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“Guilty as charged.”
“The CIA, wow, I’m impressed,” Elizabeth exclaimed. “So, are you a spy?”
“I’m a Navy SEAL who now works as an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency.”
“That’s really hot,” she breathed, rising to her feet and moving her arms around his neck. “You’re like 007.”
“What’s this obsession you have with James Bond?”
“Are you kidding?” she whispered, pressing herself against him. “There’s nothing sexier than a secret agent or a Navy SEAL, and you’re both.”
“And you, Elizabeth McKay, are insatiable. Get your cute butt into that kitchen and finish making lunch,” he ordered, landing a quick slap on her backside. “I want to leave right after Jim is picked up.”
“Where are we going?”
“Back to the safehouse,” he replied as he bustled her from the room. “I’m meeting Jack there.”
“What about David Clark?”
“I need to bring you up to speed about him and some other things. I’ll tell you everything while you’re—dammit.”
“What?”
“Don’t you hear that? There’s a vehicle coming up the drive.”
“I do now, but only vaguely. Do you need extra sharp hearing to be an agent for the CIA?”
“You need to be extra sharp in many areas to be a SEAL,” he said solemnly as they walked into the kitchen. “The van will stop in front of the house. I’ll close the door to the hall. Stay in here and finish making lunch, and don’t come out.”
“Aye, aye, Captain,” she quipped with a grin.
“Hey, Elizabeth, this is serious shit.”
“I was just trying to add a little levity.”
“Fun and games are fine, but when something is happening, or about to happen, it’s all business.”
“Yeah, you’re right, sorry.”
“Stay here,” he repeated. “This won’t take long.”
A short distance away, handcuffed and in the back of a windowless panel van, Dan Miller seethed with fury. His chances of escape had significantly diminished.
He’d been taken from his cell, led into the station foyer, and handed over to a couple of gruff men. He’d been terrified, until one of them said he was being transported back to Southern California to face charges.
Relief had flooded his body.
But shortly after leaving the station, the van drove up a hill.
They weren’t heading to the airport.
He began to worry.
The vehicle slowed, turned down a bumpy road, then abruptly stopped.
He heard the two men leave.
Seconds ticked by.
