Chapter Thirty-Three
Cairo, Egypt
Anna and Simon sat opposite each other in the coffee shop of the Hilton Hotel overlooking the River Nile while they finished their breakfast. The previous night’s check-in had been relatively uneventful. Arriving around midnight, they had gone straight to Reception in the lobby and as suspected, had found that three rooms had been conveniently booked in their names. Simon had immediately suggested re-booking into a suite so they could be together but Philip was not keen on the idea.
“What if the kidnapper wants to get in touch with us?” he had argued. “We don’t want miss any communication because we’re in the wrong room or irritate him more than we have to!”
For a moment, Philip had awful visions of him taking out his anger on Heather.
Simon felt like
