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Maybe she had a point.
Maura broke it down for her.
“They are systematically hunting for that crypto key. They’ve killed off most of their platoon looking for it. The military needs to be made aware of the situation.”
Oh, Elizabeth knew.
“I’ve already spoken to some people at the Pentagon. They’ve been made aware about what is going on here. They want that crypto key now too.”
Zayn shrugged.
“Finders keepers, fuck the Pentagon leaders.”
She stared at him.
“You’re insane,” she said. “You know what I mean. I can say the money is lost, but I can’t say thatThe BlackStone Grouphas it. That would be hella bad.”
Oh, they were well aware.
“They killed Hemmingway, the one name on the list, and we know you said they offed a couple of other soldiers. With Willy and Trent dead, thanks to us, we still have to find out what’s up with the rest of them.”
Elizabeth thought about it.
“And they think the one guy took it?”
She nodded.
“They were almost positive about it. They think he sent it home, or it came home with his possessions after he was killed. That doesn’t bode well for anyone left alive on that list,” she admitted.
Elizabeth agreed.
When she looked at her watch, she knew they were burning time.
Time they didn’t have.
Unfortunately.
“Well, you know there are two soldiers left to talk to in this area. We haveMr. Hiding In The Swamp, andMr. I’m Risking My Baby Momma.”
They were aware.
“We need to head there,” Maura admitted. “What did we find out?” she asked.
Calyx raised her hand.
She was parked on Remmy’s lap, and he was calmly letting her do her thing.
She’d assimilated rather easily.
“While you were playing games with two assholes, we got you the location and locked them down.”
Merry nodded.
“It took a lot of digging to confirm it, but it’s a hunting cabin that was owned by the man’s grandfather. I had to do a deed search that went back about one hundred years. It is sketchy as hell, but it netted us final answer on the hidey-hole.”
Maura listened.
“He has two places, and one from an NSA satellite picture, thanks to Elizabeth, is falling apart. He wouldn’t be there. The other…”
