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“What’s that?” she asked curiously.
I looked at her and shrugged. “Kidnap Baz and take him to Fox.”
“I don’t think that will work.”
“I know. We’d have everyone in his organization coming after us.”
“And everyone from The Syndicate,” she pointed out. “Taking him out was never the solution.”
“If I take him out, another man pops up in his place, someone that The Syndicate can manipulate more than Baz. Not to mention that I’d have to go into hiding for the foreseeable future.”
“Maybe that’s what we do then. We take out Baz and run. You’d be protected by OPS, and we could track their movements. Maybe we can only cripple them for now.”
“If that was the answer, Rafe would have done it a long time ago.”
“Yeah, speaking of Rafe…do you get the feeling that something more is going on that he doesn’t want to tell us about?”
“Like what?”
I could tell something was eating at her, but she didn’t want to say. “It’s probably nothing.”
“You know how it is in this business. Even the smallest detail could give away a bigger story.”
I waited for her to say whatever was on her mind. It wasn’t like Rae to hold back. Then again, she never spoke her mind unless she had all the facts. That had to be the problem.
“Look, I don’t know if it means something or not, but…FNG was supposed to do a job for Rafe. He was supposed to find a woman on an island. The plan failed because of how high the security was, and FNG knew it was likely to go sideways. Anyway, the job wasn’t to get the woman off the island, but to find her and keep an eye on her.”
That was interesting. Rafe had never said anything in all his yearsabout trying to find a woman. It might not even have anything to do with The Syndicate. “Did he say anything about this woman?”
“No. He had no intel on her. Only that she was American, but no other details.”
“Then how could he be sure he was watching the right person?”
“I’m assuming because she was probably the only woman on the island. But like I said, I’m not sure if it means anything.”
“If Rafe went to all the trouble of faking FNG’s death, then she definitely means something.”
“Well, we can worry about that later. You should probably get back to your house before Skylar suspects something.”
“Yeah…Do me a favor and tell Johnny we might need to use his safe house again.”
“His safe house?”
I could see the curiosity in her eyes. Rae had probably run checks on all of us already, and from the look in her eyes, she didn’t know anything about this safe house, which didn’t surprise me at all. “Just tell him.”
“Be safe.”
I nodded and walked out the door. Safety was a relative thing nowadays.
17
SKYLAR
I was rattled morethan I wanted to admit. Parker had finally calmed down and was now passed out in Jack’s bed. I wasn’t sure if it was okay for him to be in there, but he was exhausted and I needed to calm him down. I stared down at my son and tried to figure out my next step. That money was supposed to set us up for a new life, and now it was all gone. There was only one person who could have taken it.
“I can take you home with me,” Pete offered, resting his hand on my shoulder.
Not wanting to wake up Parker, I took Pete’s hand and pulled him into the other room, shutting the door slightly. “I don’t want to move him. It took too long to calm him down.”
