Page 145 of Allegiance

“I didn’t personally send children. I heard from my partner that they were also dealing in them too.”

Jagger got closer.

His face was inches from the man’s.

“If you have any sense, you’re going to own this now because as a parent, as every one of us in this room is, we’re going to punish you in ways you can’t imagine.”

That worked.

“Cecil told me that he was told if we were called to a report, and the woman who called us had a kid…we could take them both, and we were to.”

Jagger said nothing.

“Apparently, the modeling agency was preying on single women and if a single mother came in, and she had kids, they took the kid and separated them. The kid went to one location and the mother to another.”

And that was a fate worse than death.

All the mothers moved closer.

Rogue was honest.

Oh, Jagger had been wrong. It wasn’t going to be the men who had at Stellan.

It was going to be the women.

“See the nice ladies?” he asked. “They don’t take kindly to what you just said. You’re about to get fucked up, and we don’t feel sorry for you.”

Maura composed herself and grabbed him by the shirt. She was ready to end him.

“Where are they?” Maura asked, knowing they had to shut this down ASAP.

In that moment, their priorities shifted. There wasn’t time to find Chevy. They had to make sure they deconstructed his businesses first so that no more women were preyed upon—or the children.

Stellan shook his head.

“I don’t have the information. The guy who brought us in keeps track. He doesn’t trust the man doing it, and he is keeping records to make sure we don’t get burned.”

Well, they had bad news.

He was burned.

Maura’s hand went to his throat, and she began squeezing until his eyes went huge.

“Do you think I’m standing here for my own sake?” she asked. “I suggest you give me his name.”

The man nodded, and when Maura released his throat, he spilled it.

“Tate West.”

Well, no shock there. He was on the list.

They had to find that man to get the list of women and children. Then, they had to get that list to Elizabeth ASAP. They might still have a chance at a recovery mission if there were Marines on the ground in those countries.

Maura pulled out her phone and made a call to the one person who might know who that was.

Well, the two people.

When Gene’s face came on the screen, she cut to the chase.