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“But I can certainly fucking try.” I turn to head back into the apartment, but I still don’t know what I’m going to tell Olivia.
The thought of keeping this from her until I know more is preferable, but from what I already know of Olivia…she’d have my balls once she found out.
Though, her being angry with me is better than her falling apart. Maybe that’s the right call.
“Go tell her,” Jaxon says. “The sooner, the better. Then, we can get back out there and find her friend.”
My chest rumbles with tension. He's right, even though I’m not ready to admit it.
I lead the way inside and head back toward the bedroom. I’m halfway across the living room when my phone starts buzzing. Damon’s calling back already.
“News already?” I answer.
“Sort of,” he replies cautiously. “I was leaving the garage and saw an envelope taped to the gate.”
Motherfucker.
He continues. “It’s a demand. Olivia for Tori.”
I should have seen that coming. My grip tightens around the phone, threatening to crack the thin device. “Use the security footage. Find out who left the note and use whatever means necessary to track where they went when they left here. Bribe, threaten, hack. I don’t give a shit what you have to do. Just fucking find where they have her.”
We had to soon, because Olivia would absolutely trade herself to save her friend. I know that without a doubt in my mind.
“You still have to tell her,” Jaxon says, standing close enough that I know he heard the entire conversation.
“I know.” I take a deep inhale, then slowly exhale before proceeding to the bedroom.
The fucking bruises haven’t even healed on her face, and from the sounds of it, Titan had intended to kill her before she escaped. Why does he…
I turn to Jaxon as another thought occurs to me. “I need to know who the inside man is that let Olivia escape. She stabbed him. If Titan doesn’t have his own doctor on call and didn’t want his guy to bleed out, he would have gone to the ER. Call around about stab victims, figure out his name. Now.”
Why the thought hadn’t occurred to me before is beyond me, but if this elusive man helped us once, maybe he’ll help us again. Whoever he is, he just might be our ticket to getting Tori back. That’s the idea I needed to feel not so uneasy about telling Olivia.
When I walk into the bedroom, Justine has taken my spot on the bed, but instead of demanding for her to get out and further upsetting Olivia, I ignore her and move to the other side of the bed to sit next to my Raven.
She licks her lips and looks up at me with trepidation. “What happened? What did Titan do now?”
“He took Tori,” I say bluntly.
Olivia sucks in a breath, and her eyes gloss over as if she’s about to burst into tears, but within seconds, she reins it all in and her mouth twists in a snarl. “I’ll fucking kill him myself if he hurts her.”
Jaxon’s suppressed chuckle drifts in from behind me. “Told you.”
Without acknowledging his needless comment, I ask Olivia about the stranger. “Are you sure there’s nothing you can remember about the man who helped you escape?”
The crease between her brow deepens. “What does that matter?”
“If we can figure out who he is, then he might be willing to help Tori do the same.” And if he doesn’t, I’ll kill him right alongside Titan regardless of his good deed in letting Olivia go.
I watch her face as she processes the idea and, even though her eyes soften, there’s still a murderous lilt to her tone. “He better fucking help her.” She closes her eyes for a moment as I assume she’s attempting to remember anything helpful. When she huffs a few seconds later, I already know what her next words will be.
“I have nothing, but we did find the house,” she says, and the latter takes me by surprise. “I’m sure of it.”
Justine hands me the phone and points at a grey house with white trim, shown from a street map view. “That’s it right there.”
Jaxon takes his phone and is already walking toward the door. “I’ll call the hospitals on my way to check it out.”
As much as I didn’t want to leave Olivia so soon, I can’t let Jaxon walk into an ambush. Titan would know that we’d want to check out the place where she was being held first.
