Derek palmed it smoothly, making it disappear into his jeans pocket like he'd practiced the motion. They talked for another three minutes Derek probably reassuring Marcus this was safe, nobody would know, they were just helping each other out.
Marcus left first, walking quickly with his head down. Derek waited five minutes, then followed.
Ethan stayed seated for another ten minutes, giving them plenty of distance before leaving. When he got back to his apartment room, he immediately downloaded the video footage from the spy pen to his laptop.
The quality was better than he'd hoped. The pen had captured Derek counting out five one-hundred-dollar bills, Marcus's guilty expression, the USB drive exchange, everything. With audio enhancement software he'd downloaded for free, Ethan could eve
