Dark Hunt: A Ryan Weller Thriller by Evan Graver

Author:Evan Graver [Graver, Evan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Third Reef Publishing, LLC
Published: 2020-07-15T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Tampa International Airport

Tampa, Florida

The American Airlines Airbus A319 landed mid-afternoon, and Emily took an Uber to her apartment. She had a cozy one-bed, one-bath unit on the third floor of a gated building with an easterly view of the Courtney Campbell Causeway and a cove of Old Tampa Bay. She tossed her briefcase onto the counter and dropped her travel bag on the floor beside her bed. The laundry could wait until after she’d swam laps.

She was in the middle of changing into her swimsuit when her cell phone rang.

“Hey, Kaya. How are you?”

“I’m good. Can you come down to the station?”

“Sure, why?”

“We got a hit on the sketch.”

“Great.” Emily looked at the clock on her nightstand. “Will thirty minutes be all right?”

“I’ll see you then.”

Emily changed into a pair of dark slacks and a white blouse before getting into her four-door Jeep Wrangler. She had to control her speed on account of wanting to race through the streets to see Kaya’s results.

She downshifted the manual transmission as she approached a red light. When she came to a stop, she raked her hair back into a ponytail and pulled it through the band she kept on her wrist. Traffic seemed to get worse every day, and she hated it a little more every day.

The light turned green and she shoved the shifter into first, but not before someone several cars back beeped their horn. A small part of her fantasized about shutting off the motor and faking car trouble just to make the person wait, but she mashed the gas and shot away from the light. She was in a hurry herself.

At the police station, she asked to see Takao. A few minutes later, a short, attractive woman with jet black hair appeared and ushered Emily to a small conference room where two men in black suits were waiting. Both were average-looking, with no remarkable features. She suspected they were federal agents.

Kaya made the introductions: James Stickney and Charles Gordon were from the FBI. Both men shook Emily’s hand and asked where she had gotten the sketch of her suspect and why she had asked Takao to run it through the system.

Emily explained about the stolen ship and that the sketch depicted the pirate leader. “Why? What’s this all about?”

Stickney cleared his throat. “We’re not at liberty to say, Ms. Hunt, but thank you for coming in.”

“I came all the way down here and you’re not going to tell me who this guy is?” she asked.

“As I said, Ms. Hunt, we appreciate your cooperation,” Stickney said.

“That’s it?”

“Yes, ma’am,” the agent said. The two men stood and left the office.

“What was that all about?” Emily asked her friend.

“I’m going off duty now. How about we go get that glass of wine?”

“Okay, but first tell me what’s going on.”

Kaya led her out of the building to the street and they walked toward the Tampa Riverwalk. “After you sent the sketch, I tried to put it in the system, but I got a call from one of the tech guys who said there were some problems with it.

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