Chapter 27
After watching the three sessions from Garnet, Bean had no idea how the men had come up with the idea that Garnet could aim a missile at DC and blow up the city. She hadn’t let anything slip in the sessions.
He blew out a breath and wiped his hand over his face. Frustration filled him. The last week had felt like hell with the intense pressure to figure out how these terrorists came up with the idea, and where it had come from.
“Well, they didn’t get it from that,” Stanley said.
Chase shook his head. “Nope, that wasn’t it.”
Keel sat back and laced his fingers together behind his head. “I could keep up through most of her talk, but that woman is head and shoulders above all of us. Do you think she would work with us?”
Bean chuckled. “She already works for the government. Not sure she would change to working for the Army.”
Chase nodded. “I’m glad she’s on our side. She could do some damage if she ever started working for the enemy.”
“Someone is working for the enemy,” Bean said. “I think we need to take a second look at the people who work in her department and other close departments who would know about her work.”
Chase nodded. “I agree.”
“So we have to do another round of interrogations with these clowns, have the idiot back in the States interrogated, and figure out who could be a treasonous bastard who works with Garnet,” Bean said.
Chase nodded. “That’s a lot to accomplish, but we can handle it.”
Bean ran his hand through his hair. “We should head back to the States. We’ll ask the guards a few questions, then cut them loose. I don’t think they know anything.”
“Agree. We should be able to leave by morning.”
They had what could amount to weeks of work, but being at home would be better. With MPs watching her, he knew Garnet was safe, but he would feel better being there with her.
Bean stood at the back of the room as Keel and Mick questioned the guards separately.
Their stories stayed the same. They’d been hired to watch the front of the house.
They hadn’t been told what was going on.
They thought the guy might be into dealing drugs, or maybe some local crime, but anything else wasn’t even a possibility they thought of.
It was very obvious they weren’t in on the terrorist actions. They had no idea who any of them were, and they didn’t know anything about computers or hacking.
Chase moved closer to him. “We should cut them loose.”
Bean nodded. “Blindfolds and have someone drop them off in Madrid?”
“Yes. They don’t need to know where they were or who we were with.”
“Good.” Bean didn’t want these two to end up in prison somewhere if they didn’t deserve it. They were muscle, not the brains behind an organization.
He helped Mick and Scott hand off the two guards so they could fly home. The other two men were still their prisoners. They would be flown back to the USA and questioned there.
This mission of rescuing Garnet had turned into something bigger than they’d first thought.
There was still at least one person out there who needed to be questioned.
Then they also needed to search the list of people who worked with Garnet.
Someone knew something, and he just had to figure out who.
Otherwise, she would be at risk every single day.