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“Thirty minutes ago.”
Dad tickled Ella’s tummy, and she screamed.
“What’s in Brooklyn?”
“Their old house.” Daniel’s voice was grim as he stood. “I have a team headed there now. Let’s go meet them.”
“I’ll see you there,” Patrick said. “Text me the address.”
The line went dead before I could tell him no.
Reluctantly, I placed Ella back in her carrier. “She’ll want to see you as soon as we find her.”
“Better if the kids stay here.” Dad gripped my shoulder. “You’ll have plenty of time to apologize to her, son. For now, keep your head in the game.”
“He’s got her, but I won’t stop until we find her,” I vowed.
I cursedmyself as I climbed in the back seat of Daniel’s Escalade. It had takenthisfor me to come to my senses. Everything was as clear as it had been before she’d told me she was married.
I love her.
I needed her in my life. That hadn’t changed even though I’d tried to convince myself otherwise.
“He wouldn’t take her to their old home.” I was certain of it. I might not have been inside the mind of sick person like the fucker we were dealing with, but he wasn’t stupid enough to go back to the scene of the crime.
“Some criminals like to push the boundaries. See what they can get away with,” Daniel said. “It’s like a taunt to the police.”
“I should call Officer Wilson,” I said.
“Can you trust him? Because at this point, the last thing we need is someone inside tipping her husband off.” Daniel blew the horn at a car stopped in the middle of the street.
“You think that’s what happened?” There were dirty cops everywhere, but I couldn’t imagine anyone being complicit in this, especially not Officer Wilson.
“I have my suspicions,” he said after a beat.
“We have to do whatever it takes to find her. That asshole could already be out of the city,” Baker said from the third row seating. She’d insisted upon coming with us.
The other ladies had stayed behind, just in case. There might not be concrete evidence, but her husband kidnapping her was the only thing that made sense.
Drew pulled a pistol out from the back of his waistband.
“Where the fuck did you get that?” Daniel asked, glaring at the weapon.
“I’m from Texas,” Drew said as if that explained everything.
“Does your brother or father know you have that?”
“Uh, my dad’s the one who gave it to me.” Drew looked around to all of us as serious as I’d ever seen him. For Drew to be so serious . . . that spoke more than words could. He placed the gun in his lap with his finger on the trigger.
She could be locked up anywhere, scared to death that this time she wouldn’t escape.
Daniel slowed the car on a dim street and checked his phone. “The team is five minutes out, but we don’t have time to wait.”
“I’ll lead the way,” Drew said. Like hell he’d go in first.
“Good. Because we’re here.”
Chapter Forty
