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“This was the best night ever. Please say we can do this again sometime.”
Amalie turned toward him in the dark. “We can do this again sometime.”
Sean laughed, then lifted her hand to his lips and kissed it.
“Another thing I now know about you.”
Amalie’s heart was pounding. “What’s that?”
“You have this wry, cockeyed sense of humor that lights every dark corner of my soul. Stay put. I’m coming around to help you out.”
Amalie’s heart was pounding.Lights every dark corner of my soul.And then he opened the door, again insisting that she hang on to his arm until they were out of the weather.
She unlocked the door, opened it, then turned around.
Sean leaned in front of her long enough to flip off the porch light, then cupped her cheeks.
He was going to kiss her. All she had to do was not faint from pure joy.
He pulled her close, so close that she felt his breath on her face, and then his lips were on her mouth and his hands were in her hair.
She didn’t even know that he’d pulled back until she heard him talking.
“Thank you for an amazing evening. I am just a call away if you need me. And I’ll call you soon so we can do this again.”
Amalie nodded.
Then he turned the porch light back on. “It’s cold, honey. Lock the door behind me, okay?”
She nodded again, but stood in the open doorway until he was backing out of her drive before she closed the door. Then she remembered the mail, opened the door to get it out of the box, then locked it as she went back inside.
Sean drove home in a daze.
Something had happened to him tonight that had never happened before.
He’d fallen in love at first kiss.
Toby West had just landed Outen’s jet at Miami International, taxied off the main runway and down a smaller strip before rolling to a stop in front of Outen’s corporate hangar.
Wolf was inside the plane, dressed in a pair of Toby’s coveralls, with a sock cap pulled over his hair, and holding a pair of sunglasses.
“Wait here, Boss,” Toby said, then exited the plane and put a maintenance crew to work running checkups. Pretty soon there were more than a dozen men coming and going around the hangar, all wearing the same kind of coveralls.
At that point, Toby went back inside, came out carrying Wolf’s suitcase as if it was his own, dumped it in his car, and then turned around just as Wolf approached. Toby passed off his car keys without making eye contact and kept moving back toward the plane. He spoke to the manager, then walked out of the back of the hangar, heading for the main building, while Wolf slipped into Toby’s car and drove out of the hangar with no one the wiser.
Toby caught a cab at the terminal and went home to sleep, while Wolf left Toby’s car in the parking garage next to his apartment, then caught a cab to a car rental agency. A couple of hours later, he was on his way to a property he owned on the outskirts of Savannah, Georgia. There were no caretakers, so it was empty, but he kept the utilities on, loaning it out to friends for weekend getaways now and then. The nearest neighbor was a half mile away, and if anyone saw a car parked there, they’d think nothing of it. It was the perfect place to disappear.
Wolf needed someone to trust, but his first choice had already died in his stead, and he was heartsick. The authorities needed to know he was alive, but that wouldn’t stop the investigation because Zander and Stu were still dead.
The first time he stopped for gas and to get some food, he sent Jack Fielding a text. It never occurred to him that his first call should have been to Fiona, because he already distrusted her enough to put Jack on her tail.
He glanced at the time. It was getting late. Jack would contact him when he could. Right now, he just wantedto get somewhere and sleep without fearing someone would kill him in his bed.
Fiona went through the day on autopilot while receiving bouquets of flowers, calls of sympathy, and friends coming to pay their respects. She hadn’t gone to work this morning, and it was costing her a lot, maybe someone else’s life.
She’d been in the middle of an important project when this happened, and she needed to finish building the one-of-a-kind surgical instrument needed for a doctor in Manhattan who was waiting to perform a critical surgery. People’s lives depended upon her skills and abilities. She’d already made up her mind that she was going back to work tomorrow to complete the task, and was standing on the balcony of their bedroom, looking out into the night, when she saw a shadow moving through the grounds.
Her heart quickened, thinking she recognized the silhouette, and then moments later, when her phone rang, she knew she’d been right.
