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Finally.
Daar clicked the button and glanced at the door.
Harper and Robin were gone, but that was a problem for a later time.
“Hold on,” Daar said into the receiver. He ensured the door was shut before pressing the phone to his ear. “Tell me you have good news.”
Peter’s voice was grim. “Good and bad. My guys followed the rep from the airport to the bank. He was inside for half an hour before he came out empty handed. Our guys picked him up an hour ago and are working him over now.”
“He hasn’t said anything?”
“Not yet.”
“Hm.”
Daar shouldn’t be terribly surprised. The chancellor wasn’t going to send just anyone for a task like this.
“Hold on. My guy is calling me again,” Peter said and quickly hung up.
Daar paced the room. He’d been hoping that this was all a set-up, that there wasn’t really a safety deposit box. But it seemed to exist, and now the contents were somewhere in the wind.
What was going on with the chancellor? Why this sudden about face?
It wasn’t like Daar could call the man up and ask what was going on. That wasn’t how these things worked. If Daar let on he knew, he’d be forcing the chancellor’s hand. It could go very poorly for Daar. He needed to be certain about every move he made from here on out.
He had enemies all around him and here he’d gone and given Robin reason to doubt him. Fucking hell.
His phone rang again. This time the sound was so unexpected he jumped before answering it.
“Well?”
“It’s bad,” Peter said. “He says he was told to retrieve a box under the name Saaina Suleiman. Amaar is looking into it now.”
“What of the contents?”
“He said the box was empty when he got there.”
“Shit,” Daar muttered and began pacing.
“I get the feeling this was a set-up. They wanted to see who’d go after him, flush us out.”
Daar stopped staring into a mirror.
Saaina would have been present when Cassim opened the box under her name. Which meant she’d known and hadn’t told Daar.
He’d never seen that coming. She owed him. He was the reason she had a comfortable life. Her brother was his right-hand man. With one phone call, Daar could end his life. How was it she was conspiring with the chancellor? Or was she an innocent in this? Another pawn being moved about?
No. No, chances were this was Cassim’s doing. He’d probably hid the laptop there under Saaina’s name as insurance. So how had the chancellor come to find out about it?
“Peter?”
“Yes?”
“I’m going to need you to get over here. We need to have a family meeting…”
Wednesday. Pearl Palace Luxury Resort, Miami, FL.
Harper yanked the zipper on Robin’s bag closed. “Anything else? Is there anything here you cannot live without?”
