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“Who else was sure we’d be following Detraux to some grimy warehouse?” I asked.
“For sure,” Ella said as the other two nodded.
“1212 One Plaza is a place called Fisher’s Exports,” Nadia said, giving us the results of her research. “The number on the card is issued to the same business.”
“So is Fisher’s a part of the Beast Boys or are we on the wrong track? Could Detraux just be some businessman?” Ella asked.
“No,” Shai and I said in unison.
We exchanged a look. I knew she’d seen it too. Detraux gave off a coldness that only the darkest of souls possessed. My career hadn’t been long, but I’d seen enough in that time underground to know what kind of men the Beast Boys employed. Detraux fit that to a T.
“Got it,” Ella said as she held up her hands in surrender.
I guess we had come on pretty strong. But Detraux was a Beast Boy. I could feel it. He could even betheBeast Boy, the one we’d been searching for. Something about him screamed ‘top dog.’
“He’s pulling into the parking garage,” Shai reported.
Ella and I immediately ducked again. We were getting close to our mark and couldn’t risk being seen.
We wound around the dark garage for a few floors before suddenly turning and stopping, telling me that Shai had parked.
“He’s a few spaces to our left, closer to the elevators,” Shai explained for those of us who had our faces in our laps.
“He’s getting out of his car,” Nadia continued.
“Crap!” she added as Shai used an expletive to describe her own feelings.
“He looked our way, didn’t he?” I guessed when I heard the twin outbursts.
“Yep,” Nadia said tightly.
“Were we made?” Ella asked.
Shai and Nadia didn’t respond. I knew they were drawing up plans in their minds so I did so as well.
Detraux and this card were our last connection to the Beast Boys. If we lost him now, we could lose these guys forever. I couldn’t live with that.
But if we followed him . . . he knew me. He’d seen my face. This wouldn’t be simple observation. This would be a mission to take them down. And we knew nothing about what we were walking into. The kind of manpower, fire power that awaited us.
We needed to call for back up.
But that would take time. And these guys were like roaches. If we spooked them, they would scatter into the recesses, never to be found again.
“We have to follow him,” I said as Shai motioned for us to sit back up. Detraux must have taken the elevator. That meant he was already one step ahead.
“I have to follow him. He saw your face,” Shai countered.
“And he just saw yours. If you’re going in, so am I.” I wasn’t about to budge. If walking into this place didn’t kill us, Susie surely would if we split up. Ah, who was I kidding? Susie would pour out her wrath on us even if Shai and I stayed together. But the alternative was worse.
“This is a suicide mission,” Nadia warned. She was probably right. We had no floor plans, no insight, nothing. We were walking in blind. It was everything our training had taught us not to do.
But I needed Detraux. I couldn’t let him walk away.
“We should have grabbed him here,” Ella stated.
She was right, too. But we hadn’t.
“He’ll have to come back to his car, right? We wait here. Grab him then,” Ella said.
