considered telling her my story, but too many people already knew it. It was too risky letting someone else in, especially someone I didn’t know and trust.
Poor Huff. He’d been hacking away since the early hours and the man had to be exhausted. Only the excitement that glowed in his eyes said otherwise. He thrived on this. Raiden sat next to him, observing and commenting. Raiden was a computer whiz too, but Huff had hacking skills like no other.
Huff pointed to something. “Here. I have the current chain of command and it runs back three years. Looks like there was a change about a year ago. That was when he removed Danny. He and Aiden were at the top with two underbosses. They arrested one of them. And then one of the foot soldiers was Thomas, the one who was your fed, Isla.”
Raiden nodded. “Right. That’s when Aiden took it to a single silo. He’s been the only one heading the corporation since.”
It annoyed me not seeing what they were commenting on, so I stood behind Raiden. The diagram was actually there, and each block filled in with a name. “That was dumb of him.”
“What?” Raiden turned to ask.
“Writing in all the names.”
“True, but remember, he expected no one other than those he gave access to see this,” Raiden explained.
“I get that, but in case of a break-in, which is what we’re doing, it reveals everything he holds sacred.”
“Aiden is arrogant and believes he’s infallible.” Raiden was right. Aiden thought everything he did was perfect. We’d proven him wrong on most counts, since none of us were eating dirt yet.
Sinead overheard us. “He is the most arrogant man alive. According to my father, nothing on earth is superior to him.”
“We already figured that out,” I said.
“Let’s print this,” Raiden said. “Is there a printer around?”
“I believe so. Let me search,” Huff answered. He found one, added it and hit print. “Now to find it in the house.”
I went off in search of it and located it in the office. I pulled out the copies and looked at them. Listed were over twenty men we’d have to get, but it was workable. This could mean pulling a lot of drugs and guns off the streets. As I was scanning the document, Raiden walked in.
“What do you think?”
“I count twenty-three, which is doable. We need to find out where they’re located.”
“Huff is on it now.”
“This could be a real coup, bringing down the entire organization. And then Sinead could be free. What do you think?”
“She’s not happy with him,” Raiden said. Then he explained about her phone call. “When she hung up, her expression was frightening. I felt sorry for her.”
“Yeah, it has to be a bucket of cold water in the face when your father lets you know he doesn’t give a damn about your daughter.”
“I can’t imagine.” Raiden put his arms around me. “That will never happen to us.”
I stiffened in his arms. “What do you mean?”
“If we ever decide to have kids, my dad will love them with all his heart.”
“Er, what if we decide not to have them?”
“That’s fine too, but Scottie, I think we should wait to make that decision. You’ve been through a tough time and you may change your mind later.”
“And what if I don’t?”
“Then it’ll be you and me, babe.” He kissed the top of my head, which reassured me. I didn’t know what I wanted, except if I had another child, I couldn’t lose them. Not for anything. It would destroy the remaining pieces of me.
We took the papers to show the others. After another conversation with Sinead, we agreed to call the FBI and the US Marshalls the following day, after Huff did an exhaustive search on all Aiden’s files.
Early that evening, we got a call from one team that went to New York. O’Brien wasn’t there, but had been recently.
We asked Sinead if she thought he knew we were coming.
“I’m not sure. He’s a sneaky bastard. You should probably check this place for wires. That employee may have done it.”
“Why the fuck hadn’t we considered that?” I asked.
“We did. The place is clean,” Drex answered.
“Maybe he got it out of Cruze. His tactics are vile,” Acer said, and he would know. “They’ll drug, then question him. He’ll have no choice but to answer. Cruze may have disclosed that part to him.”
I asked Sinead, “Do you have any idea where he’d go next?”
“One of his other houses nearby or a hotel. He