Chapter 71Agent Smith walked into the headquarters building. He was concerned about his partner. He and Lou had been partners for five years, he was the godfather to Lou’s two-year-old daughter, and their wives were good friends. He felt helpless knowing that his friend and partner was missing, possibly dead.
He checked in with the receptionist and dropped the two recovered cell phones off with the tech department before heading up to see his boss. He stepped into Carter’s outer office and was surprised to find that his assistant Anna wasn’t there. He didn’t think he’d ever been in this office when she wasn’t there. She was practically an office fixture, but without her to coordinate with, he knocked and entered Carter’s office. “Where’s Anna?”
Carter looked up from his computer, placed
