Page 154 of Affair
“You had better believe it. MATE and I can handle it. Bring it in. If it’s an original photo, I can go in and see what I can pull out and fix it. It’ll take time, but I likely can do it.”
That worked for them.
Tucking the picture into a messenger bag that Zayn was carrying, they kept moving through the house.
Maura was talking to them.
“That’s Richard Clark’s house. We know he’s in the picture. We just need to figure out who the rest of them are, and if they are still alive or dead.”
Zayn was curious.
“Who is the other dead Marine?” he asked. “With house number two?”
She clued him in.
“Thomas Lewiston is the other one who lived in the area. He’s going to be the next stop. Merry is running the names against the platoon records. Thankfully, Elizabeth got us access for those. I’m going to bet that everyone in that picture was in that one particular platoon.”
That made their lives easier having a list to work off of, and to cross off the victims.
From it, they knew the last two were dead.
As they kept looking through the house, they knew one thing.
“There are things missing,” Jinx admitted, using the photos. “Someone has been here after the man was killed,” she admitted. “I can see the evidence list, and they didn’t take things other than samples.”
That was odd.
Especially since he was likely killed for that crypto code.
“What’s missing?” Maura asked.
“Pictures on the walls, some books on the shelf, and…,” she didn’t get to finish.
“We have company,” Eve said, over the com. “You have two men that are in the back,” she whispered. “Advise. Do you want them in or dead?”
Zayn didn’t hesitate.
He slapped his hand over Jinx’s mouth, and pulled them into a corner where they could tuck away.
“Stay where you are, Eve,” Maura said. “Jinx and Zayn, if you’re in danger, contain them. Let’s see what they are doing there.”
Oh, likely the same thing they were.
Looking for fifty million dollars.
The cameras on their vests went on, and they could see that the two Marines were playing hide and seek.
With someone in there.
None of the Marines hiding spoke. Instead, they all listened.
“We had to have missed that key. We have to keep looking,” he said. “Until we find it, we have to recheck everything. You know what Von wants. If we fuck this up, we’re dead,” he said.
Yep.
They were right.
The two Marines, Richard and Thomas, had died because of that crypto key.
