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“No one let anything happen.” Logan narrowed his gaze. “Best we can tell they left on foot by way of the beach. They also left most of their luggage and the two dogs.”
“No.” Harper shook his head. “Saaina would never.”
“She wouldn’t have a choice if Daar forced her,” Baruti pointed out.
Harper blinked at the two.
Damn.
“What aren’t we seeing? What else is going on?” Harper asked as the elevator dinged on their floor.
They left that question unanswered and proceeded down the hall. He stopped at Jessica’s room before he was truly ready. He swiped the card anyway and pushed the door open.
“Holy shit,” Logan muttered.
Harper stared into what looked like a disaster zone.
The folding closet doors were off the track and lying across the entryway. The bathroom mirror was shattered. Clothes and debris were tossed about everywhere. The mattress sat half off the box spring.
“Gloves,” Baruti muttered.
Harper accepted the latex before picking his way into the room.
“She put up a fight,” Logan said.
Everything in Harper wound tight.
They’d missed something. He didn’t know where or how, but Daar was aware of the girls investigating him. Maybe he just found out, but he knew.
He turned toward the hotel door. “Robin…”
A distant pop, pop, pop sound made the hair on Harper’s arms stand on end.
As one, the three men sprinted for the door.
It was a blur. All of it. Harper was the first to turn toward the stairs because the damn elevator would take too long. He dimly heard Baruti yelling Samuel’s name over and over again.
Harper took the stairs two and three at a time. It was Logan who simply vaulted over the railing onto the lower landing leaving them all in the dust.
Let her be alright, Harper prayed.
He knew better than to wish gunshots were anything else. They’d all been in enough tense situations to know that noise and that it rarely meant anything good.
Harper burst through the emergency exit. By some stroke of luck, it put them out around the corner from the parking lot. He dashed to where he’d left the SUV.
He rounded the corner, and the scene spread out in front of him. His gaze went to the SUV first, and the shattered windshield. The passenger seat was empty. His knees wobbled, then gave out, sending him to the pavement.
“Sammy!” It sounded as though the force of that one word ripped Baruti’s vocal chords.
Harper’s gaze swung left to where Logan crouched over the other agent, his hands stained red.
“No. No!” Harper yelled and pushed to his feet. “Samuel? Robin!”
Something in him broke in that instant. He knew Robin was gone and that he’d failed her. He’d failed everyone.
This was on him.
Thursday. Miami, FL.
