Page 148 of Assassin

They hit paydirt.

“We found Alexsandr’s cash stash. There has to be five hundred grand in here, and then all of the jewelry…”

They couldn’t leave it behind for the man. They didn’t know what Alexsandr knew or didn’t know.

“We take it all,” Jagger said. “If we want to slow down the Russian bullshit heading here tomorrow, we take his informants and cash away.”

When Mate chimed, Jagger was curious.

“Yeah, MATE?”

“May I suggest not trying to take that over the rooftops and instead use the tunnel beneath this business?”

Well, that had merit.

It also was surprising. There were very FEW underground features in NOLA due to the city being below sea level.

“What do you mean the tunnels?” he asked.

MATE shared what she’d discovered.

“This building was used during prohibition. There are tunnels beneath it. You can follow them a mile away to an exit spot.”

“How did you find this?” Jagger asked.

That’s when Merry’s voice came over the com to answer that for them.

“It was me. I hacked the records, went in, and found the schematics, and located the best exit. There’s a wall in the lowest level that has an access point.”

Well, hot damn.

Never let it be said that Merry wasn’t high up on their favorite-person list.

“Can you get Zayn to a pickup location to meet us? We have A LOT of money and things in here. We can’t leave it, and we can’t risk that someone will bring Alexsandr here.”

MATE was all over that.

“I will get the pretty one there.”

As soon as he heard that, Zayn protested.

“God is my co-pilot not MATE,” he said.

MATE chortled.

“In five years, I will be a God. Can you wait?”

They heard Zayn’s gasp of horror, and the Major’s amusement, proving she was listening in and letting Jagger handle this.

“Deal with it,” Jagger said. “I don’t have time to babysit our AI.”

He glanced over at Rogue, knowing what they needed now more than anything.

“Get me Shing’s location, or kill them.”

He nodded, and as Jagger used cording that he brought with him to scale down a building if need be, he tied sections to the bags of money and jewelry.

It was going to be a long walk. He hoped everyone was ready for a mile carrying their bodyweight. This was exactly why he wished he had Marines.

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