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“They-they have Viddy. They have my sister, Tiago!” I screamed.
“Where are you?” He barked.
“The diner.” I said in horror.
“We’ll be there in five. We’re right around the corner.” He growled before hanging up.
That five minutes was the longest of my life.
As soon as they’d gotten there, they’d set up a command post of sorts, put out BOLOS, and questioned nearly everyone at the scene.
All the while, I stood back, watching with my heart nearly torn in two.
“Kettle?” I asked, suddenly remembering a joke between Viddy and me when she’d gotten stranded by our brother all those months ago.
“What?” He said distractedly as he looked at a map on his car.
The man with the scar under his eye was standing next to him, listening to every word he said.
“Kettle!” I said urgently, making him finally turn and look at me.
“What?” He snapped.
“Do you remember when I joked about getting Viddy a GPS tracker? Well, I did. It was one of the ones you stick on the stuff you don’t want to lose. I saw it on a commercial that had it on a dog’s collar, and they found him when he was lost. If Viddy was actually carrying hers, as she told me she would, wouldn’t that work right now?” I asked desperately.
The Native American man who’d been standing on the opposite side of the truck stepped forward, looking at me intently.
“Did she set it up?” He asked me.
“Yes, I did. But it’s one of the one’s you have to keep charged. And I don’t know if she’s been doing that or not. How would I know?” I asked worriedly.
“Did you set it up on the computer or your phone?” He asked.
“My phone.” I said, handing it to him.
He started punching in buttons, and then let out a curse of exhilaration. “Fuck yes, I got her. It’s giving me coordinates. Hold on,” he said as he placed my phone on the roof of Dixie’s truck and pulled his own phone out before he started typing. “Bingo. They’re on I-20 East Bound heading towards Alexandria.”
“Dixie, make sure she doesn’t leave. Take her straight home and sit on her if you have to. Adeline, I’m counting on you to not make me worry about you.” He said before kissing my lips, and roaring off, followed by eight more bikes and the truck that the Native American man and the one with the scar under his eye.
I watched with my heart in my throat as the love of my life set off to bring my twin home. The other half of my soul.
“It’s going to be okay, honey. They’ll bring her home. No matter what.” Dixie said as he pulled me in close.
That no matter what was what bothered me.
• • •
KETTLE
6:59 P.M.
“They stopped at Lake Darbonne. They took Lake Darbonne Road, and then onto Lake Road from there. I have the property listed as belonging to a Reese Madison. That’s Gustavo’s married sister’s lake home. It’s empty and on the market, according to the realty records.” Jack said where we were stopped on the side of the road.
We’d stopped nearly a mile and a half away near some dumpsters.
“How are we going to do this?” Silas asked Sam, yielding to the judgment of the most experienced man on the team.
Sam looked taken aback at his father’s trust in him, but quickly took charge.
