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“Not rude,” he said “But not possible”

“DNA?” Elle asked hopefully

David gave her a tiny s back to Joe “We scouted the periuards, more on rest There’s a blind spot in the southwest corner We can go up and over the wall there, but we’ll need to talk to so held”

“She’s in the basement,” Elle said

Joe smiled when sharp eyes zeroed in on the bubbly, blue-haired woman

“Southeast corner of it” Elle bea on a bare mattress I don’t know if she’s asleep or unconscious Thinking about any other options gives me the heebie-jeebies”

“You’ve got eyes in there?” David was fast reassessing his first impression of Elle

“It’s a what you can buy online these days,” Elle said “They even sell drones Teeny-tiny ones that fit in the palm of your hand”

“A drone won’t get you that inforuy wasn’t fooled, though—he’d learned fast that all was not as it seemed with their resident hacker

“No” She twirled one of her blue bunches “But it did e to locate the connector box for the internal security feed, and then Ryan there”—she gave Ryan a finger wave, and he saluted her—“cliee juave him inside the box From there on in, it was child’s play to hack their syste that, I had my drone scope around Did you know that there is a state-of-the-art warehouse about a et out of here, you could call up your boss and get so, because I think these guys uys Just sayin’”

David took a step towards Elle, as though fascinated by her “You hacked a state-of-the-art closed system?”

“Like it’s hard” She gave a snort “Now, about that DNA…”

With a shake of his head, David looked at Joe “Lake didn’t tell us you had this kind of skill on your team”

“Lake Benson tends to keep a lot of secrets,” Joe said drolly

Elle jumped up to sit on the bonnet of the vehicle they’d liberated from outside soine and it was in good condition It would get them back to the chopper They’d been forced to land several miles outside of town, so as not to alert the compound to their arrival