Chapter 56

Eli and Yager’s departure left him with the stoic Stuart and Ven as guard. When he attempted to initiate a conversation with Ven, she shook her head and cut a glance toward the agent working diligently at the desk. He got the message. Not here. Even Ven didn’t trust these guys completely.

Without anything definitive to do, he wandered over to the desk to watch Stuart at work. She’d barely said two words since arriving, and seemed determined to make herself as unobtrusive as possible. Eli had regarded her with appropriate mistrust, relaxing only when Jarrett prompted him about their real reason for coming in, and now she toiled to integrate whatever programs she’d had on her machine with the data she was now downloading from Eli’s.

“Sandora has to be close to the pick-up point,” Jarrett said, more to break up the silence than anything else. “Did you limit your search on the email to a specific area there?”