Total pages in book: 155
Estimated words: 146417 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 732(@200wpm)___ 586(@250wpm)___ 488(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 146417 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 732(@200wpm)___ 586(@250wpm)___ 488(@300wpm)
“They filmed Game of Thrones there,” Hutch said with a geeked-out smile.
“You think Kim is at Fort Saint Angelo?” Beck asked.
The door to Tag’s office came open and Adam Miles strode in. “I’ve got it. The report doesn’t lie. It’s one hundred percent her. That was an amazing call, Hutch. Are you sure you don’t want to come work downstairs?”
Tag growled Adam’s way. “Do not poach my employees. Unless it’s one of the kids. You can’t have Tash, but the twins are ready to work.”
Adam rolled his eyes. “Not on your life.” He turned Beck’s way. “Hey, man. You ready for this?”
He’d been ready for years. He nodded.
Adam handed him a folder. “These were taken by CCTV in the town of Birgu, Malta. She’s walking on the road that leads to the wharf and up to the fort.”
He stared at the series of shots. Her head was down in almost all of them, but he would recognize that blonde hair anywhere, and the set of her shoulders. She wore a long sundress with spaghetti straps, and he could easily see the scar she’d gotten in Colorado.
But then he got to one photo where her head came up and a smile lit her face like she’d seen someone she cared about. That smile kicked him right in the gut.
She was still so beautiful it hurt.
“Is she happy?”
“Dude, we just figured out she’s alive,” Tag said. “We do not know the state of her joy.”
“Ian.” Charlotte knew exactly how to make her husband’s name a warning. “Beck, this intel is so new, I haven’t seen those pictures yet. You’re sure it’s her?”
He stared down at that photo. It was the first tangible evidence he’d seen that she was alive. He’d always believed it, but here she was. “Yes.”
“You have to know I’ve been looking for years,” Adam said. “Ian put me on this, and he’s been on my ass all this time. He doesn’t understand that I can’t hack into every single CCTV system in the world. It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack. Usually when I’m looking for a missing person, I at least have some clue where he or she’s gone. My starting point was Paris. Also, I’m not usually tracking down highly trained operatives.”
He’d known Adam’s group had been working on the problem, but he’d thought that they considered it a cold case. “I thank you for this.”
Adam gave him a nod. “Once Hutch told me to look into this particular section of Malta, I came up with those pictures pretty fast. Phoebe immediately looked into property around the area and she thinks Solo bought a building near the marina around four years ago. It’s not in her name, but Phoebe pulled a couple of strings and it led back to a holding company Solo used to purchase the property we found she owned in Sydney. This street she’s walking on is the same as where the building is located. There’s a bookstore on the ground floor. We’ve got some of our people working on getting more data. Hopefully within twenty-four hours we’ll know more.”
“I want to be on a plane by then.” He couldn’t take his eyes off her. What had she been through in the last seven years? When she thought of him, did she still hear the last angry words out of his stupid, selfish mouth? “I don’t have to make contact if you think it’s for the best, but I need to check the situation out.”
“I thought you would feel that way. I called Damon and let him know I need to borrow Robert to work out the logistics.” Tag moved in and looked down at the pictures. “She looks good. Healthy. Not under Levi Green’s thumb.”
It was what they’d all worried about. It kept him up at night, the fear that somehow Levi had found her and had her hidden. “Do we have eyes on him?”
Tag nodded. “I’ve also got a call in to my contact there. Drake still keeps up with Levi. He’s on an assignment, but he usually replies within twenty-four hours or so. Levi is in Europe. He’s in Berlin meeting with some senior intelligence officers.”
He didn’t like the fact that they were on the same continent. “How long has he been there and when is he supposed to come back?”
“He’s scheduled to be in meetings for the next three days,” Charlotte replied. “After that, Levi has a flight scheduled for the night the conference ends. He’s supposed to be back in DC ten hours later.”
“I want to make sure he’s on that flight.” This was a delicate time. If he watched Levi, he was fairly certain Levi still watched him. Levi definitely watched McKay-Taggart. “If we send a team over, he’s going to know it. I might be able to get there on my own if I’m careful.”