Fateless (Stateless Book 3) by Meli Raine

Author:Meli Raine [Raine, Meli]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-25T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Kina

A phone buzzes. Drew looks at his screen.

“New info. Thomas is even better. He’s drinking on his own, and they gave him some stuffed animal that he won’t let go of,” Drew tells me, the shift in topic jarring.

“Wonderful,” I say quietly, my softness a cover for overwhelm.

“Kina?” Lindsay asks, still holding her tiny toddler. Instinct makes me hold out my arms, the offer wordless but understood immediately. Never in my life have I taken a baby from his or her mother's arms. Every baby I've ever held has been under my care and mine alone.

This one I can hand back.

This one I'm not responsible for.

A rush of warmth fills me as little Emma snuggles against my shoulder, her cheek slack, arm hanging at her side as I slip her upright. She’s drifting off, deep in trusting land, the only place a child should be when in their mother’s arms.

Lindsay got her there. I just need to keep her trusting and safe.

Lindsay walks to a small sheaf of papers on the table and pulls three out. They're hand-drawn floorplans.

“I'll be with you,” she says. “I know my way around, and it will distract attention from you. You'll act like you're Glen, and it sounds like the techies are going to hack the biometric security systems so you can breeze through.”

“Won't be hard,” Callum says confidently.

“Famous last words,” Silas mutters.

“The side entrance is here.” Lindsay points to the drawing. “Security had to change once Daddy became president.” She continues speaking, but the word Daddy is jarring to me. I never had a dad. No man appears in my dreams. A mother, yes.

A father?

What is a father, much less a daddy?

Romeo flashes through my mind. I shudder. Yet he's the closest male figure I have.

I shudder again.

“The main office is here,” she continues, finger on the paper. “That's the small conference room for meetings. And Glen's office is here. Marshall's next door. But that's not where Glen spends most of her time.”

Drew takes one of the other copies and points. “His bedroom–it’s a suite. It's big. And Glen sleeps in Lindsay's old bedroom.”

“Sleeps,” Lindsay says, using finger quotes, her otherwise calm face filled with disgust.

“Bottom line: I'm going to ask Harry for a private meeting. I'll make up something. The goal is to get the Secret Service agents out of the room. They don't stay in the bedroom when Glen and Harry are sleeping together. What we want is for them to be gone while you go in, pretend to be Glen, and gain access to the computer files. Is Glen the type to keep paper notes?”

A strange cloud of shame covers me for a few seconds. “I don't know.” I'm embarrassed to know so little about my own sister's habits.

“It's fine. Do your best. But we only have one chance. Your cover story is that you came to California early to help Harry deal with the fallout of so many domestic situations.”

I nod, absorbing the plan, finding where it lives inside me so I can see all the parts as a coherent whole.

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