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“Do you mean me or Joe?”

“Both I think they’ve taken hi you’ll come to his rescue”

I couldn’t sit still any longer, so I began to pace as I talked “Joe had the address for a warehouse in his case notes Do you think that’s where they’ve taken him?”

“I think it’s likely”

“Then we need to go”

Angelo grabbed my arm

“I know you’re eager to find hiio said, “but we have to approach this carefully”

“The longer ait, the less chance there is of finding Joe alive” I knee needed to think this through, but my instincts told me Joe needed me now

“They won’t kill hie”

“What do they want from us?” Lucien asked

“I’oal is to turn you or to destroy you,” X said “They’re opportunistic enough that their goals ain information and power The anization, the happier they are”

“This isn’t just about trafficking, is it?”

“No, it’s much broader than that”

Lucien’s phone beeped, and he looked down “I’ve received sche we need to plan a raid We have video confirht into the warehouse early this ”

Eh quickly He’d been the one to initially connect otten information from X? “Was the man you saw okay?”

Lucien glanced at me, then back down at his phone “Unconscious but presumed alive”

I zoned out for aapart anyone who’d hurt Joe When I could focus again, X was explaining that we needed to take out Swain if at all possible Lucien was coether Swain’s whereabouts for the last day

“I don’t want to wait We need to get Joe out now,” I said “If I have to, I’ll do it alone”