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“On Daley?”

“Both of them,” I ground out. “I told you yesterday, we’re working this case as if we don’t know them personally.”

“Boss, I still don’t think Serena would do this. Not after…”

“I know but opinions mean nothing, I want facts.” I stared at him, letting him know with my eyes that it wasn’t a subject that he had any say on.

Slamming my door, I started the car and drove out of the compound. I didn’t want to think that she had anything to do with kidnapping those girls but I had to look at it objectively.

My mind was whirling with the possible outcomes from this business meeting. I couldn’t discover if they were working together or alone; if they were working together, then I was certain they would discuss it.

Pulling up far enough away from the hotel to not look suspicious, but still close enough so I could get a signal, I pulled out my headphones and plugged them into the tablet.

The meeting was meant to be at nine and it was already a quarter to. Settling back, I waited and watched the camera at the front of the hotel on the tablet.

For fifteen minutes, all I saw were two people leaving, and one of those tiny dogs try to attack the doorman.

Dead on nine, Daley arrived in his Bentley. His driver opened his door and he stepped out, looking around him discreetly. That was one of the first signs, he wouldn’t be scanning the area if he wasn’t worried about something, or someone.

I watched him go into the hotel and walk down the corridor to one of the suites.

‘Gold Suite’. Figured. I shouldn’t have expected anything less.

When he sat down at the table, I pressed the icon so that it would fill the whole screen. He sat down and pulled his cell out, tapping away on the screen for several minutes until Serena came waltzing in, followed by a couple of men. Big, tall, beefy men, all dressed in black combat gear.

My brows raised at that. Why were they with her? They stood at the door and nodded to Daley. Were they there with h

im, or her? I couldn’t work it out.

“Good morning.” She smiled at Daley, taking a seat opposite him. Her movements slow and measured. She’d always been like that, always aware of her body and how to have the greatest effect on people. Mainly men, that was something that I realized after I had left her.

I sat and listened but all they talked about was the charity and the new building that they had drawn plans up for. By all accounts, it was a normal business meeting, and by the time Serena left the room, I didn’t know anything more than I already did when I had arrived.

The only thing that I was sure about, was that they weren’t working together. They would have mentioned something surely? Even if it was a small detail. That meant that it was either Daley or Serena.

The two men exited the room after Serena and I was about to swipe off the screen to see where they went when Daley’s phone rang.

“Yo.” I snorted at his greeting, he was an obnoxious piece of shit.

“Yeah, is the next shipment ready to be picked up?” He asked with a smirk on his face.

Whatever they said on the other end, he didn’t like it, because his face started to go red and his hands clenched into a fist at his side.

“Tomorrow night, I mean it. Don’t let this one get away,” he growled down the phone. “I want it taken straight to my safe place. No stops in between.”

He pulled the phone away from his face and tapped the screen before shoving it into his pants. He closed his eyes, composing himself, then did the button on his suit jacket up and opened his eyes.

You’d have never known he had just lost his cool if you saw him then. Pulling the door open, he walked out of the room as if nothing had happened.

Pressing the screen to take me back to the icons, I watched him walk back through the hotel, the henchmen followed him and he gave them a slight nod as he got into the waiting Bentley. Looked like they were there for him after all.

It seemed there was more to Daley that what we had originally thought.

While we waited for Ty to get back from his surveillance job, I decided to be productive.

I collected the files of information that Evan had gathered on Daley and Serena and spread them out on the floor in the office.

Evan had said that they had gone through them and couldn’t find anything, but it didn’t hurt to go over them again. Especially when I had a gut feeling about Serena.