♠ Balls to the wall ♠

“Well, if you had wanted me dead, you would have killed me before now and not gone to all this trouble to bring me here, that’s for sure.”

“You killed five of my best men,” snarled Noecker.

“You broke into my house!”

“Boys, boys. Calm down. Bigger picture here. But why, Connor, did you have to kill some of our best undercover operatives?”

“You’re screwed if they were your best.”

“We were collecting you for this mission, against my better judgement,” Noecker added. “Had to first see how rusty you were. If you died, you would have been no use to me anyway.”

“What? I thought you were after me because of the letter.”

Francina and Noecker exchanged confused looks.

“What letter?”

“One of your guys told me they had seen a woman in black jump over my wall and leave me a letter. That was the reason they were there.”

“Is one of our double agents a double-double agent?” asked Justin.

“A triple agent?” replied Francina. “Noecker, you need to find out what’s going on in your department.”

Noecker nodded. “It seems you can’t trust anyone.”

“Gertie, come here my girl.” Francina held her arms out and the two women embraced. “Are you hurt?”

“No mother, I’m fine.”

“Good. You know how valuable you are.” Francina withdrew from the embrace.

Connor looked from Francina to Gertie. “Mother?” He did some quick mental arithmetic. “Is she …?”

“Yours?” Francina finished the question for him.

Noecker lowered his aim slightly. “You won’t be needing those, then.”

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