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I nodded. “Go with him.”
Terry rose as ordered. “Suck it up, Kitty.”
Her face contorted as she stood.
“I’ll be right back,” Terry said.
Duke chewed. “No hurry.” He and Terry shared a look.
After the door closed behind them, I nodded toward the door. “Do you think I put her in danger by bringing her here?” That possibility was sickening.
Duke scooped up some rice. “Nope, but this will give them a chance to talk privately. Maybe it’ll help.”
CHAPTER 33
Duke
Thursday morning,I walked Serena into work. “One more time.”
She sighed. “Stay in the car, and if I feel threatened, say so because you can hear me. You and Lucas will be behind us and come to the rescue. If something happens in the building, do what they say like a good little girl. Or, fall down like a helpless little girl because you may not be able to hear me.”
“That’s right.” I hadn’t included the good-little-girl part, but she’d gotten the gist of the instructions. “The mic in your bra is only good for fifty or a hundred yards. We can hear the one in the car for miles.”
I waved goodbye, and a minute later, she was through security. “Safely inside,” I said on comms.
“Copy that,” Lucas confirmed.
“Trackers active,” Jordy added.
I walked back and slid into the company Porsche Cayenne I was driving for this tail job. It didn’t have the visibility of the Suburban, but that meant it blended in better. With its twin-turbo V8, it also had more speed, if that was called for. As I buckled up, Lucas gave me a wave from his Cayenne. With different colored vehicles, we’d switch up the forward and tail positions. Now, it was time to wait.
At nine o’clock, Serena and her friend Katelyn exited the building.
Serena went to the driver’s side like I’d told her to, and after some discussion, the other woman went around to the passenger side.
I waited for them to pull out of the parking space and checked my phone for the tracker Jordy had supplied. It worked perfectly. One of the four icons on my screen moved with their little white car.
“Moving out,” I said as I followed them.
“Taking back position,” Lucas confirmed.
Jordy had to put trackers on each of the four EPA cars in the reserved section. Serena had told me they were taking Katelyn’s car, but we didn’t know which one that was.
If Serena had been alone, I could have followed directly behind and not risked losing her, but with her coworker along, we’d have to stay back. That was easy on the freeway, but tricky in town.
Lucas had felt it was good to learn Leo Gambino had been the first of a series of three victims. I wasn’t so sure since we still had no inkling of the motive.
After three lights, I relaxed. The traffic signals were timed well enough that I wouldn’t lose them. Then, a brown UPS truck pulled out in front of me and inched along before stopping again.
“Shit.” I pounded the wheel as I waited for the smallest gap in the neighboring lane to get around this fucker. When I got free, the light ahead had turned red. On my phone, Serena’s icon continued moving.
I pressed comms. “I missed the light. They’re getting ahead of me.”
“No issues,” Jordy said. “I have them still on track.”
“Shifting one block east to make up time,” Lucas announced.
Serena
