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CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
Sebastian
“Dent’s here.”Tanner says and Wyatt gets up to go greet him and his men outside. We’re still at Anya and Willow’s office, none of us willing to stray far until we figure out exactly where she is.
A minute later, Wyatt walks in with Dent and three of his men trailing behind.
“What the fuck, Dent!?” Alec jumps from where he was sitting and storms over to the man we’ve worked with multiple times. He lets Alec push him, but I can tell by the look on his face that he’s holding back from fighting.
“He’s never given any indication that he’s this fucked in the head, Alec. He always does his job and does it well. He obeys orders without any question.”
“So what, my sister just triggered something in him?”
“Yes.” This time it’s Cole who answers. “Hunter said it in the beginning, it can take the simplest of things to set people like this off. And we all know that people are easily triggered. Whatever it is about Anya, it set him off.”
“Fine.” Alec snaps, clearly not wanting to accept the truth, but knowing that right now he has no choice. “Then where the fuck are they?”
Danes, one of Dent’s men, steps forward, “He doesn’t own any property. So most likely they’re somewhere that’s uninhabited. An abandoned building of some kind.”
“Great,” Alec growls. “So we’re looking for a needle in a fucking haystack.”
I flex my fist over and over trying to calm myself before I absolutely fucking lose it on someone.
“He grabbed her in the middle of the day,” Danes replies. “Chances are they really aren’t that far. He couldn’t get away with carrying an unconscious woman that far.”
“Why do you think she was unconscious?” Gunnar asks while I’m pretty sure my jaw is about to snap in half from me grinding it so hard.
“They were at the courthouse.” Tanner jumps in. “There’s no way he would have been able to get away with taking her without someone hearing her scream or her fighting back if she wasn’t.” So many fucking visions flash through my head, and it almost becomes too much to handle. My entire body becomes heavy and light at the same time. I can’t see let alone think straight and everything in me just snaps. I rear my arm back and launch my fist, putting a hole right into the wall. Everyone stops and turns to me, and I just fucking lose it.
“Why the fuck are we just standing around!?” I roar, no longer able to even attempt to hold back anymore. “She’s fucking out there somewhere with this sick fuck, and you’re all just standing around like we’re having a goddamn tea party!”
“Hunter-” Tanner says quietly, but no one else is talking so he’s heard loud and clear. “This isn’t just some random stalker. We have to be smart about this or we’ll never find them.”
I’m practically panting from how hard it is to breathe right now, but I don’t say anything else while I let them handle their shit. The only thing keeping me calm right now is the ideas of how I’m going to end this fucker. I entertain every idea that pops into my head and they’re all fucking gruesome.
“There are three abandoned buildings within a five-mile radius of the courthouse.” Tanner speaks up after a few minutes of my fantasizing.
“That’s promising,” Dent says, and just hearing his voice pisses me off. How could someone not know that they hired a complete and total psycho? Everyone on our team may have their own issues, but none of us are completely and utterly unhinged like this guy.
“Jax and Collins,” Wyatt jumps in, “You go with Dent to one place. Cole and Gunnar, you go with Danes. Grant, and I will go to the last one.”
“What the fuck!” I practically scream. I’m not gonna just sit on my ass and wait!”
“Hunter-” Tanner tries to appease me with raised hands, but I ignore him.
“No, Tanner! I’m not just sitting here! I will burn this entire fucking city to ground to find her! I’m not staying back and just hoping that one of them is able to bring my woman back to me!”
“Alright,” Wyatt cuts in. “Come with us.”
Tanner pulls up all the addresses and every minute that ticks by makes me more and more antsy. There are three more of Dent’s men here, but he tells them all to stay back and be on call if we need it. I’m going out of my fucking skin trying not to take my anger out on all of them. Logically I know that this is no one’s fault but Hastings, but I won’t actually be able to accept that until I have Anya back in my arms.
“Dent,” Alec says before we start filing out of the office. “What’s Hastings' specialty?”
We all have something. Something we’re better at than most, and I wouldn’t doubt that Dent’s team is the same way. Of course the answer he gives only makes the reality of what’s going on even worse. “Explosives.”
* * *
It takes Wyatt, Grant, and I less than ten minutes to get to the address Tanner gave us. It’s a small, abandoned strip mall in the middle of downtown Beaufort. There are six individual spaces in the building. I make my way to one end while Wyatt takes the other and Grant goes in the middle. At the same time, we kicked the doors open. After a quick sweep, the space I enter comes up empty, so I quickly move onto the next one and as I do, I see Wyatt and Grant do the same thing. We meet back out in the front, my anger and frustration only growing higher and higher.
