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Her heart almost stopped right then and there.
“Yes. In fact, they’re staying down in Waikiki, although we haven’t been able to pinpoint it exactly. The closest we could get is three blocks. But my bet is whoever they are, they are staying at one of the hotels.”
She would be able to contact the traitor. It was a number she’d avoided using in the past, but now, she would.
“Do you have any backup tonight?” Conner asked.
“Devon’s here,” she said, trying to come up with a way to get out of the house undetected.
“I mean for both of you. If you want, I can stay.”
“When Devon gets done with Rory, we’ll see what he says. Can you excuse me for a moment?”
He nodded and she slipped out of the room. As she walked up the stairs, her mind started racing. She should have known something was going on. Every turn in the case had been reported by one person. The one person she thought she had been protecting.
Other people would never catch on to who it was. In fact, she might be the only person alive who could connect all the dots. The name was the giveaway. She dressed as fast as she could. She grabbed her Glock and strapped her knife holder to her ankle. After grabbing her knife, she slipped it into the holder. She turned toward the door, but she stopped. There was only one person on her mind for so long, now she had two.
Both of them were in her heart and he needed to know how she felt. And she needed to provide for her daughter.
She grabbed a piece of paper and wrote down a few words, explaining what she was doing and where she was going. And she did the one thing she thought she would never do before ending the note. She placed it on the dresser in plain sight, and this time, she slipped out down the stairs and out of the house.
After getting off the phone, Devon and Conner discussed the possibilities of who it could be. It would have to be someone her father knew and someone who was still around. That really narrowed the field, but not enough. After a while Devon realized it had been close to thirty minutes since Ali left the room.
Devon stepped out of the office.
“What’s wrong?” Conner said as he followed him out.
Devon shook his head and walked up the stairs. The sense of urgency growing with each step he took. He made it to the top of the stairs and ran down to her room.
“Ali!” No answer. And no one in the room. He ran through the bathroom to the other bedroom and found it empty too.
He knew there had been something wrong, but he’d thought it was something else. She had been tired and all the information was a little too much for even him to take.
“Dev,” Conner yelled. Devon ran back in and found Conner holding a piece of stationary.
He handed it over and pulled out his phone.
Devon,
Well, it’s my turn to run. This is my fight not yours. It was never yours. I know that now. My father had only looked at your research to know the person responsible for this problem.
I am leaving this note for you. And, there is information in my safe deposit box and in my bag. It names you as the father of my child. Please, if I don’t return from this, love her like I do. You are the only person I trust her to. Protect her. She is the most precious thing to me on this earth and beyond.
Love,
Ali
He looked up and found Conner hanging up this phone. “I talked to Sean since he knew them. There is one person that came to mind. Her cousin.”
He shook his head trying to piece it all together.
“How did Sean know?”
“The first job he ever worked with MI-6 on a joint task force had one grating person, and that was Millicent Hughes. Her name on the job was Xan Winslow.”
The name clicked. “Fuck.”
“Exactly.”
