Asher by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773362106
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2020-02-18T16:00:00+00:00

Asher studied his sideview mirror. “You see what I’m seeing?”

“Yes,” Ryker said, checking out his rearview mirror as he shifted lanes. “I’ve been watching them weaving in the traffic. They’ve been on our tail for the last five minutes or so.”

“Think it’s on purpose?”

“Hard to say,” Ryker said. “I would have thought we’d gotten away free and clear but …”

“It’s possible that we’ve been followed the whole time, and there have enough different people and cars to pass off to the next guy and the next guy and then next one. So we don’t realize we’ve got a tag team of people following us. The question is who though?”

“Exactly. Do we have a double-cross happening?”

Asher looked at him. “Okay, that’s something I hadn’t considered. In what way?”

“What if the brothers were paid to take the twins, but then somebody saw an opportunity to either remove the twins from their care and demand more money or the brothers themselves decided they needed more money to look after them?”

“So, the original person who ordered their kidnapping hired somebody else to take them away?” Asher thought about it. “And the trouble is, once again, we don’t have any answers.” He looked down at his laptop. “We are getting steady satellite feeds in and along the coast and any number of boats that we’re looking for.”

“Ask if anyone is tracking the name of the boat yet.”

Just then a message came through. “The chat box located Awan Hania, the boat owner’s family.”

“Should we start there?”

“No point,” Asher said, his voice darkening. “Apparently a house fire took them out this morning.”

“Odd coincidence,” Ryker said, his voice low and soft, deadly.

“Ugly coincidence,” Asher said. “I wonder if anybody knows yet.”

“Meaning, the guy whose boat the twins are on?”

“Yeah, because, if he isn’t dead already, he’ll go into hiding as soon as he finds out. I doubt he’ll see the fire as accidental.”

“Depends if he lives on the edge of the law or if this is his first time doing something like this,” Ryker said. “He’s also likely to dump his cargo.”

“We must stop that from happening. I suggest we head to the house fire first.”

“Instead of the dock?”

“They’re pretty close together,” Asher said.

As that first stop was only a couple miles away, they made their way to the smoking ruins of the house. It had been put out by the local fire department, but it had damaged another house on one side. Other than that though, no further damage had been done to the surrounding neighborhood.

“The fire seems to be very isolated,” Ryker said.

“Definitely arson,” Asher said in a harsh voice. “If autopsies are done, I’m sure they’ll find the bodies were dead first.” He turned and said, “I’ll ask around. Can you stay with her?”

She popped her head up from the back seat. “I’m fine here,” she said. “Just let me sleep.”

He snorted, shook his head, and said, “No, that’s one of the dangers of you coming with us. Somebody has to be with you at all times.

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