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Daar paced the dingy hotel room. He had a tenuous hold on the situation and it was slipping. Something needed to go very right very soon.
Where was Peter? Why hadn’t he checked in yet?
The plan was for him to go by the hotel and watch for a little while on the off chance Robin came to check on her friend. That was hours ago. So where was he?
“How much longer are we going to be here?” Cassim asked.
If he didn’t stop talking Daar was going to banish Cassim to the adjoining room with his wife. Saaina would not shut up about the damn dogs and Daar’s patience was nearly at its end. She was lucky he hadn’t killed them out of spite. Dirty little mongrels. He was already contemplating wiping the slate clean of the lot of them and being done with this song and dance. It wasn’t like he needed his brother and if his niece could turn on him like this, what other purpose was there?
The laptop.
Daar needed that and then he could burn the rest to the ground.
Outside an engine cut off.
He frowned at the windows, listening to a door open and shut.
“Amaar?” Daar called out.
Amaar never glanced up from his laptop. “It’s Peter.”
Daar breathed a sigh of relief. He was grateful that Amaar had put the camera in the window, giving them a clear view of the parking lot.
The door opened and Robin staggered inside followed by Peter.
Her gray tank top was smeared with a splotch of dark color. She went to her knees, staring up at them with wide, fearful eyes.
So she knew what she’d done.
Good.
“Is it hers?” Daar asked.
Peter quickly closed and secured the door. “No. She had a badge following her. I took care of him.”
Daar nodded. “Good.”
Robin stared around the room. Her chest moved in quick, short bursts. At this rate she’d pass out soon from hyperventilating and shock.
A new rage twisted Daar’s insides. He went to a knee and grabbed her by her ponytail, jerking it down so she had to look him in the eye.
“I had such high hopes for you,” he snarled. “And then you had to go and do whatever this is. What are you planning? Out with it.”
She tried to cower away from him, but he held her in place. “Nothing. I don’t know.”
“What were the cops doing following you?”
“They weren’t. There were no cops. At least… I don’t know. I saw him once outside Harper’s apartment. I don’t know him. I swear. Honest,” she insisted. Tears streamed down her face.
Something banged on the wall. “Robin? Robin, is that you?”
The other girl, Jessica, appeared in the doorway. Despite her wrists and ankles being bound, she’d found a way to shuffle around.
Robin lurched toward the door. “Jess!”
Daar hauled her back. “Oh, no you don’t.”
Her gaze remained on her friend. “Jess, are you okay?”
