Page 57 of SEAL's Paradise
Chapter 25
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THE FOLLOWING WEEK, Riley was growing frustrated.They’d been watching Bengal and Brown, listening in on their conversations and tracking their movements, but they hadn’t diverted from their usual routines.And nothing in the messages she read over had given her additional clues as to when the next exchange was set to occur.
“Just be patient, kitten,” Sawyer soothed.“According to the timeline you gave us, things are going according to schedule.Something will turn up.”
“I don’t want to be patient,” she said.“I want to stop them.”
“And we will.”
She scanned over the messages between Bengal and Brown that she’d been analyzing on her laptop, Sawyer standing behind her.Her kitchen table had become a command center of sorts.For a moment, she missed working in a government office, with access to everything right at her fingertips.
She could do this though.There had to be a clue.An exchange of information.A detail they’d missed.They just needed to find it.
Riley clicked on another message, reading over it.There was something about a night out at the bar.Nothing new.A meeting both brothers would be attending.A doctor’s appointment.
She closed the message, scrolling down through the other emails and texts that they’d accessed.
“Wait, what’s that?”Sawyer asked, reaching for her mouse.
She swatted his hand away.
“Just let me quick open the message.Be a good girl for me,” he said, giving her a smug look.
Riley blushed, and he chuckled.While she loved when Sawyer took control in bed, the case itself was still a source of contention between them.Sawyer and his team were used to running the show.It was different for them to have to take an outsider into consideration.
Sawyer ducked down and kissed the top of her head, his hand landing over hers on the mouse.She sighed and let him open whatever he had spotted.“That’s my girl,” he teased, but his gaze narrowed as he read what was on the screen.
“That’s today,” Riley said in surprise.
Sawyer frowned.“It is.And while the shipment of Hawaiian exports back stateside wouldn’t normally be of interest to me, this is Bengal and Brown we’re talking about.Why’d they even mention it?”
“Do you think it has a hidden meaning?”she asked, her heart beginning to pound.
Sawyer looked at his watch.“I do.And they’re set to load the goods onto the cargo ship in three hours.If they mentioned it in their texts to one another, we need to be there.”
“Oh my God,” she breathed, anxiety churning through her.“We have to stop them.”
