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her. Justine didn’t mention Daniel again or the fact that Charity had been watching him with more than just diligence on her mind.
    “What have you found?” Charity asked.
    “The cops found a spent casing and we think a bullet is lodged in MacAfee’s body. We’re hoping to get a ballistics match on that one,” Anna said. “This is a rough composite sketch of the shooter. Does it match what you saw?”
    Charity leaned down and studied the face on the screen. She closed her eyes for a second and recalled the details of the woman who’d tried to kill Daniel.
    The face of the Asian woman was etched in Charity’s mind and the next time she saw her, Charity wouldn’t hesitate to take her out of the game. Self-anger wasn’t productive but she was ticked off that she’d let this assassin slip through her fingers.
    The computer program that Anna was using was state-of-the-art and had millions of facial features to choose from. “The eyes were a little further apart. And her bangs were swept completely off her forehead.”
    Anna made a few adjustments with her mouse and then leaned back. Charity checked it again, comparing the image in her mind with the one on the screen. “That’s it. Daniel might be able to add more details.”
    “Daniel?” Anna asked.
    “Our client. What did you find out about the driver and pilot that he’s using?”
    “The driver is with the cops now, talking to them about what he saw. The company he uses checks out and the personnel assigned to him have been working for them for over five years,” Justine said. “I’m nearly as certain as I can be that they are legit and not a threat.”
    Justine never trusted anything or anyone all the way. Which was one of the things that made her such an asset to the team. Anna was the most trusting of the three of them. She tended to believe in people until she had proof that they weren’t trustworthy. Charity, on the other hand, fell somewhere in the middle.
    Was that why she was struggling with Daniel? He was one of those gray areas that she wanted to trust but her gut was screaming at her that he was hiding something.
    Of course he was, she thought—he’s being blackmailed.
    “Charity?”
    “Huh?”
    “Do you want me to take over guard duty at the airport?”
    She shook her head. “No. It’s my job, I’ll finish it. I would like you and Anna to get there before us, check the plane and make sure that everything is as it should be.”
    “I agree,” Justine said. “Whoever is after Mr. Williams is serious about taking him out. Two strikes in two days.”
    “If they are so serious, why isn’t he dead?” Charity asked out loud.
    “I don’t know,” Anna said. “Maybe they just want him scared.”
    “Could be, or maybe his blackmailer is toying with him?” Justine suggested.
    “I’m betting on the latter,” Charity said. “Daniel plans to set himself up as bait.”
    “We’re off the case after he gets on that plane,” Justine said.
    “I want to talk to Sam again, see if he can get us back on the case. Anna, did you find anything in your databases that Daniel won’t have access to?”
    “What are you thinking?” Justine asked.
    “I want to prove to him that he needs us.”
    “We don’t prove ourselves to anyone, Charity, and you know that. If he wants to play his game, then let him.”
    She couldn’t let it go. She knew that Justine was right, but a part of her…just felt like she needed to stay with Daniel or he would die. And she didn’t want to see him killed because of his own stubbornness.
    “I’m going to call Sam.”
    “So be it. I’m going to get Mr. Williams to look at Anna’s sketch and see if we can’t get some more information out of him.”
    “Sam might say no,” Charity said, realizing that Justine was already acting like they were going to get the go-ahead from Sam to stay on the case.
    “Yeah, right. He never says no if we are determined to stay on a case,” Anna said.
    Charity left her friends