She.
Was.
Tired.
When her phone chimed, she pulled it out. It was the work one, and she saw a message appear on the screen.
“I need a favor,” she said, reading it.
He would do anything for her.
“What? Just ask. As long as it’s not to let you go because I won’t survive that.”
No, it wasn’t that.
Married people fought.
Married people also stayed.
“I just got an alert that the footlocker that we’re sending toThe Huntersto look like it’s Hemmingway Seville’s istouching down in the UK. Can you get word to Merry or Jagger?” she asked. “I have a lot on my plate right now. I have to focus on this case.”
Oh, he could do that.
“Got it. What else do you need?”
She went there.
“I need a lot of money in cash ready to go,” she said. “If I need to go under for a while, to track him, I need money. I don’t want him to find me. We’re going to have to play dirty.”
He was making a list.
“Chris has cash accessible at all times. We’ll have it ready for when The Hunters arrive. Let me come with you.”
She wasn’t having it.
That wasn’t happening.
While Ethan could hold his own in a fight, this was not going to be that kind of battle. This was warfare, and he wasn’t that kind of a fighter.
He could play dirty in a fist fight.
She played dirty in a gunfight.
They weren’t built the same.
“I can’t,” she said. “You have to stay there and protect the family. ProtectOURfamily.”
He would do that.
“What are you expecting?” he asked.
She was to the point.
“There’s one more Russian spy, and at some point, the dead one won’t make rendezvous. If she is watching theDark Web, he might alert her. I need that message. I need to find out where he is, and to do that, I need to know how he’s moving in the shadows. He’s flying around, and we can’t track him.HOWis he doing that? I can because of Gabe, but how is he getting fromCorpus ChristitoWashington DCunnoticed?”
That he understood.
“I’ll have Gabby start monitoring it. And we’re sure he’s flying around and not driving?”
