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“None taken.”
“No. Too risky. The Syndicate knows what we all look like,” Evan added.
“Well, if Tony can go undercover, so can I,” Liza simpered.
“Tony’s an actor. You can’t act for shit,” he shot back.
“She doesn’t need to act. She just needs to dance,” Misha said. “Can you dance? Shake your ass, you know, that sort of thing.”
“Babe, when men see me naked, they fall to their knees and weep. When they see me naked dancing… let’s just say we’d better have the paramedics on standby. Give me a wig, some clever makeup, and I’m there.”
It was Griffin who pointed out the obvious fact they’d all missed. “The lust in that club will make you physically sick.”
“Come on, it’s not that bad,” Liza drawled. “I’ll be fine.”
“Don’t be angry at me, Wyatt,” Misha said. “I think it could work. I can handle it.”
“No.” Wyatt couldn’t accept it. She was right. He hardly knew her, and he could lose Misha before he’d had a chance to keep her. But with the look of defiance and stubbornness in her eyes, he knew if he didn’t agree to this, he’d lose her anyway.
Shit.
And that’s when the knowledge settled on him.
He didn’t trust her. Not yet.
Wyatt turned on his heels and stormed out of the room.
Twenty-Nine
After seeing Wyatt storm out,Misha turned to his family, pleading. “You know me going back is a good idea. I know that club like the back of my hand. I know Dimitri’s every mood, where he keeps his ledger book, and… I can’t explain it. I just know I can handle him. I’ll be safe.”
She hated the feeling of guilt churning in her gut. She had to do something to help.
Parker rubbed the bridge between his eyes. “You probably can, but we won’t go in blind. Sloan, hack the club’s CCTV. Deep dive into Dimitri’s financial records. Let’s put him under the microscope. There has to be a reason he’s working with the Syndicate. Maybe we can find a trail that will lead us right to them.”
Sloan whined, but one cutting glance from her intimidating eldest brother, and she shut up. She pulled out a laptop from between couch cushions and opened it. “On it.”
“Evan, Griff, I want you shadowing Dimitri’s men and the Faithful at the club. See if you can find another base of operations. One thing we learned from Sara’s time as a member of the Faithful was that they hole up somewhere to plan. She had a nest, remember?”
“That’s right,” Evan said. “She took me to her dingy room where she kept notes and surveillance gear. She was a cloned replicate, though. I destroyed them. Would all Faithful act the same as the clones? Some of them are just normal people working for the Syndicate.”
“That's what we assume. But we could be wrong. We won’t know unless we follow them. At the very least, one of them might lead us back to the Syndicate’s base of operations. We know they’re working out of the city somewhere.”
Griffin nodded grimly. “They’ve got serums and other biological weapons in production. We saw what a couple of injections did to Lilo’s ex, Doppenger. It gave him super strength, speed and even the ability to sense sin.”
“We need to get on this right away.” Mary stepped forward. “I’ll get Tony in for a debrief.”
“Lilo,” Parker continued. “We appreciate your offer to join Misha, but we’re going to need you on standby to feed anything we find to the networks.”
“I thought we were doing this the right way,” Liza added. “What do you need the networks for?”
“Sometimes the right way doesn’t work. If that happens, I want every newspaper or station in the country publishing the Bratva’s dirty laundry. Your department is full of dirty cops, Liza. We can’t be sure their crimes will go unpunished if Dimitri is captured through the proper channels.”
“That’s why I’m going in with Misha,” she replied. “I’ll make sure he receives justice.”
“It might not be enough. Between us, we’ve got some of the smartest minds and strongest warriors in the world. I’m done being one step behind the Syndicate.” Parker turned to Misha. “For now, you sit tight. I’m not going to be responsible for Wyatt losing his mate. If we do this, we do this right.”
Once he was finished barking orders, he picked up a bite to eat and casually nibbled. “Oh, and before I forget, I’ve hired a security firm to protect our public establishments. They’ll be setting up shop across the street. We’ll be meeting them in a few weeks. Lilo’s kidnapping on the opening night of Hell made it glaringly clear we can’t be two people at once. We can’t be the Deadly Seven and our public identities at the same time, so for all the times we need to maintain our cover, we’ll use the firm as protection.”
