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Regan managed to eat a bit, talked to some of her old colleagues, spent a few minutes with Terri and Grace. There was a peace in the air, a sense of closure. She grabbed a second beer when her first became too warm. They were serving Samuel Adams, which was Tommy’s favorite beer. He used to toast, “Brewer, Patriot,” with a grin whenever they had a barbecue, back before her life had turned upside down. “Maybe that’s what I should do, open a brewery when I retire,” he would say.
She tilted the bottle to the sky. “Goodbye, Tommy.”
Charlie sat down across from her. He looked worn out.
“You okay?” he asked.
She nodded. “I should be asking you the same. It’s over, at least for me.”
“Yeah, it’ll be a roller coaster here for a few months.”
He opened his own bottle of beer, clinked the neck against her bottle, and they both drank.
“Jenna is back at work,” he said. “We did a threat assessment and she’s not in danger. Between the evidence you found in Nelson Lee’s truck and the evidence Grant has plus his statement, there is more than enough to take down BioRise, Brock Marsh, and Legacy.”
“And James Seidel? Is he in custody?”
“It’s going to take time, but he hasn’t fled the country and the FBI pulled his passport.”
“He has the wealth to fight us every step of the way.”
“Us?”
“You know what I mean.”
“We have enough against BioRise that he’s going to have to pay his fortune to fancy lawyers to keep him out of jail, and even then I don’t know if that’ll work.”
“So you think Jenna is okay, then,” Regan said. “Because if Seidel thinks that killing her gets him off, he’ll do it.”
“Jenna’s statement is small potatoes compared to those documents. She’s the icing on the cake, and pulls a lot of it together, but even without her they’re going down.”
“Okay. Good. And Lance?”
“I think he’s in love with her.”
She smiled. “Trial by fire.”
“Grant’s going into WitSec until the trial, if there’s a trial,” Charlie said a moment later. “I went over the contract with him yesterday.”
“Good.”
“He leaves tomorrow morning. Because we haven’t located the Rockford brothers, it’s best that we get him out quickly and quietly.”
“Okay.”
“You should say goodbye.”
“I don’t have anything to say.”
She was angry that Grant had forced her to kill Nelson Lee, and she was angry at herself that she didn’t feel remorse for it.
“I think you do. Closure.”
She looked into Charlie’s dark eyes, saw the friendship, the affection, the concern on his face.
“Maybe you’re right.”
Regan was cleared to enter the hotel room where Grant was being housed. She didn’t know where he would be going when he boarded a plane tomorrow morning; Grant probably didn’t know yet, either.
