Chapter 12
“What are we doing here again?”
Sofia was amazed that Richie didn’t have every detail about why they were flying back to the States.
Fred Smith opened his mouth and Sofia glared at him until he shut it. He’d taken the men away and told them something that had changed every one of them. The unflappable Kyle had turned grim. Richie—who was always a little clingy—was glued to Melissa’s side. Chad’s fierce silence made him appear truly dangerous despite his Iowa farm boy looks.
And Duane hadn’t met her eyes once since they’d been awoken at dawn and shoved onto this plane. The unmarked Gulfstream business jet was covering the ground from Panama to Washington State in a little over six hours and they were getting close.
“ECHELON,” Sofia explained, “was partly based here in centra
