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them?”
    ‘They took off.”
    “Damn!”
    “Eagle One, Lone Wolf here. I have target. Do you copy?”
    “Copy, Lone Wolf. What’s your position?”
    “Alley behind Red Skies. The two birds drugged her and took off when I intercepted them.”
    “ Shit. Sending someone over now for pick up.”
    “Copy , Eagle One.”
    Dylan grabs her wrist, feeling for a pulse when our radios crackle again. It’s Colt.
    “Lone Wolf and Delta Mad Dog, Eagle One here. Abandon operation. I repeat. Abandon operation. You’ve got six, I repeat, six birds of prey surrounding you, of unknown ID. Get out of there!”
    “Lone Wolf here and that’s a negative. Target is down. Unconscious. Cannot abandon.”
    “Drex, get the fuck out of there.”
    “I said no!”
    Then I turn to Dylan and say, “Leave. Now. I’ll take care of her. Just tell them to try to pick me up somewhere.” He gives me a hard look. “It’ll be easier for me if I only have her and myself to worry about. Now go.” He nods and disappears.
    Whoever is closing in wants this girl, and something inside me is willing to go beyond the norm to help her. Yes, I’ve been trained for this. But there’s something else about her that begs to be saved. Call it intuition. Or call it my dick. Whatever. My arm coils around her waist and I toss her over my shoulder. She only weighs about one fifteen, if my guess is accurate.
    “Eagle One, direct me the hell out of here.”
    “You’ve got one block in any direction before you’re in contact so don’t use any streets. Back alleys and between buildings are your only options now.”
    “Copy. Lead the way.”
    And he does. I follow his directions and run as hard as I can, avoiding main streets, until he tells me I’m clear. Then he instructs me where to go for my pickup. When I get there, one of the guys is waiting in a black Tahoe. I toss my target in first and then hop in behind her as he speeds away, taking us back to our hotel.
     
     
    “Fuck you , Colt! I was not going to leave her there. And since when would you have done something like that? The Colton I remember would never have done that!”
    “Careful , Drex, you’re treading on very thin ice here.”
    “You think I care? What? You gonna fire me?”
    His lips thin and he rolls his shoulders. “Fuck!”
    “My thoughts exactly,” I say.
    “We have a huge issue.”
    Of all the things for him to say right now, that wasn’t one I expected. “Really?” I laugh. “Understatement of the year, Colt.”
    “No, you don’t get it, Drex. Thing is, we can’t ID her. None of our databanks have a goddamn thing on her.”
    “What the hell are you saying?”
    “Just that. She comes up as an empty sheet of nothing. She doesn’t exist. No name to go with the photo.”
    Reaching into my pocket, I toss him the driver’s license I pulled from her pocket. “See if this helps.”
    Colt checks it out for a second and nods. “Yeah, this should do it. But I still have a bad feeling about this.”
    “Why do you keep saying that?”
    “Because I’m going with my gut, man.”
    The air in the room just got a little thicker. “I need to check on her. I don’t have any idea how long she’ll be out or what they gave her. I have a feeling it was propofol or ketamine. She’ll probably be out for a while. You know, enough time for them to have gotten her out of the country. Did you ID those guys?”
    “Nope. We’re still trying to figure out who the hell the condors were.”
    “You have photos?” I ask.
    “Yeah, and video. And it’s not good.”
    “What’s that supposed to mean? Nothing in these cases is ever good.”
    “Listen, Drex, those first guys you chased off didn’t have anything to do with the birds of prey. I want you to look at something.” He brings up the video and I watch everything go down. Six men wearing masks swarm the alley and right after, two cars pull up. They start talking, very animatedly too.
    “No sound?” I ask, but I already know what