Page 93 of Guarding the Singer

"Okay," she followed after Gary, almost on his heels as they exited the plane. "Thanks, Gary. This is huge."

He matched her speed as they left the tarmac, only stopping for a minute to talk to one of the security guards on the private airfield. He waved them along and headed to her plane to watch it until they returned, and Selene went with Gary to his rental car.

"This is so great of you." She slipped into the front passenger seat. "If I had to go looking for a cab, that might have taken forever."

"It's not so bad. I'm just not used to driving you around on the ground." He gestured toward the GPS screen. "Could you plug the address in? New York isn't somewhere I'm familiar with."

She understood. It was the reason why she was happy to have someone on the production staff pick her up and take her to set. She opened her phone and got the address for Cooper's home into the GPS screen and then texted Mandy to tell her that she was on her way.

Looking down at her phone, she knew she should tell William.

She changed to his entry in her phone and typed out a message, then decided she should just call him.

It would be faster, and in the car, it might be a little too bumpy to make much sense.

She dialed William's number and lifted it up closer to her ear.

It rang.

And rang again.

Then it clicked and she let out a breath.

"Will? I-"

"Leave me a message at the beep."

She lowered the phone and looked at the screen.

Huh. It almost went straight to messaging.

She was tempted to try to call back again, but then she heard the beep.

"Hey. It's me. Sorry to bother. Something is wrong with Cooper. I'm headed over to his house. If you get this..."

The call ended and she looked at the screen to make sure. It was her home screen.

She frowned at it for a moment, but set aside the thought.

She'd try again later.

William waited in the TSA pre-check line with Badger.

There were still half a dozen people in front of them, so he had his phone out, looking for any messages he'd missed while they'd been dropping Selene off at the private hangar.

There wasn't anything new.

Or any calls.

Badger leaned in. "Something wrong?"

William turned his screen toward Badger. "Justchecking to see if there was anything I missed while we were dropping Selene at her plane."

Badger nodded. "Nothing from her?"

William shook his head. "I wasn't expecting anything from her, but there hasn't been anything at all."

Frowning at him, Badger reached into his pocket, took out his phone and unlocked it.

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