Chapter 3 - Adrian Was Given the Wrong Medication
Claire returned to the medical kit.
Something about Adrian’s symptoms bothered her.
The sudden throat tightness.
Dizziness.
Rapid pulse.
He told her he had taken medication shortly before takeoff.
“What medication?”
Adrian pointed toward his briefcase.
Claire opened it.
Inside was a prescription bottle.
Adrian said he took one tablet every morning for a heart rhythm
condition.
Claire checked the label.
Then the pills.
They did not match.
“Sir, these aren’t the medication on the label.”
Marcus’s face changed.
Adrian stared.
“What are they?”
“I don’t know.”
Claire had emergency medical training, not a laboratory.
She refused to guess.
But she knew enough to understand one thing.
The bottle had been altered.
Adrian looked at Marcus.
“You handle my travel bag.”
Marcus shook his head.
“So does the aviation staff.”
“Who had access today?”
Marcus did not answer quickly enough.
Adrian’s voice dropped.
“Marcus.”
“Your brother.”
Silence.
Claire looked at Adrian.
“You have a brother?”
“Julian.”
The name meant nothing to her.
Marcus continued.
Julian Cross had boarded the jet briefly before departure.
He claimed he left a contract in Adrian’s cabin.
Adrian looked furious.
“Why wasn’t I told?”
“You were on a call.”
Claire asked the obvious question.
“What does your brother have to do with my mother?”
Adrian looked at her.
“Everything.”
He took a slow breath.
“Ten years ago, your mother worked for Julian.”
Claire stared.
Her mother, Evelyn Morgan, had told her she worked as an accountant.
Nothing more.
Adrian continued.
“She discovered money missing from one of our companies.”
Claire’s hand tightened around the bracelet.
“And then she disappeared.”
Adrian nodded.
Three weeks ago, he said, Evelyn contacted him.
Not Julian.
Not police.
Adrian.
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She had one request.
Find Claire before Julian does.
