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One of Lucy’s shoulders shrugged. “It’s registered to a manwithout a record. It looks like he’s a contractor of some kind, so he could belooking for a house. I don’t know. I don’t like it.”
“All right.” Kala started for the front of the townhouse.“I’ll take a look. Have you informed your father?”
Lucy winced. “I don’t want to worry him until I’m sure. He’sgot enough to deal with. He’s always nervous when my mom is involved.”
Kala pointed Devi’s way. “You stay here.”
Devi sat down and tried giving her cousin her bestI-will-cause-no-trouble smile. “I’m right here.”
Kala walked to the front door and stared out.
Lucy brought her laptop out. “I lost him. He turned at theend of the block, but I don’t see him on the next traffic cam.”
That felt like good news. “He probably found the house he’ssupposed to be at. So there’s nothing to worry about.”
Lucy didn’t look sure. She was staring at her laptop. “Hey,Kala, you get that text?”
Kala walked back in, staring at her phone. “Did you run thepictures Lou sent?”
“She already has facial recognition.” Lucy whistled. “Idon’t like that Interpol is at the train station. We should have brought her inby car, but my mother insisted on public transit.”
“Hey, Shannon Reed insisted on it,” Kala corrected. “Don’tblame your mom. She’s doing everything she can to help us. Okay. Lou and Tashare handling this. There are tunnels they can get Zach out of. Cooper will tryto distract them and our dads will get Shannon out, but we have to consider thefact that Huisman is either at the station or close by monitoring. Put hispicture through Tris’s program.”
From what she’d heard this morning, Tristan’s program wassome kind of upgraded facial recognition with superfast results.
“On it.” Lucy’s hands moved across the keys.
Kala was staring down at her phone, obviously waiting forsomething.
Interpol. The European police force that had a notice out onZach was at the train station. Her gut twisted. It was too much of acoincidence. They had to be there for Zach. Who could have tipped them off?They’d been careful on the train. They were certain the cameras hadn’t caughtZach, but what if they’d caught her at some point and Huisman had told thepolice that Zach was traveling with her? What if she was the reason Zach wasabout to get hauled to prison? “Where will they take him?”
“Don’t worry about that now,” Kala replied, her thumbsworking the screen of her phone. “The team will get him out. We need to prep tomove. I’m waiting for the bug-out call. Devi, go and pack what you need. We’removing out of here in ten minutes tops.”
“You don’t want to hole up?” Lucy asked.
“If they know we’re here, all they have to do is sit outsidethe panic room and wait for the doors to open,” Kala pointed out. “It would beone thing if the team was coming back, but we all need to move and give them abunch of targets to try to follow. We’re going to London.”
“We?” Lucy asked, challenging her.
“Yes, fucking we. I’m not leaving you here. I’m the seniorofficer and you’re going with me. I’m not going to let you fall into Huisman’shands. He would absolutely turn you and you would be a chaotic goddess whowould kill us all. So get the fuck ready to move out.” Kala strode away,putting the phone to her ear.
Devi stood, adrenaline starting to pour through her. Zachwas out there. People were after him. “What if they try to kill him at thestation?”
“They won’t. They’ll take him in.” Lucy sounded soreasonable. “Your uncle and his team will get him out.”
“But this guy, Huisman, he’s known for blowing crap up, andhe doesn’t care who he hurts. I should know. I was in the last place he set onfire.”
Lucy looked up. “First, the facial rec doesn’t show him herein Liverpool or anywhere in England. Now I do have a couple of known Disruptmembers entering the train station about five minutes ago, so we have twoproblems. I think Huisman is going to use Interpol to distract the team, andwhile they’re worried about Zach and trying to deal with that, the mercenarieswill pick off Shannon Reed or one of our people who they will offer to tradeher for.”
“You mean they’ll try to get Lou or Tash?”
Lucy nodded. “Yes, but I assure you they’re already on themove. Tash and Lou know how to handle themselves. My question is who tippedthem off? Mom and Shannon are traveling on excellent faked passports. I checkedas they moved through security. It should have worked. I wouldn’t have allowedmy mother to get on that train if I wasn’t sure I had protected her. She andShannon are wearing some tech that tricks facial recognition.”
“We can’t let Huisman get hold of any of us. Kala nearlydied.” The idea of her cousin being in that madman’s hands again made her wantto throw up.
“I’m surprised to hear that. All the stories around theAgency are that Miss Magenta is immortal.”
“She’s not. Lucy, I’m not joking. What Huisman did to hernearly killed her. It still might because we’re not sure how much long-termdamage he did to her heart. If he gets her again, he’ll use a paralytic on her,and then he has drugs that inflict unbelievable amounts of pain on the body. Iheard her cry. I heard it. If she has to go through that again, her heart won’tbe able to take it.”
