Page 86 of Sinner's Salvation

Chapter Ten

Anna watched Evan walkinto range of the hotel’s security camera monitoring the public elevator waiting area on the parking level as if he’d just parked his car.

Though his urban camo, gear, and weapons looked out of place.

She tracked him through the lobby and into the restaurant, where he sat down with his supervising handler.

A few people noted him passing through, some with just idle curiosity, while others were surprised. Like the FBI agents who were also in the restaurant.

Evan had a conversation with his boss, ordered and received coffee and breakfast, and shortly the FBI agents were invited to join them.

He continued to eat steadily, but not rushing.

His boss seemed almost too relaxed, and he was working hard on staying that way. Yet he tracked every movement inside the restaurant and whatever was in his field of vision of the lobby.

Someone or something was coming, and he knew it.

Anna searched the other security camera feeds, but couldn’t find anything obvious.

She glanced back at the restaurant camera in time to see the FBI agents leaving.

Evan’s boss finally dropped the relaxed pose and leaned forward with a grim smile. He spoke, but he did a good job of obscuring his mouth, so she had no idea what he said.

A minute or so of verbal exchange between the two men, then Evan got to his feet and left.

As he strode into the lobby, Anna focused on Evan’s boss’s face.Relief. The man had been so tense before, the difference in his appearance was almost night and day. His face wasn’t as square, his eyes were larger, and his mouth not nearly so flat.

She found Evan again in the elevator, going down. When she checked the lobby and the street directly out front of the hotel, several black SUVs pulled into the entrance. Three, four, no, five vehicles. Pairs of people got out of each SUV wearing matching black jackets and carrying handguns in their hands.

One of them turned around to yell at the others and she got a look at the back of the jacket.Homeland Security.

One corner of her upper lip curled up in a snarl.Bastards.

Where was Evan?

She found him getting off the elevator on the parking level and leaving the range of the camera. He was going in the direction of the lot or the entrance to the hidden tunnel system.

He wasn’t on any of the parking garage cameras.

Some of the Homeland Security agents dashed into the elevator and went down to the parking level. They, too, disappeared off the screen.

She waited, sitting on her hands because she was terrified she’d do something stupid if she left them loose.

After a couple of minutes, the agents returned to the elevator and went back up to the lobby. They joined a knot of agents who were in the lobby talking to Mason and Magnus. They shook their heads.

He got away.

Evan got away.

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