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Nothing in this world would stop him from getting her back.
“I will pay you any price. Get her. Take them out. Bring my daughter home.”
Midas jumped into his vehicle. “Why aren’t you calling the police?” He ignored the part where Ryker had just asked him to kill her abductors. Ignored it, for now.
Most people think I’m a killer. Just like my old man. Was that why Ryker had hired him? The real reason?
“I…can’t call the police. I-I think…I think Alina will be dead if I do.”
“Why the hell would you think that?”
“Do you have eyes on my daughter?”
“The men who took her just tried to run me down with their car. We aren’t dealing with people who are going to play nicely here. We need the cops.” How many times did he have to say that shit?
“I know it’s them…I was so afraid…If you go to the cops, she’s dead. Please, don’t kill my daughter.”
What. The. Fuck?
“Any price,” Ryker said quickly. “You’re the best. You must still have eyes on her—get her back. Take them out.”
“I don’t have eyes on her.” This conversation was over. He had to focus on what mattered. Alina. “I have something better. I tagged their vehicle.” When he’d been hanging tightly to the hood, he’d yanked a tag from his pocket. In his line of work, it paid to keep one at the ready. “Shoved it under the hood.” He didn’t think they’d realized what he’d done. And if they didn’t know, then they couldn’t search for the tag.
“You…you can track them?”
His fingers swiped over the screen of his phone as he pulled up the app. “I am tracking them.” And they were definitely hauling ass. So he had to get moving, too.
“Thank Christ. Thank Christ.”
“You knew they were going to take your daughter?”
“I-I feared—” Ryker broke off.
“And you ordered me away from her home?” Just so he understood.
“I thought she was safe there! I have top-of-the-line security.”
He shifted into drive and pushed the pedal down to the floorboard. “Your top-of-the-line security was shit.” The alarm had been disabled because it hadn’t so much as beeped when he kicked in Alina’s front door. “They got to her. If I hadn’t been outside, she would be gone, and no one would know.” Gone. Terrified. Hurt.
The rage flared hotter and darker within Midas.
“You’re going to get her back?” From Ryker.
“I’m getting her back,” he vowed.
Blood dripped into his right eye. He swiped it away.
“I’ll pay you anything you want. Anything. But just—no cops. The cops can’t be involved, understand? Make the bastards pay. End them…and bring my daughter home.”
***
They carried her from the vehicle. Alina didn’t fight, not yet. She was saving her strength and trying to figure out just where the hell she was.
How long had they driven? An hour? They’d gone away from the city and taken twisting, winding paths that led them up and down the mountain and deeper into the woods.
She was slung over the shoulder of one abductor. Both wore masks, and she tried to tell herself that was a good thing. If they didn’t want her seeing their faces, then that meant they didn’t want her to be able to identify them…like when she was free and she was talking to the cops later. If she never saw their faces, the men might think they had a better chance of getting away with their crime.
If they were going to kill me, they wouldn’t hide their faces.
