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“MATE, focus,” Maura said, getting her attention so they could find out what she learned.

“Yes, Major,” she stated, giving her what she wanted. “That was the system running the account number Merry asked me to find. I located it.”

Well, hot damn.

“Tell us about it, MATE,” Jagger said, holding his wife’s hand in his.

Mate sat beside Zayn, likely because she knew he hated it. When she went to put her hand on his knee, it went through his body.

“It’s touching me,” he whispered. “Make it stop. Please.”

Maura laughed.

The tone in his voice was somewhere between panicked and shitting his pants.

“MATE, you know that freaks him out.”

She smiled.

It was clear she was aware.

“Anyway, the tech that you found at the dry cleaner’s, was definitely linked to an account. Only, it’s not an account number, per se.”

They were all confused.

“So we can’t drain his money dry?” Jagger asked, getting bummed out.

Mate shrugged.

“Not quite, J.”

They all stare at her, and then, him, waiting for Jagger to protest the use of that nickname. It was clear when he didn’t that he was just tired.

“Then what, MATE?” Maura asked.

Merry sighed.

“I’ll tell you because she’s dragging this out for attention, and the Major hates that,” she said, going there.

“Thank you, Merry,” Maura stated.

She dove in.

“Well, it seems that it’s an account to a bank but not an actual account-account. It’s likely to a safety deposit box. It’s not something I can hack into. I’ve tried. It’s a wall. That tells me it’s something tangible and solid.”

Greyson got it.

“I have five accounts like that,” he admitted. “I know what kind of account she means. They show up on my statements, but I can’t deposit into them since they are physical locations.”

They all looked over.

He explained.

“It’s a box I’ve set up for each of my children. Inside, are important things I’ve left them. The banks give them account numbers to keep track of them. Merry won’t be able to get inside of it digitally. The only way is the old-fashioned way.”

Well, that was a problem.

For.

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