In Plain Sight by Fern Michaels

Author:Fern Michaels [Michaels, Fern]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2015-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Maggie struggled with the text she was attempting to send to Lincoln Moss. She was on her fourth try after deleting the first three. She looked over at Ted. “I can’t seem to get it just right for some reason. For starters, he’s going to go nuclear that I even have his oh-so-very-private-number-that-no-one-else-in-the-world-has. Except . . . drumroll please, Amalie and the President of the United States. And he doesn’t even know that Amalie has the number. Rosalee got it one day when he left his phone behind. I guess because she’s young, she knows how all that stuff works. Both women said the number is seared in their brain because they thought maybe someday they might need it. Guess this is the someday in question.”

“Short, curt, and to the point, that’s the best way,” Ted said. “Say what you have to say and move on.”

“When he asks where you got his private number, tell him the same thing you did when you called his other semiprivate number, that a reporter never divulges his or her sources. He has to respect that. He’s been around Washington long enough to know how that works, and after all we already had the number from Abner,” Dennis said.

“I say we go to his house and camp out in his driveway,” Espinosa said. “I’m real good at candid shots. I’ll catch the bastard in the act when he starts to shake his fist at you.”

“We have to be professional about this. Simply sending a text to do a short interview for the Man of the Year contest isn’t going to cut it. He’ll just blow it off and make noise about my having the number. I want to ask him why Amalie is going to the First Lady’s gala with the Director of the FBI instead of him. But I’m not sure I want to put that in a text. I’m not even sure it’s a good idea to tip our hand. Like Espinosa says, we want to capture his face on film when I throw that at him, if, and it is a big if, I follow through.” Maggie flapped her arms in the air like a bird as she tried to figure out what she should do.

“We don’t even know if Sparrow will agree to any of this. You could be putting the cart before the horse,” Ted snorted.

“We do now,” Maggie said, looking down at an incoming text from Annie confirming the director’s date for the gala. “Annie can charm the bees out of the trees, as we all know. She really has a special rapport with Sparrow. I think we all knew he would agree. I also think Annie is going to try playing matchmaker. Sparrow is single. Amalie will be single soon.”

Maggie flapped her arms some more. “Maybe I should just go with my original thought, which was to casually mention that Amalie is on the guest list and has responded that she will attend. My gut is telling me to throw him the bone and see if he bites down on it.

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