Chapter 14
THE VANGUARD
The man pressed a button and the images he’d taken when Micah and Joy walked past him on the street were sent to his superior.
He was expecting the call and picked up as soon as his phone buzzed.
“So, the last one is there,” the woman’s voice said, gravely as a porcelain ashtray.
“He is.”
“And he has a woman, just like the others.” The disdain in his superior’s voice spiked over the phone line.
“He does.”
There was a pause. She must have been looking through the photos.
The man couldn’t be sure, but he thought he heard his superior let out a stifled gasp.
“Ma’am?”
Her voice came back lower this time. “The woman. Who is she?”
“I haven’t loaded her image into the system yet. But they came out of McKinley Flowers.”
The man wasn’t sure but he thought he heard his superior say something like, “That son of a bitch.”
“And where are they now?” she snapped.
“They went to her condo.”
This time, the pause was even longer.
Then, she said, “Follow them. Tell me every move they make. Is that understood?”
“Yes, ma’am.”
The call ended and he looked down at his phone. He’d experienced his superior’s wrath before, but this …
He scratched his chin and went back to his crossword puzzle.