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“What shoes did you put them in?” he asked.

Maybe if he knew which ones Reaper put them in, he would know whether she was wearing them or not. Butch’s brain was short-circuiting right now with what she was wearing before she left. He was just worried that something was happening to her right now and he wasn’t there to help her.

“The pink runner shoes and her black slide-ons,” Reaper said.

Butch made his way toward their room and opened the closet to find both pairs those shoes there.

“She’s not wearing them,” Butch announced. “Shit.”

They both walked into the main room, and everyone in there quieted down.

“Any news?” Gears asked.

“Has anyone put any trackers on any of Raelynn’s things?” Reaper asked, ignoring the question.

Everyone stayed silent, none of them looking at Butch.

“He already knows that I put some in two pairs of her shoes, but sadly she isn’t wearing any of them,” Reaper said.

“I put one on one of her jackets,” Brick said.

“I sewed one onto a pair of her pants and made a cool design, so she wouldn’t know,” Razor admitted.

He stared at all of them in shock. “Why were you guys putting trackers on her without me knowing?”

It had been his plan to put them in all her clothes and her shoes. He wanted to know where she was all the time. Butch should have made her wear a bracelet or earrings with a tracker in them so this would never have happened.

But he had been too late in getting them.

“We wanted to make sure she was safe,” Gears explained. “You have been searching for her for years, but someone was after her. Of course we were going to help you.”

“Don’t even pretend that you weren’t going to do the same thing,” Hawk said. “Where did you place the trackers?”

“I haven’t yet,” he replied, and the whole room quieted again.

“I placed some in her stuffie,” Doc announced after several seconds.

“I was working on a way to get some in jewelry, but she doesn’t wear that,” Levi said.

Ace walked into the room, breathing heavy, staring at everybody.

“Where did you put a tracker? Wait, let me guess. You put one in her phone. It only works if she has her phone now, but I’m assuming you’ve already tried looking for her and she doesn’t,” Xavier said.

“I did place one in her phone, but I was also working on placing one in her cochlear implant without harming it. They cost a lot. I wanted to make sure that I didn’t ruin it if I attempted to place one there,” Ace replied. “But that’s not what’s important.”

“What’s important?” Butch asked.

Ace was the first person he had called when he found out Raelynn had been taken. He had been trying to find out where she was this whole time.

“I might have figured out where she is being held or where her last-known location was. Her phone was found at the coffee shop. He probably knew that it was bugged and got rid of it,” Ace explained. “However, she was wearing a pair of pants with a tracker in it, but the signal stopped.”

“It went out?” Razor asked. “There’s no way it could have gone out unless they found out where it was and broke it.”

“Is it waterproof?” Ace asked.

“Enough about this. Where is she?” Butch interrupted.

“Shit. I didn’t think about getting the waterproof ones. I figured she would be dry,” Razor mumbled toward the end.