Savanna put her hand on his arm. “I’m sure you’ll get a chance.”
He turned to her, uncertainty shrouding him, but warmth at her gentle concern and care easing away his tension.
“Well.” Jackson clapped his hands together once. “I’ve got some burgers to grill.”
“I’ll help you.” Camille went with him to the table where all the food had been placed.
“Scared them away,” Korbin said with a wry grin.
“They’re just giving you some space. You’re a big man, and not one who looks like he makes confessions like that.”
“Try never.”
Savanna suspected his mood had everything to do with his stepdaughter. He longed to maintain a relationship with her and she may not let him. There was nothing tying them together anymore, and his criminal past might prevent her from letting him try.
With her parents busy with dinner, Savanna was left with Korbin beginning to regard her much differently. His trouble faded to the background for a moment as seeing each other again came into the forefront of all else. His eyes changed, awareness of her heating them up. Feeling an answering reaction, Savanna tensed.
“Agent Kidd called about Tony,” he said, breaking the moment. “He checked out, but he runs a janitorial contracting company that only recently began showing significant profits.” He pulled out a flash drive and showed it to her.
“What did you find?” Taking the flash drive, she went to a desk on the far side of the room and awakened the computer.
“I copied the list of all the contactors he employs,” Korbin said, following her. “I figured we could go talk to the one in Colorado.”
She looked up and back at him when he said “we.”
“If you want to go with me.”
Irrationally she clamored to gush out a yes, thrilled that he wanted to be with her. But wanting to be with her now and wanting to be with her indefinitely were two different things, and she could not forget his baggage, which might be too heavy to take on a new relationship. There was also the danger. Would she really put herself in danger to be with him?
He was an innocent man. Could she just as easily abandon him?
She faced the computer, opening the list. There were about twenty contractors. She read the names of companies and one of them triggered something significant.
“Some of the companies are big,” Korbin said.
“That’s exactly what I was thinking. Hart is a big bank.”
“There are a few banks.”
“A water treatment facility.” Savanna pointed.
“In LA.”
Savanna checked the others. One of the companies in Colorado provided emergency communication systems services. She began to feel a chill crawl down her back from the crown of her head.
“Does this look like what I think it looks like?”
“These could all be terrorist targets.”
She looked up at him, this time with no warmth between them. “Why keep records of their employment?”