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The building where the three of them lay on the roof watching was far enough away that anyone looking from down below wouldn’t see them, especially at night.

“Guards are going back to the security room now they’ve done a pass through. My estimate is that they’ll do a sweep maximum of every half hour.”

“Let’s go.” Waggs was on his feet and heading for the stairs.

They’d already planned the where and why and everyone knew their role. Waggs jogged across the back of the yard with Decker covering his six. Liam was going to check the containers that were loaded and ready to go. It was nearing the end of the month and they expected over the next few days to find some increased movement at the yard overnight which was why they were moving now, when they’d rather have waited.

When Waggs reached the cabin, he took out his lock pick and quickly opened the door. Decker slipped in behind as the two men used pen lights to work. They needed to find anything they could to link Ralph or his father to the trafficking or any other evidence of a crime.

Ignoring the file cabinets that were accessed by general staff, they targeted the managers’ offices and any locked drawers or safes. Moving quickly, they tried to make sure nothing was disturbed which made this job longer than he wanted but they didn’t want to give anyone the heads up more than necessary that they had been here.

Finding a locked drawer in Jerry Edwards office, Waggs swiftly worked it open. He found some receipts for hotels and a safe deposit box and dismissed them. The receipts were more than likely an affair, and the safe deposit box would take too long to access. Working his hand around the back he smiled when he found what he was looking for.

A slip of paper with a code written on it—it had to be the safe.

“Deck, I got the code for the safe. You find anything?”

Deck moved over from the filing cabinets, shaking his head. “Don’t think so but I took some pictures of anything remotely interesting just in case.”

“Can you get into his computer while I check the safe?”

Decker eyed the desk top computer. “I’ll try.”

“Three minutes, guys. We have movement out here.”

Waggs shifted to the safe and quickly opened it using the code, mentally rolling his eyes at the mastermind for leaving it there in the first place. Opening it slowly, he saw a couple of piles of cash, a handgun, and a file. Passing over the cash and gun, he went for the file. Something was important enough to protect in there and he wanted to know what it was.

Taking out a pile of photographs, he locked his jaw and curbed his violent reaction when he saw an image of his Commanding Officer from the Green Berets in a compromising position with a girl that looked barely legal, and certainly not complicit in the sex act she was performing. He flicked through and his heart stuttered to a stop.

“Motherfucker.”

Rage almost blinded as he looked down at the image. He felt Decker step up next to him but couldn’t speak, such was his fury. An image of the same Commanding Officer, Nick Green, talking to the men who had watched and smirked just before Aaron was blown up. The next image was just as bad, showing Nick handing something over to one of the men. He’d never forget their faces as long as he lived.

Decker took the images and snapped pictures on his phone of every one of them before he slid them back in the file and put it back in the safe. He then sent the pictures to Waggs. “Time to go. I think we have enough for now.”

Waggs snapped out of the red fog and checked to make sure nobody would suspect they’d been there before he and Decker went back out the door.

“Hold. We have a vehicle coming in through the back gate.”

The trucking yard was accessed by two gates, although the security tower was at the front. Waggs looked at Decker. “We should check it out.”

Decker grinned. “Read my mind.”

“Pyro, meet us at the west corner.”

“Roger.”

A minute later, Liam jogged up to them and the three men watched as a single unit truck drove into the back of yard and pulled up to a warehouse. The security guards from the front opened the double doors and the truck pulled inside. Waggs caught sight of the driver and snapped pictures of all the men before the door was closed.

“We need to get closer and see what’s inside.” Liam had come alive now, his grumpy attitude gone, and he was mission focused.

“What about that?”

Waggs followed where Deck was pointing and saw a skylight on the top of the metal structure that now housed the truck. Waggs weighed it up as both men looked to him. “It’s risky but doable.”

“If you and Liam cover the guards, I can get up the side by the ladder.”

“I can do better than that. I can cause a diversion,” Liam said.