Page 30 of Enigma (Pros and Cons Mysteries #6)

O live checked Elena’s pulse.

It was still strong. She was just unconscious.

Olive dragged the woman into the largest stall and propped her up on the toilet. Then she retrieved the gun and tucked it into her waistband.

She quickly searched Elena’s pockets and found a cell phone and a hotel key card. She pocketed both, then closed the stall. Using her fingernail in the small slit in the metal, she locked the door from the outside.

That should buy her some time before Elena woke up or anyone else discovered her condition.

Olive quickly turned toward the mirror. Her hands shook as she checked her appearance. Her shirt was wrinkled and her hair messed up. But it was nothing that would draw immediate attention.

She smoothed her hair and straightened her clothes, trying to look like a normal traveler instead of someone who’d just choked a woman unconscious in the bathroom.

Elena would wake up in fifteen or twenty minutes, but by then their flight would be boarding.

Olive walked out of the bathroom as calmly as possible, her heart hammering against her ribs. The corridor was still quiet, no sign that anyone had heard the struggle.

She made her way back toward the gate, scanning every face for signs of Elena’s backup.

Because there was always backup.