Night Deception by Tamsen Schultz

Author:Tamsen Schultz [Schultz, Tamsen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798648817388
Published: 2020-06-15T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Isiah followed Alexis and Jake into the FBI office exactly three days to the hour after they’d left. It was good to be back on Tildas Island. They hadn’t been gone that long, but it had been a hell of a three days. He understood why Shah needed to see them, but he was definitely looking forward to some downtime on his balcony once the debrief was over.

“Alexis, Jake, Isiah,” Shah greeted them as they entered the bullpen. Beni, Damian, and Dominic were all present as well, each looking grimmer than the next.

“I’m sorry you didn’t have a chance to head home before coming in, but I thought it might be better to get this meeting over and then you can have the rest of the evening off. Tomorrow, too, barring any unforeseen events,” she continued.

“Sounds like good news,” Jake said, throwing himself into a chair. But he popped back up again. “I need a drink. Is there any of Alexis’s juice left in the kitchen?”

Damian nodded and Jake bounded out of the room. That was the second time Jake had referred to Alexis’s juice, Isiah filed that random piece of information away as something to ask her later.

They waited in silence while Jake made a run to the kitchen. And even though Isiah wanted to get home, he was hard-pressed to give Jake any grief.

It had taken less than twenty-four hours for an advocacy group to come to the villa in Honduras and take charge of getting the kidnapped women back home—if that was safe—or to wherever they felt they needed to be. It was a complicated process and for the few that didn’t have a place to return, the foundation Alexis’s parents ran had offered to pay for housing and, if desired, education for the next year. All of the women were offered therapy as well.

It was the best outcome they could have hoped for, but it was still beyond shitty that it had happened and the fact that all Jake wanted was two minutes to get some juice seemed a minor thing. Isiah would have gone for a double whiskey, himself, if he weren’t sitting in the FBI offices.

Beside him, Alexis glanced around the bullpen then suggested they move to a conference room where they could all take a seat. She was cool; neither her voice nor her body betrayed any of the stress of the last day, but there was a tightness in her eyes that belied her composure. It was going to take a while for any of them to stop seeing those women in that cage.

A few minutes later, Jake returned with a tall glass and took a seat beside Dominic. “Whatever it is, it doesn’t look good, so just lay it on us,” he said, speaking to Shah.

A ghost of a smile appeared on Shah’s face, then it quickly disappeared. She handed Alexis and Jake each a file. “Sorry, Isiah, I don’t have one for you.”

He waved her off. He was surprised

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