Jae's Assignment by Bernice Layton

Author:Bernice Layton
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Interracial romance;FBI Witness Protection;Psychiatry;Military;African-American
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2016-05-31T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“What the?” Darius Hall stuttered in disbelief. “Son of a bitch. Somebody stole my goddamned brand new car!”

Slamming the telephone headset down onto the base, Darius dared anyone to say anything at all to him, least of all Randy Cross, who was approaching his desk with a file dangling from his hand.

Randy stopped in front of Darius’s desk. “That’s one sweet-looking ride, Darius. So when are you going to start driving that baby?” Randy smiled.

“You need something, Randy?” Darius murmured.

“Oh, right. You asked me to run a check on some calls Jae logged onto her phone for a case,” he said, tapping the file in his hand. “Nothing’s there and my guess would be that she hasn’t used it. I need your okay to check her personal cell phone or home phone. It wouldn’t be the first time Jae logged agency business on her personal phone, you know.” Randy’s eyes circled the room. “What’s going on?”

“Nothing much,” Darius said.

“Jae out in the field?” Randy asked, watching Darius grip the base of the telephone as he let out another expletive. “Jeez.”

Iverson got up from his desk and held out his hand to Randy for the file.

“Look, guys, my plate is empty as you know, so if I can help out on something just say the word, especially if Jae’s taking another vacation.”

“Jae’s doing some legwork on an assignment with the DEA,” Darius said gruffly, then added, “Thanks for the info, Randy.”

Randy left with a head nod.

Darius recalled that earlier, after several attempts to find Jae had left them stumped, he’d ordered everyone back to meet him at her apartment.

Pulling Mike and Amil up from their posts down on the ground, Darius made one thing clear. They were not to talk about the issue of Jae or Grant.

When they’d left her apartment and gone to the garage, no one was surprised to see her Mustang gone, but they were shocked when they discovered Darius’s car was gone as well.

The howling cry that bellowed up from Darius filled the cement layers of the garage and had Iverson, Amil, McGuire, and Mike running back to Jae’s apartment.

They spent two hours in her apartment discussing what could be happening and each one came up with the same conclusion. If Grainger was Grant’s contact, maybe both Jae and Grant had gone to Grainger’s to investigate.

They also recalled that she’d been shot during a solo assignment. Now, she was out there again without backup so they were genuinely concerned for her safety.

Both McGuire and Amil definitely suspected a mole, someone who was particularly interested in Grainger and Grant. They agreed from that point on not to discuss anything in the office if there was a mole in their camp.

Darius now wished he hadn’t asked Randy to pull Jae’s smart phone records for the previous month. When he asked for that information, he’d only wanted to see if she’d been in contact with Grant.

Darius had Mike call the regional car theft force again. Darius had already reported the car stolen and couldn’t understand why the GPS hadn’t located it yet.

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