CHAPTER 27
THE WINDOW SET high in a basement storage room was big enough for us to climb through easily. Ana went first, moving silently around boxes and a dusty mountain bike to cover the door while Emmy and I slid inside. Rather than stick with our initial plan, which had called for Emmy and Ana to give the house a quick once over while I searched for the keys and letters, we had to waste time clearing each room to start with.
Guns in hands, we stacked up outside the first door, Emmy taking point, then Ana, then me. Then we were through, and Emmy broke left, Ana right, then me left again. We’d spent hours training for this. Blackwood headquarters had a specially built “kill house” behind the main office building that allowed us to practise every scenario from rescuing a hostage to raid
