Fair in War (The Accidental Cases of Emily Abbott Book 8) by Perry Kirkpatrick

Author:Perry Kirkpatrick [Kirkpatrick, Perry]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-11-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Emily stared at Brent for a long moment. “Is it wrong I kind of want to tail my own dad and see why he's here?”

Brent looked sideways at her. “I wouldn’t expect anything less of an amateur spy, to be honest.”

Emily set the binoculars down abruptly and rolled to the side in order to retrieve her phone from her pocket. She quickly tapped out a message to her father:

Hi, Dad. Hope you’re feeling okay. Did you go to the doctor?

She pressed “ send ” and then picked up the binoculars again, training them on the spot where her dad lurked. He had just slipped the phone he’d been holding into his right pocket.

Don’t put it away just yet, Dad. You’re about to get a message.

After a moment of staring around at the crowd passing his hiding place, he reached into his left pocket and pulled out a phone.

Emily frowned behind the binoculars.

Her father read the message and appeared to sigh before he put the phone away without replying.

“Brent? Either my dad is doing magic tricks… or he has two phones, one in each pocket. My dad hates technology! Why would he have two phones?”

Brent cleared his throat, and Emily looked at him. “Well…” he said. “I can tell you why I would have two phones.”

“I know why you would have two phones. You’d have one as your main phone and one as a burner for a mission. But you’re a spy. I expect that from you.”

She looked back into the binoculars, fine-tuning where they were pointed until she could see her father again.

He was looking at the screen of the other phone, frowning.

“I gotta go down there,” Emily said, passing the binoculars back to Brent and tucking her phone securely into her pocket. She scooted back from the edge of the roof. “Is the ladder still all connected? I can just lower it and climb down?”

“Emily, wait,” Brent put a hand on her arm.

Something in his voice made her look at him sharply.

He stared at her for a long moment, his mouth in a firm line. He seemed to be deliberating something.

“Brent, what is it?”

“I want you to stay close, or vice versa: I need to stay with you.” He paused.

“I’ll be really careful, Brent. I don’t like being here after dark, either. We were planning to leave before the beer garden opened up and it got seedier, but here we are.”

“It’s—not just that. It’s not just the normal level of seedy, after-dark-at-the-fair concerns , ” Brent said un-eloquently. He sighed and closed his eyes, pinching the bridge of his nose for a moment before speaking again. “Listen, it’s the mission. You know this is totally confidential, but—you could be in even greater danger than just ‘being careful after dark’ will take care of.

“Carter brought us word that… well, there may be traffickers running an operation in the background of the fair chaos. Chaos makes a great cover. Our intel is patchy, but it’s possible there’s some kind of logistical hub going on here somewhere.

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