Page 209 of Darling Wildfire
I barely had the patience to clean up but somehow I did and then paced impatiently around the war room while I waited for the others. Food and beers were brought in and soon everyone was assembled and Rune was throwing up the evidence boards on the massive monitors.
“Who is Quarry?” I asked.
Rune pulled up all the information they had on the middleman.
“He often pulls inventory from different sources and they end up in the auctions,” Rune said. “We’re not sure if he specializes in grooming certain kinks, certain women, or what, but they use him as a secondary often.”
I pulled out Emersyn’s photo. “We have her number now,” I said, paying attention to the writing under the image for the first time. “And apparently they nicknamed her Hurricane.”
Rune quickly pulled up a list and highlighted the matching number.
“There she is,” Rune said. “She went to Quarry.”
“This is good,” Deathwing nodded. “Now that we have her number and even a nickname, we’ll be able to track her as long as there is documentation.”
“I pulled up the cameras around the area,” West said. “Look at this.”
He threw a few video feeds up on a monitor and we watched a large work truck drive down a street near the warehouse. He paused the video and froze the image.
“There obviously aren’t any camera feeds near the warehouse, but I scanned the footage of the nearby streets and this truck is the only vehicle during the timeframe of the sale that could have been used to transport a group of people.”
“Can you follow it further?” I asked.
“On it now,” West answered.
West followed the truck until it left the city and then lost track of it as soon as there weren’t any more cameras.
“I’m already checking any available cameras outside town and in the next few cities accessible by that road,” Rune said.
The silence stretched as Rune and West searched through the area for any footage they could find. A few minutes later Rune shook his head.
“All I found is a gas station camera that caught them as they passed by,” he said. “The cities off that road don’t show them entering so they must have taken a side road somewhere into the hills out there.”
“What’s out there?”
“Just farmland until the Apennine Mountains.”
“How many other roads off that one could they have turned down?” I looked at the map of Rome and the surrounding countryside and mountain range.
“Not many but it will still take us time to check all of them,” Rune said.
He clicked a few things and the roads on the map lit up in yellow. Frustration rose in me. It was going to take time to search such a large area especially with the roads traveling deep into the mountain range.
“I’m going to call in additional resources,” I said.
I heard Deathwing coordinating his own teams as I walked out the back door to make the call.Northern Tacticalhad offices all over the world which meant I had tactical teams ready to go anywhere I needed them.
“Theo, please tell me you have a team available for me,” I said as soon as the line picked up.
“Of course boss, where are they going?” Theo was my Chief Operating Officer in this sector with an office in Florence. He dealt only with legalNorTaccontracts working with security details and other private military companies. My teams in Italy flew all over Europe doing security, extractions and other missions related to high-profile business and political names.
“Have them fly into Rome,” I said, already texting him the coordinates and flight information.
“You’re here?” Theo asked.
“Yeah, flew in yesterday for a job. Off the record.”
“Anything else I can do for you while you’re here?”
