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 prove

at the screen, a mixture of excitement

her.

Nova existed. But she needed a password to

would do that? And why was the island

one way to

her phone and dialed Chief Ramsey. He

voice hoarse.

“Jones. How is it?”

your help,” she said, then told

said. “I’ll send you my password. Anything

me

“Yes, Chief.”

he said,

Bailey’s phone chimed. She

the Island Nova file.

lines in, she

by

muttered,

would Silas’s parents pay to conceal

a compressed document

to

to her

The connection between the Stones

get there. Demand

anybody from the Bureau. Not even Quinn.

“Yes.”

you soon,” Bailey said,

bag and took three different buses,

a small

case she

in her room, she called

he said, anger filling his voice. “I always

so long

hit her hard. “They

“Sorry I kept

okay, boss. Just doing

you have on the island. I’m on my

Francisco.”

at

work. She

collaborated through secure lines.

discovered Mateo Castro

Stones

satellite image of the island. It was small,

She could bet there was danger

Chief Ramsey called again.

here. Send me your hotel

he arrived with a dozen

office and strategized

sounding suspicious as fuck,” Chief

furrowed. The Chief rarely

Moore was Quinn’s superior.

to higher authorities. The entire branch is

investigated. Corrupt rats.”

an agent,

worked

go in by ship,” one

Ramsey agreed with a nod. “They would spot us from

informed them we’re

out the big toys.”

Gasps filled the room.

swallowed. “Are you sure …

“Hundred percent.”

meant big

Sh