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Of course, they already knew Belanfield was tied into Delor, which in itself wasn’t da evidence, since Belanfield was affiliated with several h that was bullshit, of course He was hired muscle, and obviously a hit man, since he was involved in Tom’s attempted murder

But there had to be ive them They had to find out as directly responsible for putting this together

"Got it," she said "Monty Richardson"

"Who’s that?" Mac asked

"He’s on the board at the o He was my contact, hired my firm to test the new security team they’d hired If you look at the chart here, he’s also on the Board of Directors for Delor Pharmaceuticals"

"So there’s your connection," Pax said

She nodded "He knew night security was lax at thesure it was tight The last thing he wanted was to have that artifact, aka the virus, stolen"

"Which is exactly what happened when Mac lifted it,"

Grange said

"They had to know that could happen, that soht be," Mac said

"And Richardson couldn’t afford to have anyone not affiliated with thesecurity It would arouse suspicion"

"Which meant he had to keep Belanfield outside," Mac said "Which I’d bet is exactly where he was He was the one who shot at us that night," he said to Lily

"Of course," Lily said "Belanfield saw you break in and take the virus It was his job as outside man to insure no one took it"

"And e disappeared with it, both Richardson and Delor were all over Belanfield’s ass, leading Belanfield to cli way," Mac said

"Well, aren’t you two popular," Spence teased

Mac laughed "Not in a anted to be"

"Okay, so noe have the players figured out," Lily said "What next? I assume we can’t just call in the cops with this infore said "We don’t have proof, just supposition But Delor’s corporate headquarters are here in Dallas Which means we need to set a trap, and we need to do this ourselves, under the radar, as always"

"My favorite part," Diaz said with a grin

"Okay, this is easy," AJ said "Bargain with the virus"

"How?" Mac asked

"Contact Richardson directly Tell hi to deal for ged "I don’t see why not Dirty guys like that think anyone can be bought for the right price I see it all the ti to contact him?" Rick asked

"I will," Lily said

"I don’t think so"

She looked at Mac "Why not?"

"Too dangerous"

She rolled her eyes "Are we going to do this again?"

"Lily This isn’t sical choice I already know him Richardson hired me Belanfield knows I hopped on the back of your bike after you took the virus"

"She’s right," Grange said "She is the logical choice as contact person"

Mac stood and brushed his fingers through his hair "I don’t like this"

"I know you don’t, but it makes sense I contact Richardson, tell hi to sell it to hiet it back Then all we have to do is wait and see what he does with it"

"Right," Spence said "And we’ll be there, ready to protect Lily as well as track Richardson"

"Exactly," Grange said

"I know It does make sense And of course we’ll expect hiht over to Delor Phar the blood rush through her veins She could hardly sit still "And then we soure out how to call in the authorities once we have Richardson tied firmly into Delor, with the stolen virus on the pree said

"But we don’t want to give hiht?"

"No, we’ll mix up a fake batch," Pax said "I’ll take care of that"

"Weird science in action," Spence said, rolling his eyes

"Try not to blow up the lab this time"

"That wasn’t my fault," Pax said

"There’s a story I want to hear soe stepped to the front of the classroon we need to do is have Lily make a call and see if Richardson will take the bait"

Lily nodded and looked up Richardson’s cell phone nuiven her when he’d hired her firm to test security She e listening in Richardson answered on the second ring