I didn’t want to know, but I needed to. “Save their voice prints. And if you can get an ID match, send it to me. If not, I want to know their voices and track their phones, labeling them as dead one and two.” They will be soon enough. Vex better not kill them before I get a chance.
The van pulls into an underground parking lot and comes to a stop.
Fiona’s dot starts moving again but slower. They’re on foot.
Are they swapping cars, or have they arrived at their location? From all the information on The Spider, I expect them to swap. It would be the smart thing.
What I would have done. After I swept for bugs. “You sure they can’t see her bug?”
“Positive. If I didn’t know it was physically there, I would never have been able to find it or hack it. You should see what it took to hack it and shut it down. The coder on this was brilliant. Better than most military stuff.”
“You know I do most of the security for the government.”
“Yeah, I do, old man. This is better, just saying.”
Like he’s seen all my work. “Let me check it out.”
Everett snorts. “Maybe if you’re alive in a few hours.”
I glance over at Dad…he knows the risks. We all do.
“They’re at their destination. They’re putting her in a cage to wait for their boss. And Max…she might need medical attention. She bumped her head pretty bad. They said she isn’t awake yet.”
“Mute.” Dad bites out.
I do what he says.
“Can you do this? Can you see past your rage to do what needs to be done? Think carefully. Because if you can’t, you could become a danger in there.”
Do I want to go in there guns blazing and bodies dropping like Vex? “I want her alive more than I want anything else.”
Dad nods. “Unmute.”
“I’m searching for new phones to hack into, but I think she’s alone right now…Nix that. I’ve got two phones in her vicinity. Getting us ears now.”
Faster… “I’m going to look for any cameras around that I can hack into for some visuals.” We need to know what we’re walking into. Ethan prepped us for military level security. His team will drop in from the sky and work their way down. While the rest of us move in from all sides after we cut power to the building.
Just stay alive. Just stay alive.
“Anyone know if there is cobra antivenom available?” Everett asks. “I think she’s going to do it. Max, your woman is absolutely insane.”
What?!?
“I have antivenom back at The Street. Tell Barb to get at least six vials ready, as well as IV fluids, and a vent just in case.” Of course, Maddox has antivenom in his chamber of horrors.
My world goes blurry for a minute. Focus. She’s going to survive.
She’s got to survive.
“False alarm. That guy has a twisted sense of humor.”
He trafficks women. Nothing about him is normal.
“The woman keeps calling him Spidey. We have confirmation of target acquisition. She did it. Fiona did it.”
And there are cameras everywhere. They used an old petting zoo which had some really antiquated cameras hard-wired that they didn’t bother disconnecting. “Visuals inside being sent to team leads now.” I open them up in a slow scroll across all our tablets. “Time to go in.”
Be alive.
