Nash “Wait! Is that—” Daphne’s hand gripped my thigh on one side and Louis’s on the other, as she leaned forward and craned her neck to see out of the window. “Is that a shopping mall?” I cast a worried glance at Louis as she squealed in delight, and then scrambled over Louis’s lap to climb out the door unassisted. “To be fair,” Louis said as he patted me on the knee. “We were warned…” Luckily, Daphne was so excited about the venue that she didn’t notice that anything was amiss about the security. She didn’t notice that there were armed guards on the roof, or that the men dressed as Mall Security were carrying automatic weapons. All total I had a team of sixteen men in and around the mall. They’d been on sight since five in the morning, screening all the employees as they entered

