Viktor walked ahead of the group to check both Eric and Doug, making it look like las checking for weapons. The rest of us watched as their auras lit up while Kostya was fixing them. He made quick work of it. Luckily, neither man needed tooh work. Doug’s aura had started to heal itself after Stephen had scared off the demon that was trying to attach to him.
We weren’t sure exactly how it worked, but we were noticing that a person could heat their own aura, given enough time. It seemed to work even if the person wasn’t necessarily conscious of it needing to be done. Dario’s likely healed tremendly since he’d been hiding at the building. We were all surprised to see how strong it was when Andrei showed us, especially given how broken that man was when he first got back from Colombia.
To their credit, Eric and Doug were both good sports about being checked for weapon you’re still worried about two desk joc*eys,” Eric said, laughing quietly once Viktor
“One can never be too careful,” I said. “Tell me about your plan for Dr. Moretti.”
“I’m guessing you guys have enough firepower to level this building and Kostya were done.
Eric had a small smile on his face. “We’re getting closer to figuring out a way to chat him with the back-room procedures. We can’t find anyone else that can recognize him, but we have an extensive victim list, thanks to Dr. Williams at the herital. That, plus a money trail that we’re slowly uncovering points directly at Dr. Moretti. The brawn, as well as his very clear ties to Salvadori will land him in jail for sure. It will buy us some time to find more about the illegal procedures, which should keep him in jail.”
“With what you gave us on the connection to Salvadori and Dr. Moretti, it gives us rounds to look more seriously at the connection to Henry. I know you said he’s mostly been paid in cash, but there are still ways to find details. We’re working on that one, as well. It’s slightly more difficult, since Henry is trying to do the same to us, from his position,” Doug said.
I was quiet for a moment, making them think I was mulling things over in my head. They had not told me anything I didn’t already know, so far. “Niko and Vito are coming back within the next two weeks. They’re in need of more cash flow, so they’re coming back to try and force the underbosses to collect taxes. We need the people to stop it. They’ll be informed. They’re the reason the underbosses stopped in the first place. This gives you both an excellent opportunity to appear tough on crime. Dr. Moretti can be the first domino to fall, revealing the other connections to S and Henry once he’s in custody. The wild card in that scenario is Henry’s allegiance to Sal. If he uses the police to stop the people, the plan won’t work.”
Eric looked from me to Sephie, who was standing just behind me and between me and Ivan. “How much of this was your plan?” he asked her.
“It was a group effort,” she said.
“That job offer is still on the table,” Eric said. He looked to Doug, both of them thinking over the plan I had just laid out for them. They both nodded in agreement.
“I like it. I do, however, want your word that in the event that we get a judge that’s al’s pocket, unbeknownst to us, and the doctor goes free that you’ll take care of him,” the mayor said. “I don’t want him walking free in this city ever again.”
“That will not be a problem,” I said.
“Do you know when Niko and Vito are coming back?” Eric asked.
“No specific date yet, but we have people watching them. We’ll let you know as soon we know. Once they’re here, everything needs to happen quickly. Sal and Ricardo don’t need any extra time to react to what’s happening here,” I said. king round the clock to find a concrete connection between Henry and Sal
“We’re ready to move on Dr. Moretti as soon as you hand him over. We have people Once Henry goes down, most of the police chiefs go down with him, as well as his gulfriend,” Eric said.
“That does seem to be one of her favorite positions,” Sephie said, mostly under her bath, but still loud enough that we all caught it. We even heard Stephen Laughing through our earpieces
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“If anything changes, let us know. We’ll do the same. If you have any information we can use that links Henry and Sal, we’ll be happy to take it off your hands.” Eric said.
“Might be worth another look at Sal’s paperwork, “Ivan said silently. “Agreed.”
“We’ll take another look and see what we can find,” I said. Eric extended his hand to me. I felt Sephie’s hand gently grab my free hand when I went to shake hands with Eric, followed by Doug. She was borrowing my gift. She had likely been snoopire: through their heads the entire time and was making sure her assessment was correct. Since we’d dealt with so many betrayals, she liked to be as confident as possible in her opinion on someone. It meant using everything she had at her disposal to form that opinion.
As we walked back to the SUVs to leave, Stephen said in our earpieces, “Boss, get in the vehicles, but don’t leave until I say.”
“Is there a problem?” I asked.
“I’m not sure. Henry’s guys have reinforcements we weren’t expecting,” he said. “Eric leaving now. His usual tail is leaving with him, along with a few of the new guys.”
Doug had gone into the building before leaving, which meant we now had to wait for him to come back out and leave. There was only one entrance/exit into the parking garage, so we would be seen if we left before him, meaning Henry would be ble to piece it together that we were meeting with the mayor and the DA behind his back.
Viktor sent a quick message to both Eric and Doug alerting them to their newest addition in followers. We only had to wait a few minutes and Doug was back in the garage being picked up by his driver. We waited for Stephen to tell us whether all the tails outside left with him or not.
“Doug is leaving. His usual tail is gone. All but one tail left with the mayor. They suspect something is up. He’s waiting to see who else comes out of the garage,” Stephen said.
“Just one person? You’re sure?” Ivan said.
“Just one. He’s parked not far outside the entrance of the garage, waiting. He showed up with everyone else. They’re not discreet in the slightest. They all had a meeting on the sidewalk, then dispersed to their separate cars. He’s the only one left. Stephen said.
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