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“Would you feel okay if you stayed overnight with Alana?”
Bridget clapped. “I would love it.”
“You have to listen to Dee and Micah. And if you get scared, make sure you have Dee call me.”
“I promise.” She gave her a kiss, turned and ran toward the house.
“I can get you a few things together for her.”
Dee shook her head. “I got that, if you don’t mind.”
“Okay.”
“Alana is going to have a blast. I’ll call and let you know how it’s going.”
She followed Bridget back up the dock and to the house. Alicia and Sean watched her go.
“You know your father didn’t do anything treasonous,” he said.
She nodded. “I know. But now I wonder just what the hell he was into. And just how it all ended up getting him killed.”
“Hawaii?” the former agent asked. “What the bloody hell are they doing there?”
“I’m not sure and we aren’t sure exactly where they are at the moment.”
“What the bloody fucking hell does that mean?”
“Once they arrived, they disappeared. Devon Stryker has little to no presence on the islands, but his sister does. We could use her as bait.”
The former agent snorted. “That’s brilliant.” Sarcasm dripped from every word. “No, we keep this low key. We can find her and Stryker soon enough.”
The helper nodded.
“Get the arrangements made, but use one of our lesser known aliases.”
He nodded. “You and I?”
“Yes. I have an idea on how to draw her out, and it will take more than one of us to make it work.”
He nodded and left the room as the former agent sat back to plan the trip. Finally, this would end and life would be returned to the plans made so many years earlier.
Alicia Hughes just had to die…and then everything would be right again.
Fifteen
About an hour later, they were done. Ali had returned for a few minutes while they discussed certain areas they should search. It was agreed that Maura would do most of the computer work. While they weren’t sure if Devon had been detected, it wasn’t a good idea to take a chance. Devon had no problems with that as long as he was kept in the loop.
He walked to the door with Conner.
“You will not go play on your computer.”
A statement not a question. “I promise.”
Conner gave him a look that told Devon he didn’t believe that comment.
“Just stay off any searches that would lead to Ali. Do anything that’s normal for you. If you are being monitored, we want them to think nothing has changed. The story has been filtered out through the club that Micah’s worried about the baby, so you came home early.”
“Some semblance of the truth is always the best.”
