“We won’t know that until we ask him.”
In ten minutes, they were in the captain’s office, but as soon as Sienna made her request, Raoul shook his head.
“But it’s a credible tip, Captain, that David Buckner’s in Lake Tahoe,” Sienna said.
“I don’t doubt that. That’s not the issue. We don’t have jurisdiction in Tahoe. Call the police force there and let them pick him up.”
“I’m going, Captain, with or without Sienna.”
“It’ll be without,” the captain said firmly.
* * *
“I’m coming with you.”
“Captain change his mind?” A.J. jeered as he jerked open the car door and got into the driver’s seat. Sienna slid into the seat next to him. He pulled his cell phone from his coat pocket and dialed a number. It didn’t take him long to get the plane he needed from one of his teammates.
“Sienna—”
“I know what you’re going to say. This could cost me my job.” She turned to him. “But what will it cost you? I have evidence David took those weapons. He’s been working for Taylor for a year.”
“How do you know this?”
“We recovered the Excel file from his computer. It has details of everything. The cargo, the drop dates, the money. Everything.”
A.J. closed his eyes, still holding out hope that his brother was innocent of the charges against him. How could Dave have changed so much, and how could it have happened right under A.J.’s nose? It seemed that he didn’t know his brother at all. It made him question the time he spent away from home. Question his dedication to a Navy that somehow robbed him of his brother.
“Get out.”
“No, A.J. I’m coming with you. You need me. I can get information you can’t.”
“Sienna—”
“Just drive.”
CHAPTER11
Small planes werenother thing. As the Cessna dipped and bumped, Sienna tightened her hands around the seat rests.
“Afraid of flying?”
“No, not on bigger airplanes. This one, on the other hand, makes me extremely nervous.”
“Don’t worry. It won’t take us long to get there.”
Sienna watched the land grow smaller as they lifted into the stark blue sky. Looking at the ground wasn’t helping and looking at the instruments in front of her only made her edgy. She hated being thousands of feet in the air in a vehicle that she could neither understand nor control.
“Is Sandoval going to have your butt for this?”
“Hopefully, he’ll just chew on it for a while.”
“Why are you doing this?”
“I don’t know…could it be that I care what happens to your brother?”
He gave her a disbelieving look.
“All right. I put myself in your place, and I couldn’t turn my back on you, okay!” God, was she going soft in the head as well as the heart over this man? “Besides, I couldn’t let you go alone. We’re in this together,” she groused.