Chapter Fifteen

Reiden Headquarters

Chloe had left the house before we had started dinner and since all of us were to hungry to wait for her, we ate. I make sure to fit a plate for Chloe and put it in the fridge before the boys can get ahold of the rest of the food. After dinner we are talking about how we can get Jamie out of this mess.

"Guys, it's fine. I have the fake ID and Passport, that will work for now."

I shrug.

"Until we get back to the US and if the FBI is looking for you there, we are screwed."

Abe sits down having gotten another bottle of wine.

"What if we prove Jamie is innocent, by proving Ben was working for Reiden."

Jackson points to Abe.

"That's a great idea."

Chloe walks into the dining room.

"What is?"

"Abe just had an idea, about Jamie. She can't spend the rest of her life running. We have to get her out of it by proving that Ben Shafer was on Reiden's payroll."

"Okay."

I lean against the doorway to the kitchen.
"Reiden has an office here in Paris."

Jackson nods.
"We're breaking in."

Jamie nods.
"The Paris Reiden only handles European contracts, but their computer network is linked to the central system back in Boston, which means, if we can hack into their system, we can prove that Ben Shafer was on their payroll."

Chloe sits down into one of the chairs.

"But how are we gonna do that?"

"What, the hacking into the system part or the proving it part."

"Both."

Mitch hands her a glass of wine.

"Here, it'll make more sense if your drink this."

We go over our plan to hack into Reiden's system and plan out every for the following morning. Waking up early to make sure that we all look nice and professional. I walk out of the bathroom after putting on my makeup, which I rarely do, but I think it turned out alright, when I look over I see Jackson trying to tie his tie in the hall mirror. I laugh softly as I walk over to him.

"Do you need some help?"

He chuckles and shrugs.

"If you wouldn't mind."

I smile softly as I help him with his tie. He looks so sharp, I never get to see him in anything like this. I mean I love his rugged look, but it's nice to see him dressed up. I look up into his eyes, while tying his tie.

"What?"

He smiles softly as I glance back down to his tie.

"I was just thinking about how beautiful. With or without your makeup on, dressed up or in your normal clothes."

I shake my head and blush as he lifts my chin with his pointer finger.

"What did I do to desire you?"

I smile softly, as I finish tying his tie, before he leans in to kiss me. It doesn't take long for all of us to get and head out, Well all but Mitch, who's job is to hack into the system and get the code to get into the employee files, before standing by to make sure that we get back ups of all the files. Chloe, Abe, Jackson, and I are standing together, talking, while Jamie is over sitting at the small cafe area inside the building, setting up her laptop. We all have earpieces and are trying to look like we are there for some kind of important business. Before long we hear Jamie in our ears.

"Six o'clock, blue suit dark hair. He's Antoine Bellrose, senior VP, financial strategy."

"Got it."

Chloe nods and begins walking toward him, but she changes her course. I look over to Jackson, acting like I'm talking to him, while I am talking to Chloe.

"What is it?"

"The security guard over there, i know him. He's ex- DGSE. I can't do this. He's gonna recognize me."

Abe takes a deep breath.
"We have to get out of here. We need a new plan."

By now, Chloe had made it look like she needed to do something on the other side of the large room and made her way back to us. Jackson shakes his head, holding out his hand to Chloe.

"I got this, give me your phone."

Chloe hands her phone to Jackson who walks over to Mr. Bellrose, but he is too far away for us to hear anything other then what Jackson is saying through the headset.

"Monsieur Bellrose? Do you speak English? Fantastic. My name is Scott Polson. Uh, i'm with Msisimko Safari Camp back in Africa. Have you ever been to Africa Mr. Bellrose? Neither did the Finance Department in the States, which is why they nominated you for the trip. I knew you didn't get our letters. That's probably why you didn't respond. For the work you've done you've been nominated for a trip to Africa."

Jackson continues conning the poor man, long enough for Jamie to use the video call on her phone to make the computer think that Mr. Bellrose is the one trying to login. I lean over to Abe.
"Did he ever swindle me like his when we first met?"

Abe chuckles.

"Sadly, yes. I've seen that man pull magically dates out of thin air for you, Kat."

I laugh softly and shake my head. Luckily before long Jamie is able to get in and get the documents out of the database and we all make out way out of the building. When we get back to the car, we get a phone call from Abe. Telling us that the bear in the lab escaped and is heading away from its normal area. So Abe, Chloe, Jackson, and I head the direction the bear is. Jamie had taken a spread car and in heading back to the lab.