Chapter 457: Saturday. DSS Safe House, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

IGNEY SHOVED THE FRONT door of the DSS Safe House open. He'd come back as soon as he'd finished tracking down the taxi driver. It helped that Igney had taken out some of his initial rage on the man. Now Igney was in control. Utterly calm despite the white hot rage bubbling up through his body.

Where the hell was Pasley?

Igney stopped a few feet into the foyer.

Pasley had no doubt spoken to the taxi driver first, but he hadn't shared the man's intel. Pasley had kept it to himself. Why? To what purpose or end? Was he trying to wrap up the job on his own? Cut Igney out of it?

He'd never pegged Pasley for the ambitious type. It was why, despite the other man's slow ways, Igney liked working with him. He knew that Pasley would never be competition for a raise or a more desirable position.

But could that have changed? Where was Pasley?

Igney walked through the house with new purpose. There were fewer people around now as some were being transferred back to the home office for an extens