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75 Hunting a rodent

Author: Zea Drew
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Date = 6 July

The day of the trap

Place = San Francisco (Schulz–Sonoma County Airport)

We got Matthew’s location.

POV - Aria

To anyone watching, we’re just a beautiful couple loitering in arrivals, waiting for Enrique’s very pregnant sister to land.

Even though she’s absolutely not on a plane. Or landing. Or even close to the states.

There’s just … us. Sitting in the mostly quiet arrivals lounge of a small regional airport, pretending we’re waiting for a flight — that will never come — while surveillance eyes and informants watch to see if the bait gets a bite.

We’re here with the kids. Deimos and Haley are at the other airport — the captain’s. Uncle John went to number three — Shoestring’s. All of us acting a part.

Enrique blinks at the departure board as if it is plotting against him personally.

“It’s been forty-seven minutes,” he mutters, his eyes on where River is leaning against the wall with folded arms, sizing Luke up with the same expression I imagine she uses on unsuspecting
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