Chapter 464: Monday. DSS Safe House, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

IGNEY COULDN'T BELIEVE HE had to waste precious moments going in search of Pasley.

Where the hell was he?

Igney grabbed his phone and hit the speed dial for the admin desk for their Ulaanbaatar team.

"Yes?" a cold voice said after one ring. There was always someone manning the desk.

"I need the location of my partner. Now."

"One moment."

Igney paced the hall outside their bedroom. The last he'd seen Pasley, he'd been lying in bed staring at his phone. Of all the useless things to do when they were the last remaining team from the original job. Granted, if the local police asked too many more questions Igney knew they'd be recalled.

He didn't want to go back to Dauria. They could do better work here. Work that would impact the well-being of all their people.

"Officer Pasley is in the building. Check the third floor commons."

Igney hung up and headed for the stairs. He climbed them two and three at a time then sprinted down the hall. He burst into the commons room. Only a few la