Page 63 of Allegiance

“I spoke to Calyx at The Underground. She’s hearing absolutely nothing about anything related to Chevy. It’s like he’s gone radio silent, or maybe, he’s left the city to do his dirty deeds long distance.”

Jagger clued them in.

“He’s a Marine,” he said. “Chevy was trained to do just that, and he’s damn good at hiding in plain sight. We didn’t even know that he was betraying us. We believed he died in that jungle prison years ago.”

Well, that was going to be a Hunter issue.

Elizabeth wasn’t done.

“I also have more bad news for you.”

That had their attention.

“What?” Tommy asked. “I mean, dirty cops are pretty bad. How does this get worse?”

Yeah, the man was green.

“Turn to page Seven, MATE,” she said, and the screen changed. On it, there was a man in a white lab coat, and someone had burned out his eyes, taken his fingers, and removed his teeth.

“What the hell?” Zayn said. “Trying to eat a muffin here. That’s nasty, and I need a warning.”

Boone just laughed.

He didn’t.

He ate his muffins over dead bodies with Cordelia plenty of times when he’d still been a cop.

She explained.

“That’s Doctor Wilhelm Detrick. He’s a German plastic surgeon. He works as a backroom man who changes faces for a living. He turned up dead two months ago. Until now, I didn’t get it.”

Neither did they.

“Why is he tied to this?” Merry asked.

“A man hiding from you guys, and a disfigured plastic surgeon who saw a man who looked a lot like Chevy before this happened…?”

Well, shit.

Someone changed his face.

That wasn’t going to be a good thing.

Not.

At.

All.

Maura immediately understood.

“We can’t find Chevy on facial recognition because the asshole changed his face enough to hide from us. He’s walking around in this city laughing at us because we can’t track him with tech!”

Jagger scowled.

“I really, really, really hate that asshole and that the Marines taught him how to evade more Marines.”

Oh, they all did.

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