Chapter 6

Aidan had long since given his seat next to Kendall up to Palmer Courtland and taken watch over the woman he had once been romantically involved with. Leaning against the wall he had spent the better part of the last hour watching JR Chandler come in and out between phone calls and plotting sessions with Tad and a newly arrive Adam. As his own cell phone vibrated against his hip, Aidan straightened and moved towards the couch, indicating to Palmer that he was going outside to answer the phone.

The older man nodded even as Kendall stared sightlessly down at her hands while she leaned against him.

Shaking his head Aidan stepped outside and put the phone to his ear as he hit send: "Anna, hi. . .You have something for me. . .yeah. . .I suppose I'm not surprised. . . right. . . I'll take whatever help I can get. . . No, we haven't heard. . . Not good. . . you did?. . .It'll take some finagling. . .OK. . .I'll call you," he finished as he headed over to where Tad, Adam, and JR stood talking animatedly. "Anna just called," he said interrupting them.

"She have anything useful to say?" Adam asked pointedly.

"Adam. . ." Tad growled.

"What? I just asked. . ."

"She said she's getting in touch with some old contacts, but so far there isn't much that she can give us that will give us the main man. What she does know is that this guy doesn't play around, and if there is any chance that Zach knows who he is, both he and Kendall are in danger." Aidan answered crisply.

"Great, so what do we do?" JR wondered. "They stay here and they're sitting ducks."

"That's one of the reasons that Anna doesn't have a lot of information on hand, she came up with a plan to. . ." Aidan started then thought better of talking about the plan out loud and pulled out a notebook. Quickly he wrote down the rest of what he was going to say and handed it to Tad to read.

"Some plan," Tad sighed as he passed the notebook on. "Only thing, what about the rest of the family?"

"Anna thinks that they'd be most likely to target Bianca, Miranda, and Lily. Since Maggie's friends with her daughter Robin she's there now and getting ball moving on them. We need to get Lily and Sam someplace safe on our own." Aidan answered.

"What about Ryan's petition?" JR asked. "If she leaves she could be blowing her chances."

"At least she'd live long enough to have the baby and fight him," Tad reasoned.

Adam rolled his eyes: "imbecile," he muttered at Tad. "I'll handle that end of things. There are a few people I can call to make sure Lavery doesn't have a leg to stand on."

"There's also getting her and Zach the paperwork," JR pointed out.

"That I can take care of. Helps having a friend who's an Ambassador," Tad answered. "Lets get back in there, I don't like leaving her with just Palmer as a guard."

"For once I agree with you," Adam said as he fell into step with him.

"Scary thought," Tad muttered as the stepped into the waiting room to raised voices.

"Too bad we didn't think of it sooner," JR groused.

"Wonder who tipped him off?" Aidan mused as they rounded the corner. "Well, that explains it. . ."