Easy Shot by Smith Dean Wesley

Author:Smith, Dean Wesley [Smith, Dean Wesley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: WMG Publishing
Published: 2016-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Sunday, April 9th

2:36 p.m.

BONNIE SAT ON the bed with Craig in a room on the hotel’s top floor and watched as the last of Danny’s scrapes were treated.

Clearly Maxwell and the other FBI agents had been using this room as a base. It was bigger than her and Craig’s room, yet considerably smaller than the Senator’s massive suite. From the looks of the table and kitchen area, a number of agents had been going and coming from here twenty-fours hours a day. Right now Maxwell and three agents were here, as well as Hagar and Danny. The agent working on Danny’s cuts and scrapes clearly had a good knowledge of first aid.

After the Senator was airlifted away, they had decided that to get Danny back into the hotel without arousing suspicion, she and Craig would walk him in. It would be logical that if he wasn’t under suspicion for any crime, that he would be with his playing companions.

As Danny was being treated, he told what had happened to him and his wife over the last week. To Bonnie the story he told had a ring of truth through it. But on top of that, she wanted to believe him. Craig was clearly not so sure.

It seemed that on Friday morning, while Danny was at his golf course for a few hours, Danny’s wife, Steph, was taken from their apartment in Sedona. Danny guessed that there had been three, but by the time he got home only one was waiting for him. Danny had seen the man who wasn’t masked a few times this weekend around the hotel, and the guy had come to Danny’s room last night.

Danny said he had told the man that he wouldn’t cooperate unless he could have proof his wife was alive every day. Danny looked up at Maxwell. “They threatened to kill her, but I held to my demand.”

Maxwell nodded. “Go on. What did they do then?”

“They let me talk to her for a few seconds Friday night late, and again last night,” he said, barely holding it together.

Craig glanced at Maxwell. Bonnie knew exactly what Craig was thinking. If there were phone calls, there could be traces on those calls. Maxwell nodded, clearly thinking along the same lines.

He turned to one of three agents standing nearby. “Get Danny’s room and home phone records and get those calls traced.”

“They weren’t on my room phone,” Danny said. “The guy always handed me a cell phone and told me to punch redial.”

“Damn,” Maxwell said.

“How about the face of the phone?” Bonnie asked. “Could you see the number?”

Danny shook his head. “The guy had it taped over.”

“Smart,” Hagar said.

Bonnie had to agree.

“It was so hard,” Danny said, “not calling the police.”

“You should have, you know,” Maxwell said.

“I do now,” Danny said softly. “But I was so afraid they were going to kill her.”

Bonnie had no doubt not calling the police was going to be one decision Danny would regret for a long time. But now wasn’t the time to dwell on that.

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