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“Pardon?”
“Didn’t you plant these in the mail at State?”
He could see Jordan was flustered for an answer. He shrugged, resigned to the fact he’d been found out.
“I did it for her.”
Dimitri pulled out the notes.
“Did you ever read these?”
“No. I just slipped them into your mailroom. It was rather easy. A week apart. She said it was her last chance for survival. That we all could count on you.”
Slicing through all the little factoids he still didn’t have figured out was the truth.
He’d do anything to find her and have one more chance at redemption. He wasn’t sure even he would survive if he didn’t do that.
Chapter Six
“Did you callher?” Jordan asked.
“Wanted to wait until I talked to you first. It’s her handwriting. How did you know for sure she’d sent it to you to give to me?”
“What makes you say that?”
“The way it was packaged. Nothing on the outside handwritten. Could have been packaged by someone else.”
“True. But it came to me just as you see it, in another sealed envelope. Sent from Italy. It’s from her, I know it is. You said that’s her number.”
“Which more than a few people know. That’s the number she’s had for years. How would she know the call was from me? If she’s in that much danger, what if my calling sets something up she can’t handle or I can’t get there soon enough to fix?”
“So then why did she put her number down? You think she wants you to ignore the message? She told me to give these to you.”
“How? Did you talk to her?”
“No, through her sister’s account. It was a text. She’s never signed as herself.”
Of course he was being overly cautious. He’d been holding back, holding the hope that she was still alive in a little box, stuffed in his underwear drawer in his heart. It wasn’t that he couldn’t take another scar—thathe could handle. A blind curveor wrong turn. Dead-end street. It was the fear that he’d put her in jeopardy. He felt he didn’t know enough yet to take that risk.
But his grouchy puppet self sat like the devil on his left shoulder, making snide comments, telling him he was a fool. He should just go for it. What else did he have to lose? How could he not answer her call to action? Who was he to second-guess maybe his last chance of seeing her again?
“Okay, I’ll call, but not from here.”
“Good idea. You have like a protected room at your office?”
“We do. But not sure I want to go on record for that. I have to sign up for it. I don’t want this call on any record anywhere. Besides, I’m supposed to be taking the week off next week.”
“Not technically next week yet. You could lie, but I get it. Then it’s important where you call from and from what phone. You have a relative outside of the D.C. area you could visit? Someone with no history of calling any agencies?” He chuckled.
“What’s so funny?”
“I was just thinking I don’t have to worry about this. Preferably you have a relative who isn’t wanted by the law or in prison or something.”
Even though Jordan was laughing, Dimitri wasn’t.
“Yeah. I’m glad you didn’t bring that up. I’ve got no one here except friends and the people I work for. Wouldn’t be a good thing to call from the president’s office, would it? But I do consider him a friend.”
“Very impressive. That would look good on a resume.”
