“All right, all right.”
Grayson pulled his hands behind his back and put on the handcuffs. “Come on. We’re going out to the vehicle.” He patted him down and confiscated a 9 mm gun from the pocket that he’d been reaching into.
“What about my car?”
“It can be towed, or if you have someone who can move it, you can do that.”
“You can put him in my vehicle,” Kendra said.
“Absolutely.” This was Kendra’s case, and Grayson just wanted to make sure she got him to the police station safely.
He made the fugitive get into the SUV, and Grayson seat-belted him in and shut the door. Then she got behind the wheel, and Grayson got into his SUV and followed her to the jail.
Once there, Grayson got the guy out of the vehicle and hauled him into the police station. Kendra turned the fugitive over to the police officer. Grayson gave the officer the fugitive’s gun.
“You’re busy tonight,” the officer said to Kendra.
“Yeah, too many of these guys get bonded out.”
“You wouldn’t have a job if they didn’t and skipped their court date.”
“True.” Then she left with Grayson and headed to the bail bond office.
Grayson followed her vehicle and received a call from his brother, this time over Bluetooth. “Yeah, Marcus?”
“Ivy got another text from that bastard, claiming he was the boy Ivy was supposed to meet. Billy wants to see her at the St. Mary’s entrance to Glacier National Park and have a picnic lunch with her at Sun Point. Take the Going-to-the-Sun Road to get there. He said it would take him about forty minutes to arrive.”
“Tell him that she’ll meet him.”
“Are you going as a bear?” Marcus asked.
“You better believe it.” Grayson parked at Kendra’s bail bond office. He motioned to her, and she grabbed her backpack and climbed into his SUV. He put his phone on speaker.
“Do you want to go with me to track down Younger at Glacier National Park, Kendra?” Grayson asked her.
“Yeah, of course.”
“Ivy wants to go as a bear also,” Marcus said over Bluetooth.
Grayson shook his head. “No. She’s old enough to fight a human, for sure, but if he has got a gun or a knife, she could be injured, and she’s wearing a cast for her hairline fracture besides.”
“Yeah, that’s what I told her. She can’t get out of her cast for three weeks. And we don’t know how this guy is armed.”
“Okay, well, make sure she stays there.”
“Will do. Let us know what happens.”
“I will.”
Then they ended the call. Grayson pulled onto the road and said to Kendra, “The kidnapper texted Ivy saying he was going to meet her at Glacier National Park. He said he was the son texting her. I’m headed that way and planning to meet him as a bear.”
She settled back against her seat. “I want to also, but maybe I should be a human, and then I can arrest him, or report that we found him at the park. Unless you want to call Rowland first to give him a heads-up.”
“No. If we don’t find Younger there, it will be a waste of the police officers’ effort. We know what he looks like. We don’t know what he drives now since the stolen pickup he used previously was abandoned and recovered.”
“We don’t know his scent either. You can’t bite him, or risk turning him. If you kill him, they’ll know it was a bear, and hunters will look for the rogue bear.”
“Yeah. I’ll deal with it when I have to.”
