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“Agent Warez mentioned you’d be stopping by. Are either of you related to the driver?”
“He’s my twin.” Rush lowered the top of his body in through the driver’s door, throwing me a look as he began to feel around too. He immediately jerked his gaze back to me, pulling up Rian’s phone. I reached over, taking it and the bracelet with the tracker I found, shoving it in my pocket before I eased and stood. When I did, the FBI agent was staring at me oddly. He was sizing me up, curious about more than what I could even begin to guess on.
“Well,” I walked around the front of the sedan,” it was nice meeting you, Agent…”
“Sullivan. And not so fast. You’re helping with cybercrime, correct?”
“I am. Aren’t you working with them too? I mean, Agent Warez said you were a friend. I assumed that meant…”
I trailed off as the agent smiled. “Warez and I go back a ways. He’s in cybercrime; I run a terrorism task force.”
“Terrorism?” Agent Sullivan. Sullivan, why did I know that name? “I don’t understand. What does terrorism have to do with Rian’s accident?”
Rush’s head lowered, shaking as he glanced over to me.
“I’ve been working with Rian for a few years now. You can say he’s…” he paused, glancing to Rush, “a very loyal brother. He’s helped us secretly put away some very bad men. When he called me a few days ago and mentioned a possible connection to a case you all were working on with Warez, I decided I better look deeper into this cyber ring you’re trying to dismantle. Victus Antonov.”
My lip curled at his name. Agent Sullivan’s head cocked at my reaction, and he glanced back over his shoulder.
“Is that who’s men are sitting in the black car a quarter of a mile back?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“No?” The Agent shrugged. “I think you do. I also think you’re both in way over your head. I know this man. I know where he lives. I know the type of people who work for him, and what they drive. But he doesn’t go by Victus. That name is just a doorstopper. His real name is Vitor. He’s bad news, and your friend, your brother,” he said, looking at Rush, “is in a lot of trouble if they have him. Have they called yet?”
“No.”
“That’s even worse.”
My head shook. “How do know Vitor? From the terrorism unit?”
“We have a lot to discuss.” His hand came out. “My name is Gaige. Supervisory Special Agent Gaige Sullivan. If I know anything, it’s cartels and mafias. Things are changing concerning their line of business. We have a lot to go over, but we don’t have much time. Let me help.”
I shook his hand, watching as Rush did the same. I wasn’t sure what made Gaige Sullivan different than any other agent I’d come across, but my gut told me I should listen to him. He had V’s personal information, where I didn’t. If we were going to save Rian, I needed to know everything there was about the son of a bitch.
Chapter 38
Kody
“Kody, I don’t know what I’m looking for. Do we have a description of these men? Any of them?”
As my eyes scanned one of the cameras covering the main lobby, all I could do was shake my head. Tiffany was getting frustrated. We’d been watching the screens for hours, and the stress and silence from the men was taking its toll.
“Do we know anything? Should I be looking for a man in a trench coat? A suit? That one has a Hawaiian shirt on.”
I grabbed my third coffee, groaning as I rolled my neck, hearing it pop in my ears. Had I moved at all in the last hour? Two?
“We’re in one of the fanciest buildings in San Francisco. Suits and trench coats are a given. Hawaiian…sure. I don’t know, Tiff. It won’t be what they’re wearing. It’ll be their aura. The way they walk. It’ll be…” my eyes fluttered over, coming back to my friend. “Maybe this is a waste of time. All I know is I have to do something.”
“I know. It’s just, if I see one more person pick their nose or dig their underwear from their ass, I’ll scream. I feel useless. I’m so mad I didn’t ask more questions to Rian or Rush. Why did I do that? I went from fighting this whole thing to letting them pamper me and…buy me chocolate and…rub my feet. For once it was nice giving in to ignorance. But it was a mistake. After the poisoning, I should have pushed to know more. I should have been trying to help.”
My eyes rolled. “I tried that. Listen to me when I say there’snothingyou could have done. What Rian, Rush, and Jase were doing, normal people couldn’t do. Even those knowledgeable with computers wouldn’t have stood a chance trying to help. It would have slowed them down. Now could we have asked for more information, sure. I doubt they would have talked about it openly. They’ve done nothing but try to shield us. They wouldn’t have told us much.”
“I suppose.” Tiffany let out a breath, glancing back to the screen. When her posture stiffened, I tried to see what she was looking at.
“What is it?”
Her hand rose as she pointed to one of the smaller monitors below the main one.
