A marriage deal with billionaire stone (Ivy and Silas)

Chapter 215

When Bailey got the message about Island Nova, she ignored it. Anger still

simmered inside her at the Stones.

Quinn had a surveillance team watching Night Bird until Mateo Castro was found,

but so far, nothing useful had been reported.

Bailey fiddled with her pen, annoyance boiling in her chest. She had canceled

dinner with Aaliyah’s parents for nothing. Even though they had rescheduled, it

still stung to have made the effort for no result.

“Hey, Jones.”

She looked up and saw Quinn at the door. He walked to her table and dropped a

large stack of files.

“I think we should go through all these again,” he said, gesturing to the pile.

Bailey rolled her eyes. “We’ve done that a million times.”

“And we’ve gotten nowhere,” Quinn replied. “We can’t trust the tip that led us to

Night Bird in the first place, and the surveillance teams haven’t shared any good

news for hours. So, we’re stuck with this.”

She sucked her teeth and pulled the stack closer.

“Unless you don’t want to return to Columbia early,” he added.

She shot him a look. Of course she didn’t want to go back yet, not because of

Mateo Castro, but because of Aaliyah and her mother.

Quinn understood the look and laughed. “The faster you finish, the more time you

spend with her.”

“As you say boss,” she teased.

He laughed again. “See you later, Jones.”

When he left, Bailey opened one of the files. Nothing looked different, and it made

her tired already.

She flipped the page. Her weariness deepened, and she tried to shake it off. As

she turned another page, b

mind drifted to Silas’s message.

Giving in, she picked up her phone. She searched the name on the internet but

found nothing.

“That’s weird,” she muttered, leaning forward.

Still, she was intrigued.

She dropped her phone and opened her laptop. Logging into her Bureau account,

she accessed the World Wide Finder.

If Island Nova existed but was hidden, the World Wide Finder would detect it. As

she typed, she hadn’t expected it to pop up—or worse, require a higher-level

password to view it.

only followed the trail to

a mixture of excitement and curiosity

her.

But she needed a password to

And why was the island

way to find

her phone and dialed

voice hoarse.

“Jones. How is it?”

Chief. I need your help,” she said, then told him what she had

said. “I’ll send you my

me and only

“Yes, Chief.”

for my message,” he

instantly, Bailey’s phone chimed. She used the

the Island Nova file.

in,

Nova was owned by

parents,” she muttered, her

Why would Silas’s

a compressed document revealing the

to

to her

was it! The connection between the

Demand extra security and don’t talk

Bureau. Not

“Yes.”

soon,”

her bag and took three different buses, switching

in a small

case

she called Chief Ramsey and

Jones,” he said, anger filling his voice.

took them so

hard. “They were covering for

I kept you among

okay, boss. Just

you have on the island. I’m

Francisco.”

tugged at

got to work. She

collaborated through secure lines.

later, they discovered Mateo Castro was growing drugs on

the Stones

satellite image of the island. It

by dense trees. She could bet there was danger

Chief Ramsey called again.

here. Send me your

a dozen agents. They turned the room

and strategized

suspicious as

The Chief rarely cursed. “He knows you’re

Moore was Quinn’s superior.

I’ve reported to higher

investigated. Corrupt rats.”

looks with an agent, her stomach knotting. She couldn’t

had worked with

by ship,” one

a nod. “They would spot us from

already informed

out the big toys.”

Gasps filled the room.

“Are you

“Hundred percent.”

toys meant

Sh