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“Forgive me?” Saaina asked between sobs. “Forgive me, please? I didn’t know what to do.”
Robin nodded. How could she not?
She’d always thought that the two of them should be close. That their respective positions in the family made them allies and not enemies. And this whole time, Saaina was just doing the best she could in her own way.
“What about the laptop?” Jessica asked. “What’s so important about that?”
Saaina covered her mouth and squeezed her eyes shut in an attempt to get her emotions in check. Voices drifted toward the open hatch. The plane had to be close to ready to leave.
“Charlotte’s laptop,” Saaina said in a low voice. “She was investigating Daar, that’s all I know. Cassim gave it to me, and I put it in a safety deposit box.”
“In New York City?” Jessica asked.
Robin recalled Uncle Daar saying that in the hotel.
Saaina’s face creased with worry. “But, he knows about the laptop.”
“Uncle Daar?” Robin asked.
Saaina shook her head. “The other man. The one your uncle answers to.”
Why did Robin have a bad feeling about that? Who was this man? And what did he want with her uncle?
Thursday. Miami International Airport, Miami, FL.
Harper paced the down the center of the cabin and back. His anger was boiling just under the surface.
Why were they taking these risks? Hadn’t enough people been killed, injured and hurt by this case?
“Samuel is stable,” Logan announced to the cabin.
Baruti and Harper let out a breath. They glanced at each other, both wearing grim expressions. It had been a tough call to leave Samuel in Miami under guard to keep chasing after Daar. Harper just hoped he didn’t regret following Zora’s orders. She’d promised that Samuel would be moved into protective custody as soon as possible. When the paramedics had wheeled Samuel away, Harper hadn’t been convinced the man would survive.
“We wear vests from here on out,” he announced to the cabin, screw chain of command.
Logan nodded. Then again, his Kevlar vest stood out under his T-shirt.
Baruti grimaced.
“Do you have one with you?” Harper asked.
The FBI agent shook his head. “No, it’s back with my gear.”
“Samuel could have walked away from that if he were wearing a vest.” Logan’s tone was hard, unyielding. They took a lot more risks in their line of work than most.
Harper continued to pace the small plane, ignoring the glares from the people operating the consoles of flashing lights and buttons.
This was madness.
They were tailing a plane. Who ever heard of a sky-high chase? Then again, Daar’s plane shouldn’t be aware of the stealth plane on its tail. With the cloud cover today, they should be able to fly all the way to DC undetected.
But what if things changed?
It had been chaos at the Hilton. Daar’s man had gotten away and left them to hold Samuel together until help arrived. But that didn’t mean they were without leads.
Robin was still wearing the necklace he’d given her. The necklace with a tracking device and a microphone within it.
By the time they’d left the Hilton, they’d been scrambling to catch up to Daar. Harper was glad that Logan and Baruti were there to coordinate with Zora because Harper had been almost out of his mind with worry. It only got worse after they’d found Cassim’s still warm body.
