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The moment Harper had been dreading was here.
He followed behind Baruti and Logan into the satellite FBI office. It was the same one where they’d initially met Samuel and Baruti to begin with, back when the team was still finding their rhythm.
What a wild damn ride.
“Look what the cat dragged in,” Jamie Silva called out.
Harper flipped off his best friend. He was in a sour mood and full of dread.
Jamie ambled up to Harper with that wide, shit-eating grin on his face. “I was going to start taking bets whether or not you were ever coming back.”
“Fuck you,” Harper groused.
Jamie snorted and held up his hand. Harper would be an ass to ignore that, so he smacked his palm to Jamie’s. He squeezed Harper’s hand and pulled him in, slapping Harper’s shoulder.
“It wasn’t the same around the office without you, man,” Jamie said softer.
“Can’t say I missed you, slackers, one bit,” Harper drawled.
Jamie laughed and shoved Harper away. “You’re an asshole.”
He shrugged. “Apparently I’m your asshole.”
Evan hung back a little. The Ukrainian immigrant was always quiet, but these days he wore a slight smile. Probably thanks to that new wife of his. Marriage suited Even.
He caught Harper’s eye, and they nodded at each other by way of a greeting.
It was nice to be back amongst the team. Harper had finally found a rhythm working with Samuel, but it wasn’t the same. There was a balancing act with a team of two. You were either picking up the slack or slacking off. But with the rest of Harper’s team? They all pitched in.
This should never have been a secret mission. They should have had everyone on it, regardless of who went undercover.
The very idea of one of the other guy’s in Harper’s shoes made him grind his molars together.
Where was Robin? Was she okay?
“Guys?” Tucker called out.
Harper’s stomach sank, and he turned.
“Zora wants to talk,” Tucker announced.
Because of course, she did.
Harper was dreading this.
It didn’t matter how many times it happened, he would always struggle with the power structure. Most of the time he worked through that by making people laugh. It was his coping mechanism. But not this time. He was too raw, too on edge.
Jamie smacked Harper’s shoulder again and then the lot of them were filing into an inner room like old times. Like nothing had changed.
Zora stood at the head of a conference table staring at a tablet. If Harper had to guess, it was something from Diha. At this point everything relied on her untangling the trail.
“What’s our plan for rescuing Robin?” Harper asked before Zora could begin.
Zora didn’t immediately look up. She pursued whatever was on her screen a moment longer, dragging her finger across the screen before glancing up at Harper.
“We are currently focused on the security guard who left the bank with the laptop. If we can figure out how Daar’s associate and Saaina left the bank, we’ll have a good idea for where to start looking,” Zora said.
“What about Robin?” Harper said, louder this time.
