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Message sent and received. And for Tanner, that was as subtle as it comes.
“Yeah, okay.” I cross the room to lean back against the wall. “What are you thinking?”
Relaxing back in his seat, he clicks that damn pen again, his dark stare running across all of us.
“We have three immediate problems at the moment. Paul, the governor, and Scott.”
It takes effort for me not to make the demand that Paul and Scott are left for me. Both have done things that threatened Brinley’s life, whether intentional against her or not. And they both need to be handled because of it.
But I bite my tongue and hold my opinions. Let Tanner take the lead for this one.
Pure evil glimmers in his eyes, and I see Treachery take over. He’s happiest when planning the next game to fuck up someone’s life.
“We play them against each other. Use one to destroy the other, and then once that shit hits the fan, lure Hillary in to make the situation a little messier.”
Okay. I’m listening.
Tanner clicks his pen. “Hell, if we play this right, we might even get Governor Callahan implicated. It’ll be a four for one, and the rest of us simply get to sit back and watch.”
Now, I’m really listening. Getting the governor off our back is just one more way to ensure Brinley remains safe in all of this.
“What are the marching orders?” Gabe asks.
“I need to think this over first. We’ll get to that when Mason gets back. I’m sure it’ll take all nine of us for what I figure out. However, there is still the question about how we’re getting our hands on the servers.”
“I know where they are,” Taylor pipes up. “From what Scott’s mom told me and the little bit of information Brinley told Shane when she got back, I was able to figure out the first house Brin’s mom rented when she first moved to Georgia.”
Gabe sips from his drink. “How do we know they haven’t been moved yet? Scott and Jerry have to know that Brinley will lead us right to them.”
“I’ve already taken care of that,” Tanner explains with another click of his damn pen. “I hired a private investigator to watch the house as soon as Taylor gave me the address. As long as they didn’t ditch the servers before he started watching the place, nobody has moved anything.”
“But has he seen any activity at all?” Gabe asks.
“He has. Just Jerry, though. But we all know Scott is back in town, so it makes sense he wasn’t spotted.”
Silence fills the room for a brief moment, all of us unsure what to do now that we know where the servers are located.
Remembering Brinley’s worry, I bring up the obvious problem.
“Whatever we do to retrieve them, we have to do it in a way that doesn’t hurt Brinley’s father. She’ll be devastated if she helped find him and got him killed in the process.”
Taylor makes a suggestion. “We could fly back to Georgia. Send Brinley into the safe house to get her father out then we go in to grab the servers.”
“Absolutely not,” I answer. “Her father wasn’t exactly sane when he took her from me. He allowed Scott to hold a loaded gun to her head. There’s no telling what he’ll do to protect the safe house.”
Tanner watches me carefully, understanding seeping into his expression.
“I get your concern, Shane, but if we have to ensure Jerry isn’t hurt, we need Brinley’s help. She’s the only person he won’t fight against.”
“We don’t know that.” The anger in my voice is barely restrained. I won’t risk her. Not for anything.
“Then let’s ask Brinley,” Gabe offers.
I glare in his direction.
He sighs.
“She might know how to get him away from the house without alerting him to the fact that we’re going in after the servers. If she meets him in public, it’s possible he won’t do anything stupid or hurt her.”
