Sphere: Blackwood Security Book 9.5 by Elise Noble

Author:Elise Noble [Noble, Elise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Undercover Publishing Limited
Published: 2020-06-29T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

FIVE MINUTES LATER, everyone except Jeffrey Monteith sat around us on the platform. He still seemed kind of shell-shocked by developments, but I’d sent him into the control booth to monitor what was going on outside. His job now was to buy us time.

Kayleigh Monteith was being treated at Richmond General, and Mack had verified Jeffrey’s story by calling Dr. Beech, our favourite ER doctor and a man who could easily be bought for donations to whatever charity project he happened to be running that month. After a promise from Blackwood to send a gift basket for his next fundraising raffle, he dug around in the computer system and found the information we needed. Kayleigh Monteith’s situation was desperate. Her family had already sold everything they owned to fund medical expenses, and their insurance plan didn’t cover a cutting-edge drug like Cytoblin.

It was her last chance.

Neil Robinson, it turned out, was her boyfriend. Kelbyn had shown us a photo of the three of them together in happier times. A pretty brunette standing between two grinning men, her arms around them both. Even though he was meant to be posing for the photographer, Neil’s focus was on her, his smile for his girl rather than the camera. Young love. Once again, I was struck by the injustice in the world.

Now Neil huddled beside Kelbyn, hugging his knees to his chest and looking as if he might vomit at any given moment. Artemis didn’t seem much better. She was nestled between the legs of the guy who’d been sitting next to her on the roller coaster, and he was doing his best to keep her calm. Isolde? She appeared a little more gung-ho. She’d already suggested increasing the ransom to five million bucks, one million for each time their father had told them that their new make-up business was a frivolous waste of their time. And that was just so far this week.

“We need a plan,” I muttered. “I’m used to catching kidnappers, not being one.”

“Simple,” Carmen said. “Just think of every slip-up the pendejos you caught in the past made and avoid doing all of those things.”

“Gee, why didn’t I think of that?”

Okay, okay, I had to start at the beginning. We had two key objectives. One: get Pharma Daddy to cough up the cash, and two: make sure nobody in the sphere got caught.

To achieve the first, we’d need to go in fast and hard. No wiggle room allowed. And for the second, everybody needed to understand their role, remember their story, and agree to take the secret to the grave.

I addressed the last point first. Me and the girls still had scarves across our faces, but everyone had seen Race, Vine, and Trick. Probably knew their damn names too. I couldn’t risk today’s actions coming back to bite them on the ass later, nor did I want the Monteith family to get any nasty surprises a year or two into the future.

“Before we cross the line from morally dubious into abso-fucking-lutely illegal, everybody has to understand one thing.

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