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He winced. “To save a bunch of women and children who were being held captive. Honestly, I’m not even sure why he sent me. It was a suicide mission. There was no way on or off the island that would actually work.”
“If you had to guess?” Cash asked.
FNG thought about it a moment. “I would say it was more of a scouting mission. I think Rafe wanted to see if I would make it onto the island and what I could find out.”
“Did he ever ask you about it?”
He shook his head. “Nope. But you should have seen the equipment Rafe had. All high-tech shit. He was watching me the whole time. Everything I saw, he saw also.”
Cash nodded slightly. “So, if there was something he needed to see?—”
“I was his eyes. I just didn’t realize it at the time.”
I wasn’t sure FNG could help us in any way. “Even if we could figure out what Rafe is after, we still don’t know the when or how.”
“You know…Rafe said something about a woman on the island…” FNG said thoughtfully. “Something about how she knew all the inside information into his organization, and without her, the whole mission would fail.”
“Why not just take Zavala?” I questioned. “He would know the operations better than a woman who was staying there.”
“He didn’t say. But it had that ominous feeling to it, you know? This woman is the key, but I have no idea who she is or how Rafe planned to turn her. And that was the only time he spoke of her.”
Cash sighed. “Short of being inside Rafe’s mind, I don’t know how we’d find out who’s on the private island.”
“We don’t.”
“Libby might know,” FNG said.
“No, when I said to Rafe that I had information about his endgame, Libby didn’t know what he was talking about. She’s in the dark as much as you are, Cash.”
“This is ridiculous,” he muttered. “We’re not doing this. If he doesn’t want help, there’s nothing I can do,” he said, rolling up the map.
“He’s planning something,” I argued.
“He’s always planning something,” Cash spat. “He always has his own agenda, and he never tells anyone. I can’t do anything about that.”
I was getting way too wrapped up in this shit. He was right. I passed on the information I had, but there was nothing more he or I could do. “You’re right. Enough said.”
“Let’s just get back to work. Nick, you’re off for the next week. Go home and pretend you never heard any of this.”
I fully intended to take the next week off, and I wouldn’t think about Rafe or his mission at all. I had someone else I was much more interested in. “See you in a week.”
I headed out of the office and down the hall to the elevator. I already asked Rae to look into Raven. With any luck, she had some intel for me. As I strolled into the IT room, I saw an image of Raven pulled up on the screen. It was a grainy shot, but I’d recognize her anywhere.
“You found her.”
“Of course I did,” she snorted. “Who do you think I am? Dash?”
“Hey,” he swiveled in his chair to face her. “I could have found her if I’d been asked.
“But he didn’t ask you because he wanted the best. You would have been ten minutes too late and five steps behind.”
“I guess we’ll never know,” Dash said, narrowing his eyes at Rae.
“So, what did you find?”
“She’s a ghost.”
“Sorry?”
