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BrodyKylie was right about everything. I need to get her a tracker today in the form of some sort of jewelry. I'm going to call Brandt to see who installed his security system. He, Honey and the kids live in a house out on the water and have a decent system that someone was able to bypass at one time. Brandt has since upgraded that shit and his house is like Fort Knox now. He also built a safe room after everything went down with Honey when they first got together. I put that call on my mental to-do list.I parked at the curb to Analiese's house and got out of the truck. I wonder what Oscar needs to talk with Analiese about. I mean I can guess, but I want to hear the words. It might help our planning strategy. Besides, since this all just happened, I'm fairly sure he doesn't know about Edgar yet. Everyone is in for a nasty surprise when we tell them about that.We greet each other with a fist bump and I immediately explained that Edgar is out on bail. We have to assume he will try aga
KylieI lay in my bed after we got back to the house. Eyes wide open, staring at nothing. I thought about Analiese and Oscar. He stepped up in such a way that he couldn't back down. He'd admitted his feelings right in front of her father. That was bold for a guy who didn't want to have anything to do with her for two years.I wanted to call her and get all the details, but they were probably still talking and working things out. Brody was out there talking to the new guard and I had a feeling things would be way different than they were before. I was going to be on total lock down from now until Edgar was behind bars for good.I called Mr. Rodriguez and told him that I wouldn't be coming to work any time soon. He told me that Brody had been keeping him updated and not to worry about my job. It would be there when I was able to come back. I thanked him and hung up before I could start crying. What a nice man. I was surrounded by good people here, and I wondered why I never came back her
BrodyKylie came out of her room after a while and told me her mom was on the way. I thought that was odd because after that first meeting with her to go over the credit card statements she had not come around. Kylie explained that she had called her to ask about Edgar. What she knew about the type of man he was and his business dealings. I guess that was a good idea. I just hope that Gwen is forthcoming and not trying to hide anything anymore. It was actually a good idea to get her talking about him. Anything she knew could help us predict what he might do next. We didn't even know if he would try to come after Kylie again. We had just decided not to take any chances.Gwen arrived about an hour later. It was getting later in the evening and I had finished setting up all the hardware. I just needed to d******d some software to my computer, so I could monitor everything from a cental hub. I'd also make sure that everything was recorded, so if we were attached again we would have video e
KylieMy mother stayed and chatted with me for a while after that. It felt like it used to before I went to college. She was involved in my life and I was in hers back then. She wasn't perfect, but she was my mother, so I let her distract me. She talked about mutual acquaintances and who divorced whom. It was surprisingly nice, if perhaps a bit mundane.I wasn't ready to forgive her, but at least I understood her better now. During a pause in our conversation, I asked one question that I hadn't planned to ask, but I had wondered about throughout the years."What happened between you and Dad?" I said.I watched her face fall. I could tell she didn't want to answer, but then she sagged. Her whole body seemed to deflate."Your father is a good man. The best sort of man. He stayed with me when I got pregnant with you. I knew I wasn't the love of his life, but he did right by us. He worked a lot of overtime and provided for us but I could tell he didn't love me. Not the way I thought I want
BensonIf this was a laughing matter, I would have fallen off my seat in hysteria. Both Brody and Kylie had called me about a similar matter. Brody wanted to set a trap for Edgar and Kylie wanted to use herself for bait. Neither one of them knew that the other one had called me, which was the funny part. The not so funny part was that they both had a point. At this juncture, we had pretty much determined that Edgar was the type of fucker that would try again. He was both rich and arrogant enough to think he could get away with it. We would be ready when he did.I got up from my desk and left my office. Neither Eileen nor I were in the bullpen any longer, each of us had our own spaces. Though only feet apart from one another, sometimes it felt like we were worlds away. I wanted to get this case wrapped up, and take her on our date to the club. I was ready for some serious downtime with my favorite girl.I knocked on her open door when I reached her office, but it was only so I didn't sc
ShawI haven't done any undercover work in years. I'm gearing up for my first one since I had the kids. It's been over ten years now but I'm not nervous. It took a few days, but the plan is solid and Ben is out there along with our best field guys and Spence, the IT guy. Kylie and I are in a salon. Waiting for go. If Edgar is in the vehicle we spotted trailing Kylie here, then game over. We arrest him on the spot. If he's not in the van, which we suspect will be the case, then they will trail me. Hopefully he will be wherever they are taking me.Our surveillance on the house in the woods showed that the place had been used recently but no one was there now and we were out of options. Edgar and his gang of traffickers needed to be taken down. Kylie, Analiese and every other girl in the nation wasn't safe as long as he was running around doing whatever the fu8k he wanted. If he was in his right mind, he would have left the area and forgotten all about Kylie. His obsession with her was go
BrodyI collected Kylie from the back door of the salon. Cross was waiting at the truck just in case those traffickers realized this whole thing was nothing but a ruse and came back for her. We left without incident and went back to the house. Kylie called Analiese, but there had been no movement at her place. Stern was there with Oscar and Bill, Analieses's father. They were all armed and ready if anything went down.Analiese had insisted that Stern be the guard there. He was cleared to go back to work within a few days of the incident. I wasn't sure why she decided that. Maybe she wanted him to have a second chance. No question that Stern was good at his job and I had a feeling he wasn't going to be made to look like a fool twice. He'd be extra vigilant. That is exactly what Analiese needed.I felt bad because Oscar had to take the day off and I hadn't been back in over a week myself. I assumed they were short-handed at the Club. I'm pretty sure at this point that Brandt and Daniel
BensonMy mom had the kids today so that was one less worry. It was bad enough that I was sitting down the road from the house that Eileen had been taken to. I'd bitten all my fingernails to the quick and was working on chewing off all the hang nails I had caused because of it. We had heard everything Eileen had told us. Her mic and tracker worked great. The property they had brought her to was a large ranch home. At least it was at one time. They had been squatting in it. It had been in foreclosure proceedings for the last few years. That meant no paper trail and without this operation in place, we never would have found it. We could hear a generator going and knew that is how they were getting their power.We had the blueprints and knew what room she was in from the hints she had given us. We had our team surrounding the place, but we were waiting for the 'boss' to arrive. It was pretty clear from what Spence had dug up that Edgar was not the boss. The things that the goons had told