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Matt walked over to Bryon. "I still have my buyer profile. I can get into this auction as a buyer and that might help us track the location easier. I worked that profile for years gaining trust. No one will question me if I get on and start browsing through the children offered."
Becca's stomach turned at the idea.
"Are you able to access it from here?" Bryon asked.
"No, but I can connect remotely to Denver and have Marshall work with me. He's got my bio information since he's used it before. I know how to talk to these men. They'll remember me from other times. I'd let Marshall do it, but these men will want a visual and they know my face. If nothing else, I can make an offer on a kid, and we can track the money. Clean out their accounts if we can get to the main source." Matt shrugged. "I know you don't want to go big, but if we can help these kids, we have to."
"Fuck, I wish we were home. I'd feel a hell of a lot better about all this if we were on our team computers where I know we can't be traced." Bryon ran his fingers through his hair. "Go do it. See what you come up with, but make sure you take every precaution you can. Don't do anything that might lead them here or get you caught. Have Marshall do everything from his side that you can."
As Matt walked off, Becca reached out and brushed her hand down Bryon's arm. "Breathe. They know what they're doing. This isn't their first rodeo. I know you worry, but they'll protect the team and Danny. Let them dig. It gives them something to do and you never know what they might come up with. Once I get everyone fed, Faith and I will see if we can find any family friends of Lenora's if she remembers them. My goal is to get her and her brother somewhere safe."
"Have Matt, Trenton, or Carter set up a computer for you. One where they can't track your searches. Who knows if anyone will be looking for Lenora's name to pop up now that we have her? Just be safe, whatever you do. Let us focus on the brother. I don't want you digging into CPS or any of that, okay?"
She flipped a pancake. "Promise. Now grab a plate and eat before you forget to." She gestured to the growing stack of pancakes beside her.
"Or before I eat them all." Xander piled four on his plate, then leaned in and gave Becca a kiss on the cheek. "Thanks for feeding me."
"Anytime." She grinned.
"They keep kissing you and I might get jealous." Bryon pouted playfully.
"They get my cheek. You get my lips." She leaned in and kissed him hard on the mouth. "Now eat. I don't want to worry about you more than I already will."
"Yes, Ma'am." He slapped her ass playfully and reached for a plate.
As everyone around her started to eat, she focused on the food and mentally started a grocery list. If she was going to keep the men happy and fed, she'd need a lot of food. She had no idea how long they'd be here, but she would plan for at least three days. Something told her if they stayed any longer than that, it wouldn't be good for any of them.
CHAPTER TEN
Bryon walked into the large room in the basement he'd set up as their headquarters. It was nothing more than a living room with a large TV and several couches, but it was out of the way and private, keeping the staff at Danny's house from listening in on what they were up to. While he had Danny's word his staff wouldn't talk, what they did wasn't something he wanted anyone to know about. Even Danny didn't know the extent his team went so they could protect and save children.
"What do we have?" Matt asked.
Bryon looked at the team and sighed. "A big clusterfuck."
"Not the first clusterfuck we've faced," Kasey pointed out.
"No, but the fact we're doing it in a city with cameras on every street corner and we're taking on one of the biggest trafficking gangs in the country makes it even riskier." He set down a file filled with information and took a seat on one of the couches next to Archer. "Let's start this meeting by getting everything out in the open and figuring out just how far we want to take this. We have several options. First, we rescue Andy from his foster home, unite him with his sister, and find them a safe place to go. We have his location and enough intel to get him out tonight if everyone is in agreement that we should do this." He looked around. "Anyone think doing this is too risky?"
The group looked around at each other, but not even one spoke up in refusal.
"Okay, so that's a go. Let me recap what information we've gathered in the last few hours, then we can plan from there. Thanks to the Denver team assisting us, we've gathered a lot of intel. First, Lenora sat down with Becca and Faith, and they've drawn us a map of the foster home they were staying at. Parson was able to get the location from his CPS source. Noam and Kasey drove over and confirmed that Andy is there along with two other boys and one girl. Lenora saw the pictures Noam took and it is her brother. As we figured, very little was done to search for family or friends of Lenora. Since there wasn't anyone here in Vegas, CPS took custody, waited seventy-two hours, then decided that was long enough to search. From what we can tell, there really wasn't a search done. They never entered Lenora into the system. The file reads as if Andy was an only child."
"Are we sure Lenora isn't the one making up a story?" Xander asked.
"We confirmed through school records that they're related. Those were easy to hack into. We've also confirmed through the school records and immunization records that they used to live in Michigan. The Denver team is following up, trying to find friends or family that might want the children." Bryon read over his notes.
"Do we have the name of who with CPS handled the case? That will help us find who is working to supply Diaz with children," Archer asked.
"I'm working with my source at CPS to gather information on who is involved. While we know many at CPS are dirty and paid extremely well to assist with child trafficking, not everyone who works there is involved. She's willing to work with us in the background until we see if there is family or friends who want the kids. If not, she'll put them back into the system legitimately and make sure they are safe. She's digging into other cases of children who have been placed in this specific foster home to see what she can find, but if they aren't even putting kids into the system and making it appear like the child didn't exist, it won't be easy," Parson told the team. "Trenton has been digging into the foster parents and working to find out more about them since we know they are obviously involved in this."
"Keep us posted." Bryon nodded to Parson, glad for his help and connections.
"I've managed to hack into traffic cameras around the foster home and we're watching who comes and goes." Carter sat forward. "I've also got a friend from Homeland Security sending me everything they have on the Diaz group."
"And I have someone digging deep into Jason Wagstaff. He appears clean at first glance, but since we know he bought Lenora from Diaz, we know there's more to find out about him. If there is anything, we'll find it." Archer rested his hand on Carter's thigh.
"Guys, again, I'm not sure how deep we want to go on this. This isn't our territory. We're here without resources or equipment. We might be better off passing the information we have on to one of the bigger rescue organizations and sit this one out." Bryon sighed. "I have to think of our safety first. This isn't some Boy Scout leader abusing little boys, this is a cartel organization that has money and power. We're outnumbered and out-resourced on this one."
