Page 25 of Reckoning (FBI Thriller 26)

“It’s good timing, both the performance and Vincenzo. Did you see Ramsey’s face when Emma talked about him?” Savich couldn’t help it, he laughed.

“I wonder what you’d do if you had a teenage daughter?”

“Don’t ask. It’s too terrifying. The thought of Sean as a teenager is enough to make me stutter.”

Sherlock settled in, laid her palm over his heart. “Virginia Trolley assigned a woman officer to follow Emma whenever she left the house without Molly and Ramsey with her up until they left San Francisco this morning.”

He kissed her ear, breathed in the light rose scent of her hair. “They’ve had no luck finding the man in the brown coat again. Ramsey said if Virginia hasn’t found him by the time they’re scheduled to go back to San Francisco, they might take her to Molly’s father in Chicago.”

Sherlock sighed. “Well, Mason Lord would keep her safe, for sure. Molly thinks it’s a good idea. She told me her father’s changed quite a bit over the years toward her and the family. He gives the kids great Christmas and birthday presents. But of course she’ll never forget Emma wouldn’t have been abducted six years ago if she wasn’t Mason Lord’s granddaughter. Odd, but Molly really doesn’t mind he’s a criminal kingpin. It’s amazing, he’s flourishing. As for Ramsey, he only shakes his head.”

She raised herself up on her elbow, looked down at Savich in the dim light of the half-moon shining in through the bedroom window. “I think it might be smart for me to take some time off, stay close to Emma while the Hunts are here, be an extra set of eyes for them. At least they’ll be more at ease. You know as well as I do there’s no guarantee the man didn’t follow them here to D.C.”

He liked it. “You’ll be our ace in the hole.”