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“So I’ve heard.” Rapp got in the right lane and prepared to turn onto 14th Street. “Was Agent Cash already assigned to the second limo or was that a last-minute change?”
“What is your interest in Agent Cash?”
Rapp took a right turn and sighed. “Nothing in particular. Just some inconsistencies we’ve found.”
“I don’t know if this will help, but we got in a fight that afternoon when I told him he needed to take Jillian back to her hotel.”
“So that was a last-minute change?”
“Yes.”
“And why did you decide to pick him over all the other agents?”
“I didn’t. She requested him.”
Rapp looked surprised. “You’re sure about that? Did she tell you personally, or did one of her aides tell you.”
Rivera thought about it for a moment and then said, “Actually, it was Garret who told me she’d requested him.”
Rapp took a hard left turn onto Jefferson Drive. “You’re sure?”
“Yes, I’m sure.”
“And this was normal.”
“Yes. He was the campaign manager. He was always running around barking at people making last minute changes.”
“Was it normal for Jillian to request Agent Cash?”
“Actually it was. We used to tease him about it.” Rivera smiled as she remembered her friend. “Some of the agents even joked that she had a thing for him.”
Rapp laughed uncomfortably. They drove another block in silence and then Rapp pulled over in front of the National Air and Space Museum. He had to make a decision. Kennedy wouldn’t like it, but he was going to go with his instincts. He put the car in park and turned toward Rivera. “I need you to do something for me.”
Rivera was caught off guard by both his sincerity and intensity. She looked at him warily and asked, “What?”
“You know Jack Warch?”
“Of course.”
“In about an hour and a half I’m going to have the president call him. The president is going to tell Jack that he wants you to look through all of the logs the Secret Service has on Ross and Alexander going back to this past September. I especially want you to look at the two weeks prior to the attack. I want to know if they had any foreign visitors, and I want you to keep an eye out for any mention of Stu Garret.”
Rivera took off her sunglasses and studied Rapp’s rugged features. “Why did you laugh like that when I told you some of the agents used to tease Cash that Jillian had a thing for him?”
“Laugh like what?”
“Like they were probably right and they didn’t even know it.”
Rapp looked out the front window and said, “Did you really not know that they were having an affair?”
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?Excuse me?” Rivera answered more than a bit shocked.
“You truly didn’t know?” Rapp asked in a disbelieving tone.
“I knew Matt Cash for a long time. He was a good father and a devoted husband. There is no way he was cheating on his family.”
“Really.” Rapp reached in his pocket and pulled out a color copy of one of the shots taken down in Palm Beach. Rapp tossed the photo onto Rivera’s lap and said, “If that’s not Agent Cash having sex with Jillian Rautbort then would you mind telling me who it is?”
