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“Got a minute?” he asked Razor, who followed him out of the crowded kitchen.
“What’s up?”
“Can we still track the girls’ phones?”
“By girls, do you mean Ava’s group of friends?”
Striker nodded.
“Affirmative.”
“Penelope is pretty concerned about Tara.”
“Say no more. I’ll get on it.”
Striker knew he should get up and go back downstairs. But with Aine asleep next to him in the king-size bed, he was having a hard time motivating himself to do so.
When he heard the door open, though, he shot out of bed and went to see who had come in.
“How’s she doing?” whispered Razor.
“Asleep for now. Any news?”
“We got a ping from the plane.”
“Where is it?”
“Coordinates indicate Macuira National Park. There’s a team headed there now, but with the storm, I don’t know if they’ll be able to reach it.”
Striker ran his hand through his hair not wanting to say out loud what both of them knew this meant.
“I don’t know if you’re a praying man, but if you are, now’s the time to ask God to watch over our crew,” Razor said before walking back out the front door.
24
Aine turned around and went back to the bedroom, but too late. She’d already heard what Griffin wouldn’t have wanted her to. She couldn’t lie or hide it from him, though.
“I heard you and Tabon talking,” she said when he joined her in the bedroom.
He scrubbed his face with his hand. “I was going to tell you anyway, as soon as we knew anything.” He cupped her cheek with his hand. “It appears the K19 plane went down in a forested area in the northern part of Colombia.”
“Who was on it?”
“Onyx, Corazón, Tackle, and Halo.”
She’d heard all those names before and had met everyone but Corazón.
When Griffin crawled into bed next to her, Aine slid back under the covers, wrapped her arm around his waist, and rested her head on his chest.
“It could have been me on that plane. Maybe it should’ve been,” he said a few minutes later.
“Why do you say you should have been?”
“It was my mission they were carrying out.”
“But you weren’t on it, because you were with me.”
She felt him nod. Was he thankful, or did he regret that he hadn’t been there in place of one of the others?
