Chapter 106: Chapter 106

Aldara stumbled but righted herself and kept moving, ever mindful of the gun in Yves's hand. "In one of my trunks," she told him. "There's a secret compartment. How did you find me?" In movies, it always helped to keep the villain talking, right?

"All I had to do was hack the cruise line. They turned up the address you were using, along with the delivery instructions for your luggage. Then all I had to do was fly up here last night. The island was easy to hide on and when I saw the plane land, I stowed away in the restroom. Simple as could be." He pushed her through the galley.

"Which trunk?"

"The green one," she answered without thinking then cursed herself. Yves chuckled and nodded toward the cargo compartment.

"Good. Now open it up."

The first thing she saw was a pool of blood on the floor of the hold with Marc's inert stone body lying beside it.