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“I found footage of Drake taking AJ after the Docks. They went south. I’m going to follow their trail using every surveillance backup I can get my hands on.”
I tucked a knee, curling to stand on my own. “What are we waiting for?”
A curse slipped past my lips as the pain in my ribs intensified and wetness spread over my lower stomach, dripping red on the floor.
“Nurse,” Rook called, his voice back to the dead tone I knew meant nothing good. “Knock his ass out before he bleeds to death.”
I twisted to glare at him.
He glared right back.
The nurse came forward with a syringe and I gave her a withering stare that made her hesitate.
Rook stood, snatching the syringe from her.
“Don’t make me use it.”
“You wouldn’t.”
He flipped the syringe around in his fingers, a sly smirk twisting one corner of his lips.
“Want to find out?”
“We’re going to find her,” Grey interrupted, his arm hooking under mine to grip me around the back, pushing my lame ass up to my feet. “But if we let you die trying to be the hero, she’ll just kill the rest of us when we do.”
* * *
I wokefrom a forced sleep sometime later, and if it weren’t for Diesel sitting there beside the hospital bed with a shotgun across his lap and thunder in his eyes, I might’ve tried to escape.
“Don’t even think about it.”
“I wasn’t thinking of shit.”
“Sure, you weren’t.”
He sighed, resting a hand on the barrel of the gun, lifting his eyes to meet mine. A rare glimpse of his true emotion showed through the veil of iron he wore, and I recoiled from it, guilt curling its ugly fist in my chest.
“Where are the guys?”
A muscle in his jaw ticked. “Gone after your girl.”
I shot up in bed and nearly passed out from the sudden movement, falling back onto my elbows. “They found her?”
Diesel shook his head at me. “Not yet. But I got some info from that agent who owed me a favor, and Grey’s been gathering security footage from every gas station, convenience store, and doorbell cam from the Docks, through Edgewood, all the way to Lennox since last night.
“And?”
“And they’ve traced his path from the Docks to a service road just outside Lennox before they lost him.”
My chest ached with hope. “They’re there now?”
Dies twisted his wrist to check the time. “Should be any time now. They’re going to drive the area where the footage Grey found ended while keeping within the radius of the last cell tower his burner phone pinged off of.”
He must’ve seen the desperation in my eyes because he lifted a hand to settle me. “It’s a wide area, Corvus. At least thirty-square miles.”
The hope cracked but didn’t shatter. This was what we’d been looking for. Rook and Grey—they could work with this. And I had no doubt that they’d comb every square inch of those thirty-square miles within the next twenty-four hours.
They’d find her.
