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The man took another bite of his donut. “Cool. I’m all about making things disappear.”
CHAPTER NINE
“This is going to work, right?” Conner stood, one hand wrapped around the bar of his cell. “You got this.”
Kyle peered through the door. “Yeah. There’s no reason this guy would know about Liza—”
“It’s the NSA. They make it their business to know. We need to post a tail...”
“I think your buddy Micah has it covered.” He held the cell door open, and Micah walked in, Reuben, Seth, and Romeo on his tail.
“Hey,” Conner said. “Sit-rep.”
“He must have stopped for the night. GPS has Blankenship just outside of town. He’ll be coming here, if he’s following the signal, and Kyle will let him in.”
“I hate this.”
“It’s the safest place for you, Conner,” Kyle said. “We have eyes and ears everywhere. If you want to confront him, and get any confession on tape, do it here.”
Micah nodded. “And Pete is tailing Liza. He’ll keep an eye on her until we wrap this up.”
“What if he’s armed?” Conner said.
“Not in here, he won’t be,” Kyle said.
It made sense—all of it. After he’d spilled the entire story for Kyle, and convinced the deputy to let Jim Micah into the conversation, Kyle had come up with a plan. Or at least an idea, which Micah and Conner fleshed out.
He’d confirmed their story with Danny Boy’s cell phone, and even located Blankenship on the map, courtesy of Conner’s GPS program, which they’d pulled down from the cloud.
Blankenship would be expecting his shooter pal at the other end of his trip. Which meant that Kyle would be here to greet him, let him into a visitor-slash-interrogation room.
Surprise him with a hello from Conner. Then, locked inside the room, Conner would extract—politely—answers from Blankenship.
“Nobody gets hurt,” Kyle had said a couple times.
Micah had raised an eyebrow behind Kyle’s back that said,We’ll see.
Conner had spent the rest of the night pacing in his cell, four corners he knew well by the time Liza had shown up. Beautiful, concerned Liza. Who took in the story almost without blinking.
I want you to be all mine. But I also want this to be over for you. So get answers, but please, Conner, be careful too.
Yes. And he’d meant his words about walking away from smoke jumping, despite the fist in his chest.
“Show time,” Micah said.
“Stay put. Stay calm,” Kyle said as he let the troupe out.
Conner met Micah’s gaze a second before the door closed.
Please, God.
He hadn’t prayed much—if at all—since getting Blue’s call, but now...
Wow, he wanted to be a soccer dad. Build a life, a home, a family with this amazing woman. But he needed to shut the door on Justin’s death.
Keep his promise to find his killer.
Help me find answers.
