Page 286 of Allegiance

“She is pretty loyal to Cruz since she thinks it’ll get her somewhere. From what I’ve heard, she has a ‘contract’ that she’s working off the next year. That’s a lot of sex, and I hear he’s brutal.”

Maura was working on the plan on the fly, simply because she was scribbling things down.

Numbers.

She was running statistics.

“We need to hire her under the guise that we’ve heard she knows Cruz and Chevy. We want to infiltrate that building and get her to tell us if he’s inside. That’s it.”

They all listened.

“We’ll tell her then we need her to come out and let us know if he’s there. We want her to warn him. We want him to ambush us.”

She lifted a brow.

“For enough money, she’ll definitely bite. Will she betray him? That’s fifty-fifty. If she thinks it’ll get her some advantage from him too…yes.”

“I’m willing to take the chance. If she comes out and says he’s in there, we’ll strike. There’s no doubt he knows where to find Chevy.”

Calyx understood the urgency. The city was about to be hit with something, and soon. She could see the signs.

“I’ll be more than happy to help.”

Maura figured as much.

“Where is this going?” Stella asked. “I don’t like the vibes I’m getting from ‘need her to betray us’,” she admitted.

Maura told them.

“We’re going to park a car outside, and he’s going to make a move on it. The people in the car, the bait, are going to be taken. They will be brought to Chevy.”

EVERYONE GASPED.

Well, everyone but Jagger.

“I know,” she said. “And here is where it gets bad. This is the part that I don’t like,” Maura admitted. “Those people are nothing more than a distraction to keep Chevy and Cruz busy. Myself, Jinx, and Eve will be getting them out. We’re going to track them to the nest, so to speak.”

Eve was honest.

“They’ll scan them for trackers. They might even move them in a different vehicle.”

She glanced over at Remmy.

“Do you have the items I asked Elizabeth for?” she inquired.

He nodded.

Then, he went to his bag and pulled a box out. One would think it was a box with a necklace in it since it was the same size, but when he popped it open, there were four pills. They were large pills, but they were pills none-the-less.

She explained.

“Those are CIA trackers. They don’t turn on until the coating is dissolved in stomach acid. The bait will swallow them, and as soon as they’re moved on, they will likely be scanned. They won’t be live, so they won’t register.”

Zayn stared at them.

“And if that goes horribly wrong?” he asked.

She focused on Remmy.