Chapter 9: I Blame Myself Too.

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CATALINA'S POINT OF VIEW
5:58 P.M.

"Oh my god! Cairo! What the fuck was that?!" Nairobi exclaimed as she came running up towards us with a frantic expression etched across her features and I rolled my eyes in response.

"Oh great. She's here." Martín grumbled as Denver and Helsinki struggled to stifle their laughs at the Argentinian's evident disdain for the woman who they had grown close too during the first heist.

"Hey. That was a genius move." Bogotá said as he slapped my arm appreciatively. "I'm glad to know that you still have some of that badass nature in you that I was so accustomed to seeing before Andrés died."

"I never lost it." I snapped. "And don't even think for a second that I ever did."

"I wouldn't dare." He replied with a grin.

"Nairobi." I said and eyed Bogotá carefully as I continued to speak to the younger woman. "How is The Governor?"

"He's stable." She said as I nodded my head. "He is awake and sitting with Tokyo right now. Although he did see all the gold we've already began to melt. Will that be a problem for us?"

"Who is he going to tell?" I asked with a raised eyebrow. "After all he's dead."

"But...what...what do you mean?" She stuttered out incredulously. "I just told you that he was alive!"

"Be that as it may perhaps the rest of the hostages including our very special guest...Chief Of Security César Gandía...should believe that he's been executed after resisting to corporate with our demands." I said patronizingly. "That way if anything unexpected were to happen in the near future our precious Governor will become our token of safety or more specifically he'll be our insurance policy."

"That's a good idea." Martín admitted with a heavy sigh.

"Where will we keep him?" Nairobi questioned.

"With you of course." I replied brightly. "You and your team will make sure he stays fully recovered and once he's finally in good health you can put him to work and force him to help you work on melting the gold. Hell you can chain him to the pipes for all I care but just make sure he stays alive and coherent. Do I make myself clear?"

"Crystal." She replied softly.

"Excellent!" I exclaimed with a fake smile.

"Now." I said as I turned my head to face Bogotá. "I need you to go downstairs and continue diving into the tank."

"Okay." He said yet he didn't move...not even an inch.

"Right now." I said seriously.

"Sir yes sir." He mocked as he turned his back and walked away from me with a playful salute.

"I want Denver and Helsinki to go help Stockholm with the hostages. I need you both to make sure the supplies needed are given out to each individual. Nairobi I want you to go downstairs and continue working with Bogotá and his crew of "volunteers." Once you do that you may also relieve Tokyo of her babysitting duties and send her back up to us. And finally, Palermo you will assisting me as we begin to strategize a new plan of how to get rid of the guards since Bogotá was the one that went out with the boxes and they were not." I said as everyone nodded their heads in understanding.

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TOKYO'S POINT OF VIEW
6:23 P.M.

"Are you sure I can leave?" I asked Nairobi skeptically.

"Cairo wants to see you upstairs."  She said as I rolled my eyes.

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