Saigon Red by Gregory C. Randall

Author:Gregory C. Randall [Randall, Gregory C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-04T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 25

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

The small screen secured to the back of the airline seat showed that they were over the Bay of Bengal. All Alex saw out the window was water to the horizon. The Lucchese children were asleep in the row ahead of her. The parents were forward in first class, like they were for the first leg of the journey. Karns was in the back, in economy. She had switched seats with Maria—who wanted the aisle—but she still couldn’t sleep.

Between Javier’s late-night espresso session, the mysterious trip from the Four Seasons by Signor Lucchese and Karns, no response from Chris, and now this man at Ski Dubai, her head was in turmoil. And this man, based on Gianna’s scared account, fit the description of one of the men that attended that meeting. After the late-night adventure, her detective brain had clicked on and run scenarios that surprised even her. Clandestine meetings, foreign agents, or customers out for a drink? The list was endless, and some of the things on the list were not nice. They twisted into strange events that she couldn’t shake. She felt like she was outside watching a strange movie.

After they had returned to the hotel from Ski Dubai, she’d told Nevio and Ilaria about the man. They were both shocked and wanted to ask Gianna about what happened.

“They’re both all right,” Alex had said. “I suggest we not make more of it than what it is. No reason to get them upset. Signor Lucchese, do you have any idea what the man meant about your promise?” She included the part about the man and what he looked like, and that she’d seen him with Nevio.

Ilaria turned to Nevio. “What is she talking about?”

“I had a late meeting last night. You were asleep. Some customers. It was nothing.”

“You should have wakened me. You should have told me.”

Nevio paused, thinking. “There’re some contracts to put together, but I’ll do that in Saigon. I don’t know why the man followed us. I’ll tell them that it was unacceptable.”

“It was more than that,” Ilaria said. “They crossed the line. I will not have my children approached like this, never. Do you hear me, Nevio?”

“I said I will take care of it.” He turned away. “I need to finish packing.”

Ilaria turned back to Alex. “Thank you for being there. This was unprofessional of these people. I will make sure Nevio tells them.”

“The kids will be just fine,” Alex said. “Don’t worry. I’ll keep an eye open.”

She did not tell Karns about the strange man at Ski Dubai. If Karns were a part of this—if he was the kind of TSD employee Chris had warned her about—she would find out soon enough. When she landed in Saigon, thirty-five hundred miles from this, she would call Campbell and find out what he knew. His lack of response to her text message was baffling. Did he just want her to mind her own business or something? No, it couldn’t be; he’d asked her to keep a lookout for weird shit like this, after all.

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