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10:02:19 PM

Twelve hours more and this little babysitting job would be over. Marcos was counting the moments. It had been a long and trying day, and Marcos was exhausted, but at the same time he couldn’t let himself wind down.

Something about this job unsettled Marcos. Not just because the kid was completely certifiable, but also because he didn’t know a thing about his employer, the Mastermind. All Marcos had on him was a phone number he could dial, and Marcos had surmised that number only led to a rerouter, rendering the Mastermind untraceable.

This didn’t sit well with him. When he took the job, it seemed like good money for a simple snatch job. But the longer it went, the greater the chance for the job to go south became. And Marcos began to realize it would be a good idea to have someone to flip on if it did.

Marcos had Guillermo check on the kid, then went into his office and logged onto his computer. He began to research the only thing he had to go on… the target: Dr. Gordon Reeves…

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