Ian and Carter shared a glance for several minutes, in silent communication. The three women of Alpha Squad did the same thing, only difference their looks were almost of despair. After several minutes of making the three women squirm, Ian and Carter turned towards the three women and nodded their heads it agreement.
“We’ll do it. Detective Pratt goes in with us. Since we aren’t law enforcement, her attorney may use that in court to get whatever we get out of her thrown out.”
“Thank you, Ian. Thank you both!” Pratt happily smiled, nodding to her two teammates.
York walked back into the room, after she had stepped out briefly to take a phone call. “We have a problem.”
“Fuck!” echoed from Cortez and Pratt seeing the look in York’s face.
“Huh?” Highlander responded, hearing his wife’s huff.
“What?” Larry asked, confused by the outburst.
Pratt looked at York, both women with their hands on their hips. “Suicide?”
“Swift is going with homicide since she was placed in gen-pop instead of solitary as ordered.”
“I thought she was supposed to be in PC?” Cortez tried to confirm.
“She was, but we think she either bragged to someone that worked for Ares on the inside…”
“Or her court appointed attorney let Mr. Godfrey know that she was going to rat his client out.” Pratt finished for York, looking over at the men.
Ian pulled out his phone and sent Brody a text. I’m having Brody check into he jail staff and the court appointed attorney as we speak.”
“Can you have him check on Godfrey as well? He may be our other link to finding out who or what Ares is.” Cortez asked Ian, shrugging.
“Sooooo, at the risk of sounding repetitive, now what?” Alvarez asked the room, hands in the air.
Pratt, York, and Cortez held each other’s eyes for a moment before looking around the room. “We go back to the drawing board. Now we can help Brody and Nathan with the DVDs. Go back over the files and look into both Peter and Candy’s death. We still need to find Asia, as of right now, he’s our only link to Dakota’s disappearance.
“Let’s go back to the compound. We can get everyone, both my Alpha Team and Alpha Squad together with the rest of our guests, go over everything you have with fresh eyes. We can brainstorm everything. We will figure this out.” Ian told the group, determined.
“Pizza for dinner?” Cortez batted her lashes at Ian jokingly.
7
The next several days found Trident Security, Alpha Squad, Larry, Gene, Carter, and Alvarez working long, exhausting hours, brainstorming information, theories, going through the DVDs and the information Brody had come up with in the last few days.
Alvarez looked up from the file that she was reading to the room. “Who was it that Candy had kidnap the two girls?”
“Two guys were the main kidnappers. Asia Davenport, who is still in the wind and Peter Robinson who was gator bait the night several members of my team unofficially met Ian, Brody, and Marco. The leader of that pair is Jennifer Roberts.” Sgt. Brocard spared a quick glance over at Pratt at the same time the rest of Alpha Squad and Highlander did.
“Wait…” Gene startled as he looked towards Pratt, after a few moments he glanced to Larry before staring at Pratt again. “Fuck!”
Ian looked up at Larry and Gene confused at the same time Devon asked, “What’s wrong?”
Pratt sighed heavily as she got up from her spot on the floor that she had chosen earlier in the day to look at a stack of papers and began pacing.
“Jennifer Roberts is my stepsister. My parents divorced, then remarried. Jennifer is the daughter of my late stepmother who I killed seven years ago. She makes my sister Maria seem like a pauper.”
“Lass, Maria thinks she’s a queen.”
“Queen slut-bitch!” Diesel mumbled to herself.
“Does this Jennifer know you are on the case?” Alvarez questioned, narrowing her eyes at Pratt.
“More than likely…”
