“There might have been some crossover between my work and her mother’s. One of my targets was Solokov, which was someone her mother was investigating.”
His father’s eyes widened. “That’s interesting. But he’s long gone.”
Ian nodded, confirming the kill. Everyone knew that he had been a sniper at one time, so there was no reason to hide it.
“He’s gone,” Lila said from the doorway to his room. “But he has people he worked with that are just as bad.”
“And why would they be after you?” Ian asked, irritated that she looked so pale, plus, she looked like she was about to fall down.
“Because my parents got hold of his illegal funds and shut them down.”
“All these years later you think they are still after some money?”
“I’ve often thought that they were pissed my parents got the money, but then the CIA doesn’t know where it is.”
He blinked. “Are you telling me your parents shut down his bank accounts, and the money’s missing?”
She nodded. “I think they did it the week they were killed.”
He looked at the other men, then back to Lila. “How much are we talking about?”
“Today, it would be worth about five billion, so yeah, I would say they could still be after that money.”
Seven
She might have made a mistake. Lila didn’t make many, but this one could be a doozy. In the years since she’d discovered the money, she had told only one person, and her grandmother, well she couldn’t tell anyone. Lila was the only living soul who knew about this. Or at least, the only living soul trying to find the money.
The only one of the group she had reservations about would be Jenner. He was new to Dillon, and she hadn’t had time to dig into his past.
The other three…she definitely trusted them.
But all four men were looking at her as if she had lost her mind. She was used to that. Being someone who worked in code and hacking, she tended to say things that got her into trouble.
“Do you want to repeat that again?” Ian said carefully.
“That the money is missing or that it would be worth over five billion today?”
“Crypto is volatile, so how do you know?” El asked.
“Because I could trace the money. Well, trace the history of it. Mom put it in some kind of safe hold, then…poof, it disappeared.”
“How many people in the division would have known where it was?” El asked.
El…he would always be CIA. He and his sister had been raised by two people who used their cover of Middle Eastern business dealings as a way to work for the CIA. They were brought up in that world, and she always thought it was sad that his parents didn’t let them have normal childhoods. Of course, her parents had done that and look at what a disaster that turned into.
She pushed that aside and studied El. She could see that he was going through the divisions in the CIA in his head to figure out who would have known.
She sighed. “Not sure. I hacked into the case, but the documents have been erased.”
Everything in the room seemed to still. “You couldn’t find them?” Ian asked.
She shook her head.
“Fuck,” El said.
“Does someone want to clue me in on why that’s bad?” Jenner asked.
When no one else answered, Lila decided to.
