“What did you find out?” Billy asked Lynch and Tazer.
“This guy Lenny is a fucking loser. Colton hired him to basically assist in getting Missy Ann to the side of the building so he could snag her. What we found out was that Colt works for Darius Lontell. Lenny was kind enough to tell us that Darius is involved where we can find him and where Colt was taking Missy Ann.”
“What? How the fuck did you do that?” Salvatore asked Tazer.
“Lynch and I have our ways. Somers is gathering what we need and working with the feds. It seems they have eyes on them and something is going down this Saturday night at his penthouse,” Lynch told them.
“Pent house? Where do they live?” Antonio asked.
“New York. Pack a bag, we leave in less than an hour,” Tazer told them.
“New York. They fucking took her to New York. Jesus, what are they planning on doing with her?” Billy asked as they gathered their stuff, prepared to head home and then meet up with the others.
Finn and Salvatore followed Tazer and Lynch out of the office. Finn grabbed onto Tazer’s arm.
“Tazer, why are the feds watching this guy, Darius? What’s happening this weekend?”
Tazer looked at Lynch. “We’d want to know if it were Eliza Grace,” he said.
“A bunch of big shot businessmen are coming in. Darius is throwing this big party at this penthouse and the feds believe it’s a meeting of sorts to discuss the sale of merchandise,” Tazer said to him.
His eyes widened. “What does that mean?” he asked.
“Women. They’re selling women,” Lynch said and Finn just stared at Tazer.
“I know. We’ll get to her in time. We’ll find out what these men want and why they took her. We find her before they can hurt her.”
“We’re not coming back without her, Tazer. Find out where they’re keeping her. Please.”
* * * *
They landed in Newark International airport and were headed to the meet-up location, a hotel and suite a few blocks from Darius’s penthouse. There were men and women in position, agents working undercover as wait staff, along with people from the catering company. Things were being verified, who was showing up. The feds were working on getting some ears inside of the penthouse and Darius’s office.
Salvatore was shocked at the extent of the operation and how many agents were actually working undercover. This was a huge deal, and now that Somers found out this Ukrainian national was going to be there he was happier than a pig in shit. Apparently this guy was bad news. He had connections to the Sovolo family, their number one suspect in a series of murders, money laundering and high priced prostitution. They basically sold young women off as servants and sex slaves for large amounts of money. The women had to have a certain look, and they paid more for virgins. But mainly Somers was after this Anatoli guy and Oscar Sovolo for the murder of several federal agents. Salvatore released an unsteady sigh. Missy Ann was caught smack in the middle.
“Finn, Salvatore, Somers said one of these guys that he’s after, a Ukrainian national, just arrived at his hotel downtown. The party starts in two hours,” Lynch told him.
“Two hours? So we have to wait? We know she’s in there. We know what these men are planning and your agents say women are arriving, too.”
“Do you see the size of that penthouse? The blueprints show two floors. We have over thirty men on standby and we could still fuck this up. This is Somers’ case. We have to follow his directions and orders,” Lynch told them.
“Fuck,” Finn said.
Salvatore checked his weapon again.
“We are going to have to move like lightning when we get up there. Our inside people will be wearing purple name tags, not black. You’re going to have to check first before you shoot so we don’t take out the good guys,” Lynch told them.
“Great, and how will they know who we are?” Salvatore said.
“You get to wear one of these special Federal agent jackets,” Tazer told them.
“Great, they’ll see us from a mile away,” Salvatore said.
“You’re not even supposed to be here. So don’t get fucking shot,” Tazer teased him.
“Me, what about you? How is Eliza Grace going to feel when she finds out what you and Lynch have been up to?” Salvatore asked.
“She’ll be fine as long as we get to Missy Ann in time and that you two come back in one piece,” Lynch said.