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“It’s the only way that you could possibly begin to redeem yourself after everything that you and your team have done,” I reply bluntly.
He’s silent for a while as he thinks, and I let him. I let him truly think about what he’s done, the amount of people he’s put in danger, the fact that his family was never in any danger and that if he’d made one single different choice and told Mr R everything, as soon as he was aware, then this could’ve gone entirely different.
Finally, sounding defeated, he gives me two locations.
“The first one is where I remember the warehouse being. I would be very surprised if he’s still there. He moves around a lot, and after what happened at the retreat, he would’ve moved everything to a new location. The second is somewhere that I heard mentioned when I was in the warehouse, and Mr Hunt was not happy at all that I heard it.” He explains.
I nod, seeing that he shuts down completely, and I’m not going to get anything else out of him. That’s okay though. I’ve got more than enough, including two locations that we can now investigate and which will hopefully give us even more clues on the whereabouts of Rylie and help us to take down Erebus.
There’s no doubt that he needs to be taken out for once and for all. He’s too dangerous and too powerful.
Walking out of the room, I close the door behind me, making sure that it locks securely.
“Well, that was interesting,” Jynx says as she and Ever walk out of the door next to the room I just came out of.
“Tell me about it. He told me plenty of information to help us though,” I reply.
“You were impressive.” Ever compliments me, making me smile.
“Thank you, Princess. What he said about the families concerns me. I read in his file about his family, but I have no idea if any of his other team member's families are okay.” I explain.
“When did you read his file?” Ever asks curiously as we start the long journey back to Mr R’s office.
“Last night, I had Trick get it for me before bed.”
“Good thinking, dude,” Jynx comments with a smile.
“Yeah, that was a brilliant idea.” She then continues, “We spoke to Mr R, and he’s looking into it now. He’s also looking into the other team member's families and trying to see if they’re all safe like Gauld’s seem to be or if we need to rescue more people,” Ever tells me, a frown on her face.
“Good. Hopefully, it will be a similar situation to Gauld’s, and everyone is safe,” I reply with a frown, not liking the idea of civilians being involved. “Did you fill him in on the rest of the information we found too?”
Jynx nods, “Yeah, we told him that we’ll be looking into the two locations he gave us to see if there is any information there for us and if there’s any link to Rylie, too. So, we don't need to stop by his office before we leave.”
“Good. Alright, let's get home and fill the others in on what we found out. We need to work out where we go from here.” I reply thoughtfully.
“My men are already at your place; they said something about being bored at home,” Jynx replies, rolling her eyes.
“Sounds about right,” I chuckle.
Once we’re in the car and driving away from headquarters, Ever pulls out her phone, and I look at her curiously.
“It’s Raiden.” She tells me, without me having to ask her.
Ever
“Is everything okay?” I ask, without saying hello and putting it on speaker so that the others can hear what’s being said, just in case it’s an emergency because it will save time if I don’t have to explain it again.
“Whoa, okay, Ever you need to calm down just a little bit,” Zemi’s slightly amused voice comes over the phone. “Are you okay?”
“Sorry, yeah, I’m okay. How are you guys doing? How’s Raiden and Saint?”
“We’re fine,” Raiden’s grumbling voice comes over the phone, sounding thoroughly fed up.
Chapter Fifteen
“You sound about as fed up as Jensen is,” Atlas points out with an amused smile.
“Don’t, man, I’m going out of my fucking mind and everyone’s fussing,” Raiden replies with a huff.