GABRIEL

"We're here!" Pop's voice broke through the fog of my inner musings. "What are you thinking?" He was asking this because I hadn't moved.

"I'm trying to figure out if we're walking into a trap."

"It's not a trap; I met this Mancini guy; he's on the up and up."

"Mancini, thanks."

"Dammit, Gabe." I just smiled and grabbed my stuff before following him off the plane.

I pretended to forget something, but what I was really doing was ...