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CHAPTER TWENTY
Kasey was so tired, but he was looking forward to a night off and being with Noam again. They had dinner plans at Noam's tonight, and Kasey would make sure they were both in bed early to catch up on the sleep they'd lost. He'd already convinced Noam to let him pick up something for dinner and save them both from having to cook.
"Everything go okay last night?" Carter walked out of the geek cave and into the living room where Kasey was waiting to talk to Bryon.
"Yep, in and out. The apartment was one of the worst we've had to get into. Xander managed to pick the lock without anyone seeing us, but it was tense. Cameras in the hallways and outside. I hate those kinds of places."
"I took care of the cameras, so you'll have no worry there." He sat down in one of the chairs. "Trenton and Matt have found another warehouse. It's in Nevada. Are you up for travel in the next week or two?"
"How big?"
"It looks like six or seven adults, but twenty or more women and children from what I can tell. Bryon would go with you guys on this one, but that's still four guys to seven. Not the best odds even if you can sneak up on them."
Kasey's chest tightened. How much danger was he willing to put himself in for the cause? "Have Xan and Dys said yes?"
"I haven't talked to them yet. Bryon is going to call a meeting tomorrow, so we can all talk about it. If it's too big, we'll just send the information to the locals and let them deal, but I know you guys like to get hold of these types personally. This one might be too large though."
That was the problem with keeping things small. They needed more men to work with them, but the risk of inviting anyone new into their circle was huge. Trusting the wrong person could put them all in prison. "Yeah, I need to talk to the other guys about this one. I'm not sure. Especially with it being out of state. We don't know the area, the cops, nothing. At least here we know people and places. We can hide out fast if we need to. We have Beau if we need him. There, if things go south, we'd have no choice but to go to a hospital. That's the last thing we need."
"I'm still doing surveillance. We should know more by tomorrow. No one will blame you if you turn this one down. My gut says hand it over to the police and walk away."
"Yeah, these guys aren't into it for the pleasure like the others. This is a business to them. Cutting off their cocks won't stop them from being money hungry. They'll get out and jump right back into things. It's their customers we want."
"I'm working on that as well, but again, most are out of state." Carter sighed.
"I'm up for a prolonged road trip as long as we are doing one or two at a time. It's the warehouses, the large groups that get me nervous."
"Me as well." Bryon walked into the room. "You okay? You look beat."
"Didn't get a lot of sleep. I'll be fine once I catch up." He rubbed the back of his neck. "I'm just checking in to see if you need a briefing about last night. I told Xander to stay home with Faith and I'd come in."
"Yeah, Matt got here an hour ago. He told me Xan wouldn't be in. As long as there were no issues, you're good to go."
"When we got in there, he was on some new website I'd never heard of before. Xan glanced at it and it looks like nothing but child porn being posted. We thought you might want to look into it in case it's something new you haven't heard of yet." It was rare that Bryon wasn't up to date on all the new apps and websites. He was deep in the dark web and was given VIP access to anything new that opened.
"What's the name of it?"
Kasey pulled out a piece of paper that Xander had written the name down on and passed it to Bryon. "He was uploading pictures when we walked in. He had plenty of the kid we knew about, but also several others. They were photographs, not copies."
"Fuck." Bryon read the name and shook his head. "No, I didn't know about this one. I'll investigate it this afternoon. You made sure the other pictures were left with the file?"
"We put the file on the desk right next to it, the computer was still open to the page he was uploading pics to. We didn't touch a thing."
"Good, hopefully the cops will be able to identify the kids." Bryon stared at Kasey. "You sure you're okay? You need to talk or anything?"
Kasey shook his head. "I'm good. Just a lot going on."
"The new guy?" Bryon grinned.
"Yeah, but he's great. Like I said, I'm just tired."
Carter stood. "I'll let you two talk. See you tomorrow." He waved as he headed back down the hall.
"So…" Bryon grinned. "Tell me about him."
Kasey didn't know what to tell. The last thing he wanted was for Bryon to find out he was dating a cop. "He's from Israel, but has lived here for quite a while. He served in the IDF, he is a gun collector. I'm not sure what else to say."
"Does he know about you yet?"
