Chapter Fourteen
"Robert?"
"Mick! I need to talk to you. It's important."
"It's late and I'm just home to grab some clothes then go out to the airport. A friend of ours needs help."
Minutes before a call had come in from Logan. Alison was missing in France and Josef needed his help. Kostan Industries had the corporate jet waiting at the Bob Hope Burbank airport for him. Oh, and he was sending over Simone for Beth. She was about to be arrested for having given false testimony at the Tejada trial.
Now this.
"But, Mick, I know who you are and but not what you are! Still, I need your help again. Jacob ... he read my mother's diary." He saw Mick's look of questioning.
"You haven't had a chance to talk to Beth yet, have you? Well, anyway, Jacob has gone missing. I was hoping he was here with you?"
"Better come in, Robert."
Beth met them at the door. Her eyes reached out to Mick and he could tell she'd been crying; then she saw Robert. Empathy for both of them shimmered in her luminous eyes.
The security buzzer sounded. Beth headed over but noted Mick's smile of apology ... what for?
"It's the concierge. He's found Jacob hiding downstairs. And Simone has just shown up?"
Mick made a quick decision. "Robert, go get my grandson and take him home. I promise I will call you both and we'll ... talk." He put his arm around Robert's shoulder and smiled. "I've got a lot to tell you but just not now."
Beth told the concierge to hold the boy until his father came down, and to send Simone up.
"Beth, Simone's here as your legal counsel. Do as she says, bail out if arrested and go to Logan's. He's been checking all the lab evidence in the Tejada case for Josef. Tejada's daughter has stirred things up and based on new evidence, might be able to get those guys off. The cops are arresting you for false testimony. That's all I know.
I've got to go to France. Alison called last week about doing further research on those two vials of blood - both Morgan's and mine when were both human. Now she's gone missing and Josef needs my help."
He reached over and kissed her, long and deep.
And then he was gone. Beth wished once again she could do that vampire jumpy thing herself ... and disappear.