Chapter 28

JORDAN WEISMAN WAS ONE OF THE ACE COMPUTER programmers at bestmarket. Com before the company sold. Chick pulled a guilt trip on Jordy and he had finally agreed to hack into all the major airlines' computers to find out what flight Paige Ellis would be on from Charlotte. Jordan didn't like pulling hacks, but Chick b. S.'d him saying he was doing a new start-up and there might be a job in it for him. Jordan came through in less than thirty minutes.

After that, Chick spent the next six hours going for the perfect ensemble. Nothing seemed exactly right, so he ended up driving to Bloomingdale's and buying a cinnamon shirt and maroon tie. He already had a charcoal suit, so what it came down to was he had pretty much ended up stealing Apollo Demetrius's entire look, right down to the Aqua Velva.

Chick then spent almost forty minutes trying to select the right watch. He was a watch collector, an aficionado of world-class timepieces. Over the years, he'd bought every expensive or trendsetting chronometer available. He had Breitlings and Piagets, Rolexes and Cartiers. Over fifty watches were displayed in velvet-lined cases with glass tops in his walk-in closet. Each polished mahogany box contained six timepieces. He remembered reading somewhere once that sociopaths often had a fascination with clocks…

He wondered, Are my fifty watches trying to tell me something?

Finally, he selected the Breitling Navitimer, the same model John Travolta wore in their ads. Sporty, expensive, but not ostentatious. He snapped it on and set it.

His mind was swirling with anticipation and resolve. Only one lingering fear… if he got lucky… if he pulled this off… if he could talk Paige into it…

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