d been doing for a long time, and there was a trail. There was always a trail.
“You don’t want your girl to look into it?”
I paused, just briefly, as I considered it. “No.” Bailey needed to be as clear from this as possible. “They said she left a trail when she found them. I need to know if she did.”
“She didn’t.”
My hand tightened on the phone. “Are you sure?”
“She left one system open, the neighbor’s, but that was it. And I only know it was your girl because you told me what was going on. I’ll look, but I didn’t see anything they could trail back to her.”
“They found the house.”
He was silent on his end.
I could read between the lines. I doubted they would’ve found the house on their own, not as fast as they did. That meant something happened. They had followed—
He interrupted my thoughts. “They might’ve put an alert on your location, figuring you’d hunker down and have her look.”
“They can do that?”
“They can do almost anything, but if she erased her trail…”
“Could they still have it?”
He was silent again. A long second. “I don’t know.”
Fuck.
“Can you break in? See whether they have anything on her?”
“They’re saying they do?”
“Yeah.” I hated that word. I hated that admission.
“I’ll look, but once I do, they’ll trail it back to me. Our own location will be exposed.”
I couldn’t risk Bailey.
“Start packing up. Do it remote, if you can,” I responded, still walking down the hallway to our room.
“On it.”
I ended the call as I got to the room, and going inside, I saw Bailey hadn’t moved. Her eyes were big. She was clutching her knees to her chest. I cursed, seeing how pale she was.
