He had been the one that thought it would be a good idea to bring Senator Blakely in on all this. But the senator wasn’t interested in getting his hands dirty on this one. He just stole the lab results and locked them away. No one had thought of killing Blakely to get that information back. We all assumed he would be a thorn in our side that we would just have to deal with. Now, it appeared we were in deep shit.
“That doesn’t mean he’ll figure anything out,” Senator Allen pointed out.
“You don’t understand,” Brunswick said angrily. “This guy isn’t just some random citizen that we can intimidate. He’s a former assassin. He’ll kill off anyone that he sees as a threat. If he even sees you coming down the street, he’ll gut you like a pig and send you back as a message.”
“So we kill him first,” Senator Cortez said. “We kill him and we chop off the head of the snake.”
“He has proof of what we’re doing,” I reminded him. “Even if we kill him, we don’t know who he’s talked to or showed that paperwork. We need those documents and we need to bring him in to interrogate him.”
“He’s got security all around him. He rarely leaves the Reed Security property, and even when he does, you won’t get the drop on him. He’s way too good.”
“Then what the fuck did we hire security for?” Samuelson barked. “Send them onto the property at night and kidnap him.”
Brunswick chuckled and pulled up another screen on the computer to show us. “This is the Reed Security property. They have sensors around the entire property, which happens to be several miles in all directions. They were involved in a war with the cartels a few years back and have since barricaded themselves in so they’re ready for any attack. All employees live on the property so they’re ready at a moment’s notice. They have mounted machine guns and drones that continually scan the property and look for threats. They have the firepower of a small country on that property. There is no slipping in and kidnapping him.”
“What about the family?” Senator Allen asked.
My head snapped to face her and I slowly shook my head. “No, we aren’t going after his family. Are you trying to start a war before we even launch? You heard the man, he’s surrounded by security. He’s a former assassin. Do you want him coming after you in your sleep?”
“If we take his family, we expose his weakness. He’ll be so devastated over the loss that he’ll do anything to get them back.”
“That’s where you’re wrong,” Brunswick said. “If you go after his family, I can guarantee that he will come after you and take out not only you, but everyone you love. This will not end in us getting what we need.”
“I agree.”
“I say we put it to a vote,” Senator Allen said.
“No,” I said firmly. “We don’t do anything to draw more attention to ourselves unless necessary. We don’t know that he’s even put anything together based on the information he has. If something comes of it, we can make that decision then, but we will not risk everything now when we have no information on what he knows.”
“And what if he goes to someone?” Helen asked.
“A former assassin? A man that is doing his best to lay low? You think he’s going to ruin all that, get sent to prison all to talk with someone in power that might rat us out? Based on what?” I asked. “He has nothing right now. Let’s not poke the hornet’s nest.”
“We know where he is,” Brunswick said with a nod. “I think our best course of action right now is to wait and watch. We know he’s at Reed Security. If we find an in, we take it, but unless we find out that he knows something, we move on with the project as planned.”
“Alright,” I said, standing up, “now that we have that cleared up, let’s move on with the meeting.”
I saw the fear in the others’ eyes, so it was best to push this aside like it didn’t matter. We would continue to monitor the situation, but I couldn’t have them dwelling on it. Fear made people do stupid things, and I couldn’t afford for any of them to be stupid right now.
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