“Take care. If this guy is behind this, he’s not working alone. He knows how to cover his tracks. As I said, they came up empty-handed when the team went in. All I’m saying is, be careful.”
“I will,” I say, my brain now firing wildly, trying to link together what I’ve learned.
“Before I go, just so you’re aware, it’s outside my remit, but I caught wind of it. I don’t know what he has planned. But someone is going after the youngest Frazer.”
My heart sinks. “Lottie?”
“No, Harper Frazer. There’s chatter but no details.”
“Shit,” I hiss.
Harper is finally getting her life together after her father’s death. The last thing she needs is to be derailed by some old man with a vendetta.
“Thank you, Needle.”
“There she goes,” he chuckles. “Don’t worry, I’ll only come calling if it’s a life-or-death emergency.”
“Make sure it is.”
He ends the call as I pull up to the hotel.
Kat is waiting at the entrance.
“It’s okay. I can fix this,” I say. “We just need to take a detour to the library.”
Kat frowns but leads the way.
When we arrive, I feel around under the desk, smiling as I pull out the flash drive. I look up at the camera in the corner, knowing Needle will be watching. It’s what we do. When I said he was a ghost, I wasn’t lying. I was, when I was working with him.
“What’s that?” Kat asks.
“The vaccine,” I say. “I want to check it first, but it should reverse the virus.”
She stares at me.
“I don’t want to know, do I?”
I shake my head. “No, you definitely don’t.”
CHAPTER 62
ELIJAH
Pen returns a while later and I sense immediately something is wrong. I’ve been pacing the floor after her call.
“We need to apprehend him,” I say.
“No, we don’t. I promise he knows no more than we do,” I say. Needle is a first-class prick, but I’m not going to mess up his cover. “He gave us all he knows.”
“What the hell do these people want with Harper?” I ask, running a hand through my hair.
“That’s what we need to find out. I know it’s hard, but we need to be sensible. If we go in all guns blazing, we could make this worse,” Pen says, squeezing my arm. “Tell me what happened last year?”
“Not a lot. I made it clear to him that if he or any of his cronies went near April, there would be consequences.”
“What did you threaten him with?” Pen raises an eyebrow.
“A few skeletons he thought he’d hidden. I made him aware he wasn’t above the law, whatever his title, I’d hand my findings over to the police.”
