Deceptive by Sara Rosett

Author:Sara Rosett [Rosett, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Mystery
Amazon: B00DY5YL12
Goodreads: 18206518
Publisher: Author
Published: 2013-07-14T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

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THE flight was uneventful, except that Zoe’s heartbeat fluttered whenever Anna’s head moved. The airline was a low cost carrier with no assigned seats. Zoe and Jack had managed to snag two seats together a few rows behind Anna. Jack—of course—went to sleep as soon as the plane pushed back from the gate, leaving Zoe to fidget and watch the back of Anna’s head. After the drink cart came through, Zoe took the sheaf of Anna’s emails Carla had printed for her. Zoe had skimmed through most of them on the transatlantic flight, but nothing had stood out then. She kept her head down and read, doing her best to ignore the bursts of turbulence as they crossed the Alps.

A few pages from the end, Zoe found another airline reservation confirmation. “How did I miss this?” she whispered to herself. Anna had traveled to Dubai in January. They were about to land so Zoe woke Jack and told him what she’d found.

Jack rubbed his eyes and stretched. “Anything else about Dubai?”

“Nothing. No hotel reservations, tours, or anything. Why do you go to Dubai? It’s not exactly a vacation capital. Or is it?” Zoe asked. About the only thing she knew about the city was its connection to the oil industry.

“It’s a business capital and a transportation hub for the region. It could have been a transfer point for her.”

“I don’t think so,” Zoe said. “It’s the same pattern as this trip. Fly in one day, back to Naples the next.”

“Naples was her departure and return city for that trip, too?” Zoe nodded, and Jack said, “That’s good. She’s probably living somewhere around here, so we may not have far to go.”

They didn’t have time to talk more because the plane had landed. There was the usual crush of people standing, pulling bags out of the overhead bins, and the push to get out of the plane. Anna whipped her suitcase out of the overhead bin and scooted down the aisle before they could get close to her to plant Zoe’s phone.

The Naples airport didn’t have covered jet ways that connected to the planes. Instead, two buses idled at the bottom of the air stairs. They followed Anna to the first bus where she snagged a seat and put her suitcase and leather purse in her lap, then rested her arms on them. Zoe shot Jack an exasperated look.

As the bus lumbered away from the plane, Zoe’s phone lit up. She had it set on SILENT, so it wouldn’t make any noise if it rang or she got a text, but the feature let her know she had an incoming text. “It’s another photo,” she said to Jack. Her heart thumped while she waited for the picture to load, and her palm felt slippery on the metal pole she held. She was expecting another photo of Helen, but a picture of her Aunt Amanda filled the screen. Zoe’s heart sank. “Not her, too.” The photo had been snapped in the produce section of a grocery store as her aunt examined fat tomatoes.

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