Goode Things Take Time

Part 24

I couldn't find him.

Two days later I was sitting on a little bench in Roseville lost in thoughts, when I heard his voice. I turned to see a disheveled Joe Solomon in a dirty white t-shirt and an unshaven beard.

"Zachary Goode!" Joe said sharply, in a tone I'd hardly heard him use before, and certainly never with me.

"Good of you to find me." I said sarcastically.

"I thought you trusted me when I said Cammie's safety was none of your concern." Joe said.

"I thought you were a good enough spy to know that Cammie couldn't just sit still in a mansion." I shook my head "Do you really want to lose another member of the Morgan family?"

And for a second, Joe Solomon lost his cool.

"It's not the Morgan family I'm worried about." Said Joe "Macey's missing"

My mouth dropped open in surprise. "Macey's missing?"

"Yes. Evidently she heard your little chat with Cammie and felt like she wasn't good enough to be in the Gallagher academy." He rolled his eyes. "The girl's good though. We haven't found her in 48 hours. We think she's in Switzerland. There was a girl matching her description found booking a plane ticket using her families private accounts."

I looked at him dubiously. "Do you really think she's in Switzerland?"

"Well, given that we haven't found her in nearly two days, we think she might have gone somewhere from there. Maybe her house in the Alps. We've widened the band to include half of northern Europe. Wherever she is, we'll find her."

I shake my head in disgust. "Joe. You are one of the best spies I know. You ARE the best spy I know. And you've seen Macey every single day for what, a year? Do you seriously think she'd be that stupid? The Gallagher academy doesn't admit fools." I said, remembering my conversation with Cammie. "and Cammie?"

"Cammie is the least of your worries. She'll be fine inside the mansion."

"She'll do nothing then? Just sit idly by as dominoes fall around her? No she won't. Want to know why? Because if they even have an inking of an idea that one of her sisterhood is in danger then it's their personal mission to make sure that girl is okay." Cammie might just be stubborn enough to find Macey McHenry, if the circle didn't find Cammie first.

"Do you really think a girl could outsmart some of the CIA's top operatives?"

"Is she a Gallagher girl?"

"Yes." he said.

"Then that's your answer to your question."

Suddenly there was a ring on the payphone twelve feet to our left. Joe picked it up. "Hello. Wise guy. Yes. Yes. No. She is?" he sighs "I'll be there." he hangs up the phone and turns to me.

"Cammie's gone."

I looked at him. I wasn't surprised at all.

"I told you."

"What do we do Zach?"

"We wait." I looked him in the eyes. "They'll find her, or they'll die doing it. But I'm suspecting the former."

"Zach. In two days, the polls open in D.C. You'll be there?"

I nod. "You couldn't keep me away."