Page 101 of Tempest’s Torment

"South."

Sniper moves in beside him. "Route One?"

"Looks like it."

"Connecticut?"

Nobody says anything as I look at the map. Connecticut, where Lucy died, and where Lilah almost died. "He's taking her back," I say.

"Maybe," Ghost says.

I look at him. "He's taking her fucking back."

"I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying we don't know where yet."

Lorenzo's phone buzzes and he checks it. "Footage is coming through."

Rogue holds out his hand and Lorenzo sends it. The video loads, and the black SUV rolls into the service station and stops along the side of the building.

"That's it," Jinx says.

Rogue moves the footage forward where a gray pickup appears a minute later and parks beside it. The back door of the SUV opens, a man gets out. Marcus Webb. I know him from the surveillance photographs, then Evan, and then...

"Lilah."

Everything else disappears, she's barefoot, her hands are behind her back. Evan has one hand wrapped around her upper arm, but she's standing, walking, and she’s alive.

"Stop it." Rogue freezes the footage and I move closer. "Zoom."

He does, the picture loses quality, it doesn't fucking matter. It's her, same clothes, same hair. My woman, twenty-three minutes ago, alive.

"Any sign she's hurt?" Ghost asks.

I scan every fucking inch of her I can see.

"No blood," Sniper says. "She's walking without assistance."

"She's okay," Jinx says. I look at him and he corrects himself. "She's alive."

Yeah, but that's all we know. Rogue starts the footage again. Webb opens the back door of the pickup, and Evan puts Lilah inside.

My hands curl into fists and the pickup pulls away.

"South," Sniper says.

The SUV waits, thirty seconds, and then a minute. It leaves in the opposite direction.

"Decoy," Ghost says.

Rogue is already searching for the pickup; Lorenzo lifts his phone. "I'll send the new vehicle details out."

"Wait." Everyone looks at me. "Webb."

Rogue looks back at the footage. "What about him?"

"Which vehicle?"

He rewinds and we watch again. Lilah goes into the pickup, Evan follows her, but Marcus Webb stands between the vehicles for a few seconds, but then he gets into the driver's seat of the pickup.