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Riggs grabbed my arm. “We can’t, Ricky. Maverick is right. It’s just too damn hot.”
“Buddy. Where are you?”
Hearing Gage’s voice dragged me back to the present, but the same despair I’d felt then was tenfold now. “I’m right here. Where the fuck is she?” The back of my eyes hurt to the point I was squinting. The images were fresh, like they’d happened just yesterday. They were also ones I hadn’t experienced before. It would seem my memory was coming back.
Just like Chasity had told me would happen.
“Like I said ten times before, I don’t know yet, but we will find her.”
“When are the FBI arriving?”
“I don’t know. They’re going send some field reps from Montana, but from what little I was told, we can expect to see the original men who worked the case fly in at some point.”
“Why? Didn’t the police handle it in Baltimore?”
“Evidently, Rollington took her across the state line the last time. I wish I knew more but as you might imagine, there’s a hell of a lot of embarrassment going around. They’re tightlipped.”
The last time. This was happening all over again.
“Bastards,” I said under my breath and returned to the edge of the road. The deputies were dusting for prints, but I knew they wouldn’t find any. Men like Lance Rollington were careful, and he would be even more so this round. This would be his last chance to be with her, his last hurrah. I’d been around men like him. If he couldn’t have her, nobody could.
“Just hang in there. I have my best deputies looking for her,” Gage reminded me, but it wasn’t good enough.
“She’ll be dead.”
“Let’s not jump to conclusions.”
I glared at him. “I’m going to search myself. I know the mountains.”
“That’s like looking for a needle in a haystack and you know it. There are hundreds of miles of terrain, off roads leading everywhere. Hell, there are hundreds of cabins he could have her in. And yes, I’m checking every rental, every owner.”
A thought crossed my mind. “Isn’t Maverick a mountain tracker?”
Gage took a deep breath. “Yeah, he is. A damn good one.”
“Maybe I’ll call him.”
“He’s one man.”
“Nope. There will be two and a dog that sniffed out the car.” I dared him to fight me on it.
“You’re going to get yourself killed.”
“So the fuck what? If she’s saved, then I don’t care what happens to me.”
Gage shook his head. “I can’t let you do that.”
I backed away, throwing out my arms. “Who’s going to stop me? I’m a free man. I can go anywhere I want.”
“Snake. Just wait. Talk to the agents.”
“Not a chance. Now, either you can give me Maverick’s number, or I’ll find it myself. It’s entirely up to you.”
He cursed under his breath. “I’ll get it for you, but if you hire him, you let him do his job. Got it?”
“I’ll do what’s necessary in order to find her. Period.”
“That’s what I was afraid you’d say. You’re determined to get yourself killed.”
