Free Closer by Sarah Greyson Page A

house was filled with weaponry in every corner and every cabinet. All of it would come in handy for this mission.
    They were missing Kevin, but they couldn’t call him in on this. They all worked private security, except Kevin. Kevin was with Homeland Security. For what they had in mind, they needed to stay off the radar.
    Michael and Rob briefed the men on what they needed to know. They told them how a terrorist cell had kidnapped Lizzie and forced Rob to find a way to deliver Emma and her knowledge of the biochemical weapon delivery system. They revealed Michael and Emma’s plan to kidnap the terrorist waiting on Emma at the drop point. They filled their brothers in on the events that led them to that exact moment.
    “Tony? How are you with a Dell laptop?” Michael asked.
    “All I need is an internet connection. The equipment doesn’t really matter,” Tony explained. Michael pulled Rob’s laptop out of his case and handed it to Tony.
    “All I have is a license plate number. I need you to get me every possible piece of information you can from that. Can you do it?” Michael begged.
    “Can I do it? Can I do it?” Tony bantered. “Give me the number,” he demanded, all joking aside, as he sat down and went online.
    In under three minutes they had a name, Special Agent Daniel Ingrams with the CIA.
    “Why would the CIA kidnap Emma? If they wanted the prototype she was working on, all they had to do was go through the proper channels to get it,” Michael wondered as he paced back and forth in front of Rob’s bay window.
    “What do you want me to find next? Bank statements? Property listings?” Tony asked.
    “Yes,” Michael replied.
    Over the course of the next hour they had Ingram’s bank statements, his real estate holdings, and even his career achievements with the CIA.
    “I hate to ask this of you Tony, but I don’t see how it can be avoided,” Michael grumbled.
    “Just spit it out. You know I will do it,” Tony demanded.
    “I know, that’s why I hate to even ask,” Michael warned. “I need you to hack into the CIA database and find out what Ingrams was working on? What he would possibly want with Emma?” Michael pleaded.
    “The CIA, that’s going to be tough. For anyone that isn’t me,” Tony quipped.
    Michael smiled. He knew he could count on his brothers. This breach took longer than the last several. It was two more hours until Tony had information for Michael and the Unit.
    “It doesn’t look good brother,” Tony said as he stood so Michael could sit down and view what Tony had been looking at. Michael inhaled deeply as he realized the amount of shit they were in.
    Michael explained to his brothers exactly what Tony had found. Special Agent Daniel Ingrams had lost a friend in Algeria to the GIA. He had worked the terrorist case for the last three years until about eight months ago when the CIA closed the case and handed the file to a junior agent to monitor chatter.
    “So he is using Emma to get to the GIA?” Steve interjected.
    “I don’t think so,” Michael responded. “Before he took her, he said he was going to kill her,” Michael said as dread crept up his throat.
    “If Ingrams kills Emma, the GIA will kill Lizzie. We have to stop him,” Rob exclaimed visibly shaking as he raked his hand through his hair. Lizzie was his life. She was all he talked about while on missions; getting home to his Lizzie.
    “Damn right we have to stop him,” Michael muttered more to himself than to his brothers. He couldn’t tell his brothers he had fallen in love with a woman over the course of two days. They would call him crazy. Still he knew he loved her. He knew it the moment Ingrams pointed a gun to her head. She created a paradox for him. Not only did she calm him, but erotic images she set off in his imagination were driving him nuts. She affected him the way no one else could.
    “So how do we find him?” asked Tony.
    “We follow the money. He has to have her stashed someplace.