Jake nodded as the two lovebirds set off. He turned to Hollyanne and caught her grin. Situations like this were her specialty. She turned the other direction and set off for the next quiet alley, with him and Grant next, then Spencer and Rik trailing.
Pacific Force, on the prowl.
To the corner and look, but nobody was around. Dinner time, and the Germans took their business hours deadly serious, unlike overworked Americans.
Hollyanne went around the corner and he and Grant gave her a twenty-count head start. She could take any one person by herself, so the goal now was to not look like an assault team moving into position. Even if that was God’s honest truth.
Nathaniel and Amanda were moving down the other street at a normal walk, so Hollyanne got ahead of them. Jake got to the next corner and crossed the alley, looking across to see Nathaniel just starting to cross.
Two more blocks and they were in position, a back corner on the opposite diagonal from where Nathaniel would approach.
“Anybody in sight?” he asked quietly as he caught up to Hollyanne.
“Nobody,” she whispered. “Just about to make my move, as soon as they appear.”
He nodded. Ten seconds later, Hollyanne took off at a hard jog, cutting in like a gray ghost.
Jake watched her vector in on the same door that Nathaniel and Amanda had turned towards. It was lit, but closed. Locked with a card reader, according to Nathaniel.
His job now was to stay back and cover her. Too many people approaching and somebody would be seen, even though all eyes were supposed to be on Nathaniel.
It took only one to sound an alarm they couldn’t afford.
The duo moved casually, while Hollyanne got flat against the side of the building and slid along. Supposedly, the cameras weren’t all that accurately placed, assuming a frontal approach instead of a sneak.
Cops kicking in the front door, rather than Pacific Force coming for your souls.
Nathaniel pulled out a card and waved it at the door. Amanda pulled it open. Both entered, with Hollyanne sliding right in behind them a heartbeat later.