I was searched by one of your colleagues. All the random medical supplies you shoved into my pants pockets as well as my own Horn, which you know is distinctive since it’s sparkly purple. I arrived at your company’s offices with pockets full of many, many things. Are you sure you only returned with one device?” His girlfriend Kellie, his sister Kandi, his great-uncle Amos and Amos’s wife… I think there were some siblings there too? I guess he could have given it to one of them to hang on to for him.” “He… well, I know he had a lot of family there waiting for him at the airport. He looked off to the side like he was thinking.

“Do you have any idea what he did with it between showing it to you and arriving at our offices?” “But when we questioned him back at headquarters, he didn’t have it anymore.”

“Buck showed you his Horn on the plane,” I began.Ĭarter’s forehead crinkled with confusion. Champ had made it clear he expected me to come through for him on this part of the job, and apparently the job was all I fucking had anymore. Reducing our relationship to debriefing about the case was my worst nightmare, but I had to do it. Rogers, Sr., nodded and returned to the party, leaving us alone again. I’ll be fine, and this won’t take but a minute.”ĭr. Rogers a few questions about the case, and then I’ll be on my way.”Ĭarter’s grandfather looked between us before asking Carter if he wanted company for the interview. Apparently, I’d seen feelings where there hadn’t been any. I stared at him, trying desperately not to feel like I was bleeding out straight from my chest. “No, sir,” Carter said, calming down immediately and resuming the emotionless expression he’d shown me when I’d first walked in. Rogers, Sr., shoot me a condescending glare was the icing on the cake. I felt like dirt enough as it was, but having Dr. “Is this gentleman bothering you, Carter?”Ĭarter’s grandfather eyed me with suspicion, so different from the trust he’d displayed the night of the gala.

His voice had risen in strength and volume until his grandfather came to ask if he was okay.

Hijacked by Lucy Lennox