First Target by Robin Mahle

Author:Robin Mahle [Mahle, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HARP House Publishing
Published: 2017-11-21T05:00:00+00:00

Aaron rubbed his eyes and rolled back in his desk chair. The information he’d uncovered and its consequences were still sinking in. Inside his apartment, timidity climbed up his spine. He eyed his front door— it was locked. He stood from his chair and walked to the middle of the room, standing still, eyes cast in every direction. Soon he began checking all the windows of his third-floor unit. All were secured.

He reached for his phone, hand hovering over the call button, and hesitated. Since working inside the Agency, Aaron learned how easy it was to listen to anyone, anywhere. And with the evidence he’d just come across, it wasn’t worth the risk.

The car keys sat on the small breakfast bar. Aaron snatched them up along with his coat and laptop, and was out the door. The question became, who would he turn to first? Axell, out of a sense of duty, or Lacy, out of a sense of loyalty. Both would need to know and his heart told him to turn to the woman. It would of course be Lacy. No one mattered to him as much as she did.

Within minutes, he found himself standing at her front door, hunched over in the freezing rain that was beginning to turn to hail in the building storm.

Lacy opened the door before he had a chance to knock. “I saw you pull up. What are you doing here? Are you okay?” Her concern for him appeared in her worried eyes. “Come in before you freeze to death out there.”

“Thanks. I had to talk to you and I just wasn’t sure if I could call.” He shed his drenched coat, hanging it on the rack, and walked into the kitchen. “I need to show you something.”

Lacy followed him, glancing up at the staircase, hoping the kids wouldn’t come down.

“Are the kids asleep?” he asked.

“Yes. I was just making sure no lights were on, that I hadn’t awakened them.” She walked toward the coffee maker and started a pot. “Let me get you something hot to drink.”

Aaron set up his laptop. “Thanks. That’s some storm out there tonight.”

“It is. This must be important for you to come out in this weather. It couldn’t wait until tomorrow?”

“No. I don’t think so.”

She returned with two mugs in her hands, placing one in front of him. “Here.”

He sipped on the warm drink. “Sit down. This is going to take some time.”

Lacy appeared even more concerned. “What did you find, Aaron? What’s happening? Have you told Trevor?”

“I came straight here. I thought you should know first. Then we can figure out what to do.” He directed an anxious eye to her. “It’s always been you and me, right, Lace?”

“Of course, it has. Aaron, you’re starting to scare me.”

He turned the laptop toward her. “Axell forwarded me a contact at the Treasury Department’s FinCen and I emailed him earlier today, after you all came back from speaking with the directors.”

“FinCen is the Financial Crimes Network, right?”

“Right. They have an international Financial Intelligence Unit.

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