CHAPTER SIXTEEN The phone in the secure office rang, and the man known as Alpha picked up. ‘Yes,’ said Alpha. ‘Where the hell have you been?’ Beta asked. The tone was full of anger and panic. ‘Who do you think you are talking to?’ growled Alpha. ‘Fine – sorry, sir, but we have a situation for now,’ said Beta. ‘The cop?’ said Alpha. ‘He went to the girl’s apartment. I think he’s going to find the kid next?’ said Beta. The was silence. Alpha was thinking. ‘We can be at the location and good to go in twenty – we just need the green light. Sir?’ said Beta. Alpha nodded to himself. It was a reasonable plan. ‘Do it, but see if you can get anything on him. I don’t need a trail,’ Alpha said. He hung up and smashed his fist onto the desk. Then he sat quietly in the darkness of his room, p

