Page 121 of Wrecked
Chapter 37
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Kovac had been so nervoussince his last conversation with W, he’d stayed in his office waiting on word of Hallene’s death.
Had the text messages on his computer reached whatever hacker that bitch had used to get inside his computer? He felt violated by someone not worth wiping his feet on.
His assistant buzzed him. W had used her phone to call Kovac the last time. For that reason alone, he replied to her promptly whenever she contacted him.
“Yes?”
“A package for you has arrived, Sir, and you are the only one who can sign for it. I tried, but—”
“Not a problem. I’ll be right out.” He hurried to the door and paused to smooth his hair. He would not appear as some scared rabbit.
Stepping out of his office, the first thing he noticed was how the delivery guy was not some Joe waiting to get a signature and leave.
This one had a bulge under his loose uniform shirt.
Kovac smiled and signed quickly, accepting a box no larger than the one a custom set of sunglasses had arrived in weeks ago.
When the delivery guy didn’t scan the label, Kovac’s assistant said, “Don’t you need to—”
The man’s eyes darkened.
Kovac quickly said, “It’s fine. Thank you.”
When the guard left, Kovac hurried back into his office and ripped the package open to find a nondescript black mobile phone. He’d just lifted it out of the box when it rang. “Kovac.”
“This is last check. You are certain all is ready, yes?”
Kovac had requested updates on his ship every thirty minutes until it had stopped three hundred miles off the US coast. He’d warned the ship’s captain to alert him if anything like a typhoon came up. Otherwise, stay put.
“Yes,” Kovac replied.
“You sound confident.”
“I am. There is no way I’d let you down.”
W said, “I require one more thing from you.”
Hesitating only because he did not want to commit to a job that he wasn’t absolutely sure he could perform, Kovac said, “Yes?”
“You are hesitant. Is there problem?”
“Not if I have enough time left to deliver, none at all.”
“Time is of no worry. I intend to keep Phoebe.”
Kovac wouldn’t care if not for having a loose end floating around that could strangle him. “You agreed to return her if I met my commitments. I have.”
