Such elementary tricks were never going to slip past them.
"A girl as smart as you should know how to value her own life."
Tycho warned her not to waste her energy on pointless struggles.
While Felicity was notoriously impulsive and dangerously arrogant, Quinton had taken the wheel now.
Quinton's planning was flawless. He was the undisputed tactical genius of their syndicate.
Tycho didn't trust Felicity, and right now, he barely trusted himself, but he trusted Quinton implicitly.
Quinton?
He probably had no idea that Tycho held him in such high regard, seeing him merely as a ruthless operative.
"Why are you wasting your breath? Just break her wrists. If she tries anything else, shatter her kneecaps!"
Felicity twisted around in her seat, glaring at Claire with pure malice.
She was a radical Sundara nationalist and harbored absolute contempt for the people of Solenia.
Naturally, her attitude toward anyone from Solenia was incredibly hostile.
That was why having to flirt and act sweet with Howard had made her physically
nauseous.
In her eyes, Solenians were beneath her!
Claire met Felicity's gaze coolly.
This woman certainly hadn't looked at Howard with this expression when she was seducing him.
This was her true face.
"Felicity, are you just jealous because she's prettier than u?"
Tycho despised Felicity. She was arrogant, reckless, and utterly full of herself.
Factoring in the massive financial hit she had caused him today, he fully intended to teach her a violent lesson once the mission was complete.
"Jealous? Of her? What's so special about a Solenian?"
"If you ask me, the clients paying top dollar for her are completely out of their minds!"
Felicity claimed she wasn't jealous, but the vitriol in her tone told a very different story.
"If they didn't pay top dollar, how exactly would you get paid?"
Tycho shot her a disdainful look.
Claire analyzed the exchange silently. If these two had the energy to bicker, it meant they were absolutely confident in their escape.
She wondered where Hillary and the extraction team were.
Back at the warehouse, Hillary scoured the area for ten agonizing minutes before finally spotting the anomaly on the security feeds.
Their sedan had driven straight up the loading ramp into the back of an eighteen-wheeler. Meanwhile, a completely different vehicle- that hadn't been seen entering the warehouse-had been deployed from that same truck.
These people had prepared for every variable!
Hillary relayed the intel immediately and uploaded the new vehicle's make and plates to the tactical network.
Silas Carl issued the command, coordinating the local police grid to hunt the new car down.
Meanwhile, Quinton was navigating swiftly toward a private hospital.
Although he hadn't planned to escalate the timeline this aggressively, this escape route had been locked in for weeks.
The hospital was backed by foreign capital, specifically funneled in by Sundara shadow corporations.
Establishing a medical facility in
Solenia served two purposes:
creating a massive
intelligence gathering hub, and
running highly illegal, off-the-books
operations.
After making contact with the hospital's inside man, Quinton pulled into a blind spot entirely hidden from traffic cameras. An ambulance was already i
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Even Claire hadn't anticipated they would use an ambulance to bypass the police cordons.
Civilians instinctively yielded to emergency vehicles, giving Quinton an incredibly smooth run through the city.
"Damn it, we missed them again!"
By the time Silas personally arrived at the scene, he found only the second decoy vehicle, abandoned on a side street.
Hillary looked utterly devastated. "This is my fault. If my security detail had been tighter, Claire wouldn't have been taken."
They simply hadn't expected the Syndicate to be this brazen. All threat models suggested they wouldn't dare strike in broad daylight on a university campus.
Who could have predicted they'd execute a violent abduction and actually break the perimeter?
Now Claire was gone. Even if they didn't execute her immediately, who knew what kind of psychological or physical torture they would subject her to?
She was a brilliant, beautiful young woman. Falling into the hands of a cartel like this was a nightmare scenario.