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“I can do it. Just get me close enough to him, and give me some backup in the form of Spiders. I’ll put him down. I need to in order to stop being afraid. You took out Two and Three, so he’ll be alone. Shing told us Four, Five, and Six are already in the wind.”

Lordy, but this was risky.

Maura walked back over to the wall where she had run numbers last night, and she began doing it all over again.

As she did, she switched from black marker to red, and that was a bad sign.

“Well?” Elizabeth asked.

“It’s doable, but it all hinges on one unknown. Can Alyona face her fears. If she can, we have him. If she can’t…”

That said it all.

Alyona looked at Greyson.

The look on her face said it all, and he was going to go to bat for her every single time.

“She has this.”

Elizabeth was skeptical. Someone who sustained that kind of abuse…

“Greyson.”

He glanced over at Ethan.

“She has this. I swear on my life.”

Ethan knew that the man really believed it. They went way back, and Greyson didn’t make a comment lightly.

He backed him up.

“Let her do it,” he said to his wife.

Elizabeth looked back and forth between the two men. Whatever happened in their past had to be hella big because for Ethan to take that on just his word…

“I’m in,” Elizabeth said, trusting Ethan.

Maura shrugged.

If the boss was in, they were all in. This was, after all, her shitshow if it went south.

“Okay. Let’s help her do this,” Maura said. “What do you need?”

And just like that, Alyona was in control of not only her fate, but everyone’s.

Now, she had no choice but to deliver.

At the question, she was specific.

“I need to call him, but I need a way to alter my location so he can’t find you guys. Is there a way to scramble it in case he has the tech to track me?”

MATE appeared.

“I can make it look like your call is coming from The French Quarter,” she offered.

“He’d never go there,” Ethan said. “He’ll deem it unsafe. He’s going to jerk you around, make sure it’s you, and then lure you to him.”

Oh, she was aware.

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