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He’d bet on it.
Corbin was pretty sure that wasn’t legal.
“With warrants?” he asked.
Oh, wasn’t the newbie all shiny like a newly minted penny?
“Yeah, Corbin, with warrants,” Gene said, knowing there wouldn’t be a single, solitary warrant to be found. If the newbie couldn’t figure that out, he wasn’t saying it out loud.
“Really?” he asked.
Ethan laughed.
“No. They’ll call them terrorists and lock them away until they talk. No one will see them unless they give up some of the good information.”
Greyson interjected.
“Maybe, or they’ll drop them in a grave somewhere in a foreign country, so no one finds them.”
Corbin looked horrified.
That’s when Gene shut that down. Someone needed to put that sympathy away for a bunch of rapists. Justice came in many shades of gray.
Not just black and white.
As soon as he learned that, he’d have a better chance at survival.
“Corby, remember how I said I was going to teach you the rules to stay safe and that I’d skipped a few but would get back to them?”
He nodded.
“Rule three. Always assume the government is just as guilty of every crime they are trying to shut down.”
Yeah, that sounded about right.
“Make sure you write the rules down,” Ethan said. “They’ll save your ass when you’re dealing with most situations.”
Greyson agreed there.
“So, I’m betting we’re the pick-up team,” Gene said. “My friend, who is also an agent, played reindeer games in Colombia. These drugs are bad. We have to do what we have to do so an out-of-control despot and a rape drug don’t hit the streets.”
Amen to that.
Then, something occurred to Ethan.
“I’m going to ask you a question, Corbin, and I need an honest answer. All of us here are your family, and we wouldn’t make you relive it if we didn’t have to.”
He tensed.
“What?” he asked.
Moving to sit next to Corbin, Gene picked up his hand and held it in his, as his partner tried to be delicate. They knew he’d been through it, but Corbin didn’t say what had happened.
Blackhawk went there.
“Did you have an overwhelming desire to have sex with any of them when they took you?”
Instantaneously, he went pale, and his hand went clammy.
