"Understood."
He gathered the sheets and left the room and I sat there alone for a while with the map and the quiet of the compound around me.
Vega was smart. Smarter than most of what Iron Cross had put in front of me over the years. But smart only got you so far when the other side was paying attention and we were paying attention now in a way we hadn't been six weeks ago. That wasn't going to happen again.
I stood and grabbed my jacket from the back of the chair.
The Vega situation was moving in the right direction. The men had their instructions and everything that needed to be in motion was in motion. The club was where it needed to be. That part of my life ran clean because I'd built it that way over five years of decisions made carefully and held to even when holding to them was
