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Of course she thought that.
“This is a police case,” Gage said. They hardly needed her people confusing things when her division that worked cases like these wasn’t even available.
With the time crunch he had to fall back on what he knew. His team, and the training they’d done together. He had to do what he knew because that was how he’d been trained. Procedure and training meant he could control the variables.
Clare? She was the unknown here. The risky proposition because he couldn’t work out the end result. It meant taking a chance, and he wasn’t sure he wanted to do the risky thing.
Even if jumping in with both feet and having her in his life meant he gained everything he’d ever wanted.
And this time, he might not lose it all.
“SWAT can take it from here.” He wasn’t backing down about that.
Regardless of the hurt that flashed across her face at being sidelined. She’d realize soon enough it was better for her to stay here. Safeguard Alex and Selena. Work the case from this end, praying another doctor could reverse what Mares had done.
The doctor started to go with Blake and Jasper, but his phone chimed, stopping him in his tracks. “It’s them.” He looked at Gage. “They’re leaving her for me to go get her.”
“Do they say when or where?”
Mares’ face paled. “Freemont Park. Eight p.m.”
Gage looked at his watch. “We have three hours.”
TWENTY-THREE
Berlin walked out of his room, closing and locking the door behind him. The master, of course. The others bunked together in smaller rooms, but he had his own because it was his house. And he had another suite of rooms.
Miami and London were both taken care of. Retrieval of the diamonds was in the works.
He forced his body to gasp. Worked his way up into what would appear to be a freaked-out state. Then he strode out to the living area way too fast.
Rio and Phoenix were occupying themselves sniffing more up their noses. Drinking. Passing the time the only way they knew how when the job was done and their worthless lives no longer meant anything.
He had no use for them.
The gun tucked in the back of his belt pressed against the skin of his back. How easy it would be to pull it out and bury a bullet in each man’s forehead.
“I’m going out.”
Rio twisted around, face pale and eyes red rimmed. The guy looked like a corpse.
Berlin had to keep himself from wincing in disgust.
Rio said, “Did you hear anything?”
Berlin shook his head. “I might try and call that girl of his. Selena, is that her name? I need to try and track her down. Ask her if she knows where he is.”
“It doesn’t make sense that he’d just ditch us.” Phoenix actually teared up. “This whole thing is falling apart, and we’re not even done!”
They were done.“It’s gonna be okay, yeah?” He’d rather have killed himself right then. “Pull it together and trust me.”
They either did, or he would kill them right now.
Rio nodded like a little puppy. It really was a shame, since it seemed Miami was the one he could actually tolerate. “We trust you. Just one more thing, right? We heard what you were doing upstairs.”
Berlin stilled.
“It’s fine, right? You got this?” Rio locked eyes with him. “When you’re done, we can split the money and go our separate ways.”
