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“Come in but I have no idea where you are going to put them.”
“I liked your idea. Where is your bathroom?” he asked.
“On the left.” I watched as he struggled to get them through the door. I could only imagine what the bathroom looked like with all the petals falling all over the place.
When he came back out, he said, “It was my way of saying sorry. Please forgive me, Meri. I didn’t mean to hurt you.”
“It’s hard to be angry when you do something so outrageous like this.” That was the truth, but it didn’t mean I was running back into his arms either.
“Does that mean you’d agree to have dinner with me?”
“No. I can’t.”
“Why?” he asked.
“Because I’m leaving,” I pointed at my bags on the bed.
“What do you mean, you’re leaving? Are you going back to the hospital?”
“No. I don’t know where I am going, but I can’t stay here,” I stated.
“I told you, I'm sorry. Please, don’t go,” he pleaded.
“This isn’t about you. I’m not safe here.”
His brow rose and he said, “Of course you are. No one is getting in here.”
I walked over, picked up the note, and handed it to him. He looked at it and then at me. I translated what it said.
“Holy fuck! Who brought this to you?”
I explained to him the entire situation as I knew it. It didn’t take him long to pull out his cell phone and call Bennett with the details.
“Put him on speaker, please. I want to hear what is being said. I mean you’re talking about me after all.”
Ryker did as I requested. Bennett said, “You can’t leave, Meri. Not yet. Not until I find out how the note came to be in the resort.”
“I don’t know. And the receptionist said it was there last night while she stepped away from the desk. Anyone could’ve left it there.”
“We have enough cameras in that place to tell us exactly who left it. Give me an hour and I’ll know more. I promise. One hour,” he said and ended the call.
“It sounds like he was at the hospital,” I said to Ryker. “I could hear a call buzzer ringing.”
“Yes, he went to visit someone,” he replied.
“That’s all you have to say. Just someone, not who?” He didn’t say anything, and I added, “I guess I’m busy for dinner because things haven’t changed. Something is going on and you’re still not telling me. I think you should go,” I said firmly.
“Meri, I’m not lying. I don’t know who he is visiting. I know it is a member of his team.”
“Is that all you know?” I prodded one last time.
“No. Mombo is dead and several of his followers or whatever they were, are in the hospital and others are in jail.”
“Mombo’s dead? When? How?” I asked.
“Last night. Bennett and his men attacked where they were hiding out. There was gunfire. Some people got hurt, some were killed, and a few were captured. But the bottom line is Mombo can’t hurt you or anyone else ever again,” he said.
Mombo was dead. But that left another question. “Then who left the note?” I said, my hands starting to tremble.
