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“What do you mean?”
“Tabon told me that Dash worked for someone who was close to our family. I pretty much disregarded what he said because Dad never had any friends I knew of. Mom either.”
“Did Tabon know Dad was involved?’
Ava shrugged. “He must have.”
She remembered Tabon, Gunner, and Doc talking about their father at the wedding, and how she’d gotten a bad feeling watching them.
“When he met me at the airport that morning and talked me into staying, he said something about the case against Dash being a lot more complex than I thought, and that the CIA wanted the man he worked for more than Dash. He also told me that he’d been hired to protect me.”
“Who hired him?”
“I think the CIA did.”
“Oh my God,” Aine moaned. “Do you think Dad had us kidnapped?”
“I have no idea.”
“Where is he now?”
“Dad or Dash?”
“I meant Dad, but where is Dash too?”
“I don’t know the answer to that either.”
The door opened and Monk came in. Before she could ask, he said, “Razor is in surgery.”
“How bad is it, Monk? Just tell me.”
“He’s critical.”
An hour after she and Aine were moved to a room on the fourth floor, Kade and his wife walked in.
“Hello, love. How are you feeling?” Merrigan asked quietly, noticing Aine was asleep.
Ava’s eyes filled with tears. “I’m so scared,” she whispered.
Merrigan pulled a chair close to the bed, put the guardrail down, and took Ava’s hand in hers. “You’ve been through quite an ordeal,” she said.
Ava shook her head. “It’s Tabon.”
Merrigan nodded.
“Have you heard anything?” Ava asked Kade.
“He’s still in surgery.?
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“Try to get some rest,” Merrigan told her. “We’ll be here, and I’ll let you know as soon as we hear anything.”
“They drugged me with something.”
Merrigan ran her fingers through Ava’s hair. “Let yourself sleep.”
When she woke again, the sun was shining brightly through the window. How long had she slept? She raised her head and saw Aine was still asleep and so was Merrigan, who looked very uncomfortable, sitting in the room’s recliner.
