“He thought of everything didn’t he?” Lucas asked.
“Seems so, we are trying to get the plane's black box,” January said running a hand through his already short brown hair.
“Who knew he was being transferred?”
“Everyone in this room besides you.”
“All right, what do you want from me? Everything I knew about Gianni was in my report.”
“It’s not what we need from you, it’s what we want you to do,” said another agent Lucas had never seen before but thought he resembled someone he knew but couldn’t place. He looked to be around his age with short curly blond hair and green-blue eyes.
“Who the fuck are you?” Lucas demanded.
“Seth Harrison, code name Ghost,” he introduced with a perfect British accent extending his hand. Lucas shook it and was about to introduce himself. “No need, I know who you are, in fact, everyone around here sings the Hamilton duo team's praises.”
“Thanks, but you guys still haven’t answered my question. Why am I here?”
“We need you to find him,” Ghost said.
“The fuck you do,” Lucas yelled. “I gave this up for a reason, or did it slip your mind?” He directed his question to January who knew he was asking Lucas to do the impossible. He would be able to find Gianni, that wasn’t the problem, but when he walked away from Seekers, it was because he’d lost Rebecca and had to be the father that Zoi needed.
“Who cares why you left, don’t you care?” Seth asked him. “Don’t you care that he’s out there and could come after you and your family. We need you to find him since you’re the only one who spent a lot of time with him and knows how he thinks.”
“Listen, asshole, I can protect my family just fine,” Lucas seethed.Why don’t I like this guy and I just met him? Maybe it’s his British accent. No, that’s not it.
“What . . .”
“Stand down, Shadow,” Agent January snapped. “Look, Lucas, we need you on this, you’re the only agent I know that got close to Gianni. We’ve checked every safe house we got from your reports . . .”
“Let me guess, they were all empty or destroyed,” Lucas said.
“Yeah,” Seth answered.
“How long ago did all this happen?”
“We are going on forty-eight hours,” January said.
“Then you won’t find him in Europe. He’s already stateside.” Lucas walked over to one of the IT analysts. “Search for the name Antonio Barzetti and what time he arrived in the United States.” He leaned close to the analyst and waited for the information he needed to come up on the screen. The search wouldn’t take very long, the Seeker organization had the best of the best in everything. It also begged the question as to why they could not find Gianni. He nodded and was happy when he saw a picture of a man with a bearded face, long salt-and-pepper hair and a killer smile who was looking directly at the camera. Lucas knew it was Alphonso Gianni. “Do a facial recognition with the photo we have on file for Gianni, also tell me where and when did he arrive.”
“Yes, sir.”
Lucas turned to Seth and January. “Once you get your information, go after him. He will be using that name. I don’t think he’ll remember that he told me that name one night when he was too drunk to remember his own name.”And the night Gianni tried to make a pass at him and got completely heated when I turned him down flat.
“Why the name?” Seth asked.
“It was the name of his mentor and former boss.”
“Wait, but didn’t he kill him?” January asked.
“Yes, so if I were you, I would find him quickly. I wasn’t the only one who betrayed him.”
“What do you mean by that?” Seth asked him.
The guy was really getting on his nerves.Didn’t he do his research?“It means the wife and daughter are in trouble as well. They betrayed him and are the ones who are living their lives somewhere in the United States and have no fucking idea that their tormentor is out of jail. And, make no mistake, Gianni is a man hell-bent on revenge and has no problem killing his own flesh and blood.”
“Fuck, we forgot about that.” Seth walked away from them and over to the same analyst.
How the fuck did they forget about that?
