Page 165 of State of Alert

“She’s a sales rep for a food company.”

“That’s not usually considered dangerous.”

“No, it isn’t, but something isn’t right. I know it.”

“What can I do?”

“Would it be wrong for me to ask you to put one of your people on looking into it and figuring out where she is?”

Sam thought about that for a second. Technically, the answer was yes, it would be wrong, but Archie was always there for her and her team, and she wanted to help him out if she could. “Give me everything you have on her, and I’ll take it from there.”

“Yourself?”

“Probably not.”

“Who will you put on it?”

“Does that matter?”

“No, I guess it doesn’t.”

“I promise it’ll be handled with the utmost discretion.”

“Thank you.” He ripped a sheet of paper out of a notebook and handed it to her. “No digital paper trail, right?”

“Right.”

“Thanks, Sam.”

“You’re welcome. Try to chill. I’m sure there’s a perfectly good explanation for whatever’s going on.”

“I hope you’re right.”

“I usually am.”

He grunted out a laugh. “Walked right into that one.”

“Yes, you did.”

“I heard Ramsey disrupted the funeral this morning.”

“Yep.”

“What the hell could he be thinking?”

“He quit thinking a long time ago.”

“Malone told me they’re pushing to keep him in lockup until he stands trial on the other charges he’s facing. Enough is enough.”

“Glad to hear it. I agree on the enough part.”

“Thought you would. What’s the latest with the Myerson case?”

“The younger daughter was found bound and gagged in a motel room in Ohio, which leads me to believe that things between her and her sister went south on the road. She’s being treated in the hospital now and will be delivered back here by the marshals later today. They’re still looking for the other sister and her boyfriend.”

“You think they killed the mother?”

“There’s not a single scrap of evidence leading in any other direction than right back to them. The fact that theyran—and abandoned the sister—doesn’t help their case either.”

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