Charmed and Dangerous by Toni McGee Causey

Author:Toni McGee Causey
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks

Twenty-One

She got an A+ in demolition. Unfortunately, we weren’t teaching demolition that week.

—André Chapoy, high school shop teacher

Cam’s helicopter swooped low over the canals around the rig, staying well clear of the fire, but still close enough to see if any life rafts were nearby. The entire scene at the oil rig was on a loop in his mind, and he wanted it excised.

He pondered what could be driving Bobbie Faye to these lengths. Even if she’d intended to rob that bank, she wouldn’t have put this many people’s lives in jeopardy on purpose. She was crazy, but she was never intentionally cruel. He could give her that. Reluctantly. Something must be pushing her way beyond the normal level of insanity and the only thing—

He grabbed his phone, and as soon as Benoit answered, said, “Do we know where Bobbie Faye’s family is?”

He heard Benoit flipping through a few pages of reports.

“Nope, not yet.”

“Find ’em. Just verify their location and put someone on each of them.”

“Including the niece?”

“Absolutely.”

“Got it. I’ll call you back as soon as I’ve found ’em.”

He hung up, pissed that he hadn’t thought to find them earlier. One of them was bound to know what the hell was eating Bobbie Faye and, unlike Ce Ce, have no problems blabbing anything anyone wanted to know. He maybe could have stopped this insane chase an hour ago. How in the hell had he forgotten her siblings?

His phone vibrated on his hip and he snatched it open and shouted a little too forcefully, “Moreau here.”

“Uh, Cam?” Jason asked, breathless. “You okay?”

“Of course I am,” he spat, and he could visualize Jason flinching. “What’s up?”

“We’ve picked up a couple of survivors from the rig. A crane operator and a dock worker.”

“And?”

“They said they saw Bobbie Faye, but they don’t know if she made it off the rig before it exploded. The workers grabbed the first life raft and raced off toward the lake. The other life raft didn’t follow. We haven’t found it yet.”

“Keep me posted.”

“Will do. Oh. On that other thing we were talking about?”

“Yeah?”

“I’ve had a bit of a breakthrough. Call me from a land line as soon as you can.”

They hung up, and Cam debated which was more pressing: hearing what Jason had learned or finding that other life raft before the FBI grabbed it. Bobbie Faye could be injured, bleeding.

Or dying. The imagery of the explosion was on constant repeat. Geez, he needed a new brain.

Cam directed the helicopter to land near the marina and he ran for one of the pay phones out on the pier. When he dialed Jason, he was greeted with, “Hello, Mrs. Lee. I’ve got that information for you around here somewhere. Is there a number where I can call you back?” Cam read off the pay phone number and within a couple of minutes, it rang.

“What the hell was that?” he asked Jason.

“I wanted to switch to a secure line and I didn’t want anyone picking up your cell line and recording this.

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