Raiden (The Kent Brothers #2) - A.M. Hargrove Page 0,78
I noticed how she and Scottie shared a look. Scottie had told me that Isla, Drex, and Gemini knew about her situation. I threw my arm around Scottie’s shoulders and pulled her against me.
“Then what if Sinead is telling the truth?” I asked.
“We’ll find out soon enough, won’t we?” Acer said.
Huff was tapping away on a computer when he said, “Hey, check this out!”
Drex and I walked behind him to look over his shoulder. He was looking at a series of IP addresses that bounced all over the world.
“Okay, explain this,” Drex said, pointing to the screen.
“Right. This one here goes from DC to China, to Russia, to Belfast, and then to New York,” Huff answered.
I leaned closer, checking it out. “Shit, you’re right.” He zeroed in on it and we saw how the IP address kept being rerouted. “He has a great security guy on this.”
“It’s using several VPN routers.”
“True, but not just anyone would be wise enough to set that up.”
“And it was mingled in with hundreds of others. His phone was VOIP, so that’s why it was more difficult to trace. It wasn’t bouncing off cell towers,” Huff said. “When I couldn’t track anything off it, I went this route.”
“Going by this, the place in New York might be accurate,” Drex said.
“Let’s hope. She may have given us the right area but the wrong location,” Huff said. “Drex, tell the New York team that if he’s not there, to search nearby areas. In the meantime, I’ll try to zero in on the exact location this is pinging.”
“I’m on it.” Drex left the room, his phone to his ear.
Scottie moved closer to the seated group of people. “I have an idea.” She had their attention. “We need to question Sinead again and get her to describe the New York hideout.”
Acer was off the couch, followed by Isla. “Acer, wait. We need to have a plan before we go down there.”
“Why can’t we just ask?”
“She won’t give it up that easily. We need to goad it out of her.” Isla continued, “But I may have a better idea. Let’s see if we can get it out of Aisling.”
Gemini, Scottie, and I went up there to do the questioning. When we got there, she was sleeping.
“Aisling?” Scottie called out. She took the tape off her mouth.
“What? Are you here to try to scare me again?”
“No, we might be able to take you to your grandfather.”
“No, you can’t. You won’t find him.”
She was smart. Street smart.
Scottie went on. “If you help us, we can. We can take you there.”
“What about my mammy? I want her to come too.”
“We can do that too.” It was a blatant lie, but at this point, we had to try everything.
“I don’t know if I can find it. It’s out of the town.”
“Do you know the town’s name?” Gem asked.
“No, but they have a lake that Mam takes me swimming in.”
Lake. Upstate New York. Great. There are dozens there.
“Okay, is there anything else?”
“Mammy likes to go to the town and drink the wine there. And they have an ice cream shop that she takes me to.”
“Is your grandfather’s house big.”
“No. It’s just a house.”
Scottie looked at Gem. I wasn’t sure why, though.
“Is there anything else you can remember about it?” Gem asked.
“Mammy goes skiing. I go too. In ski school.”
That was something. I texted Huff what we had so far. Lake, skiing, wine.
“Mammy said the town was famous.”
“Okay, that might help. Thank you.”
Why was the kid being sweet? They claimed she was the worst brat ever, but this kid wasn’t showing signs of that at all.
“I’m hungry and thirsty.”
“I’ll be back with something for you,” Scottie said.
“Okay.”
We left and Huff told us it might be near Lake Placid, which wasn’t close to where the guys had gone.
“Can the flight divert there?” I asked.
“Drex is calling now.”
He came back into the room and told us the flight had changed destinations. Now we had to wait for their call.
Chapter Forty
Scottie
Being tied up for the morning tamed the little hellion. Raiden and I carried up food and water for her, and at the last minute I added a cookie to the tray.
“Feeling sorry for her?” he asked. His smirk sent a horde of butterflies to my belly. I shuddered.
“Stop looking at me that way. You know how it affects me.” The comment only earned me a raised eyebrow.
“I won’t apologize for lusting after you. And you didn’t answer the question.” He smacked my ass.