Page 18 of Without Warning
I head back from my lunch break to help with a senior otter who isn’t feeling well and learn he might be sicker than we thought.He’s one of the older otters in the romp.One of the mammal team members has worked with him since she came to the aquarium years ago, so she’s struggling with today.
Darrell
Icontact Titan to have him look into it.One of the guards I have on Daphne said they caught someone following her, but when they tried to get closer, the person took off.I send a quick message to Cronus, reminding him about my request for an operative to be with Daphne at all times.
“Sir, I’ve added the meeting with the board at the aquarium to your schedule.I also have legal shutting down as much information as possible about this weekend’s escapades.Is there anything else you want from me?”Jethro asks.
I look up from one of my screens showing the internal aquarium cameras.I can watch my girl while she’s at work, and she doesn’t know it.
“It wasn’t an escapade.It’s how it’s going to be.Daphne will be a permanent fixture in my life.”I correct him and turn back to the monitor.
“Darrell, I also have everything extra you wanted to set up.Instead of canceling the other appointments, I rearranged them.”
“Perfect.Did legal get back to you on the offer for the board?”
“Not yet, but they should have it done by the time you leave.”
“Okay.”
He walks out, and I focus back on my girl while I continue working.
My phone rings, and I answer it without checking the caller ID.
“Hello.”
“Well, well, well, you found her finally.”Titan’s voice comes across the line, and I lean into the screen as I notice my girl getting upset about something.
“I did.You still hiding Cronus’s girl from him?”
“Fuck yeah.She asked me to.I’m going to help her out because she was there for my wife.”
“I get it, but maybe it would be better if he saw her.It might help him get out of his funk.He’s drinking.”
“I know.I’ve talked to a couple of the guys about it.I can’t break her trust.It’s really fragile, and she needs help right now.”
I clue in on his words.“Is she in danger?Because if she is, he deserves to know.”
“Not yet.Both of them have been safe from Andrus, and he’d be stupid to show his face up here.There are too many ways to hide his body and get away with it.”
He’s not joking.After the torture Andrus put Titan’s wife through and whatever tie he has to Cronus’s girl, Maisy, Titan would have no problem making him disappear in the wilds of Alaska.
“Okay.What you got?I have a meeting soon.”
“She’s got someone following her.I haven’t been able to find anything else, only that there’s a car following her.The vehicle’s license plate is scrambled, and it’s such a common model that I can’t trace it.”
“There’s nothing you can do?How is he scrambling the plate?”
“He probably has a chip on it that obscures it.It’s highly illegal, so I’m thinking of having a cop find him so I can get the real plate and get a name on him.”
“Do whatever you have to in order to keep her safe.”
“What I know so far just from watching him is he knows where she works and where she lives, but I don’t think he knows her actual unit number, because deliveries have been coming in under just her name.I found that out by accident.I called the concierge, and he told me Daphne has gotten deliveries from you with her unit number on them and one with just her name.An order of flowers.I told him that all deliveries without her actual number are to be turned over to us.”
“Thank goodness.Okay, man, I need to get to this meeting, and legal is supposed to have a packet for me.”
“Got it.I’ll keep her under surveillance.”
“Thanks.”
