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“I’ll give you one million US dollars if you return him to me alive.” Again, he tried a tactic that bore no weight with her. He really thought that revenge or money could sway her into finding the boy for him?
But rather than convince him that it was more of a moral imperative when a child was in danger, she said, “Tell me everything you know. And give me full access to this place, no questions asked.”
“So you can turn it all over to your DEA?”
“You either want him back or not. I have no loyalty to you.” She paused. “The longer I stay in this town, the more likely it is that Kart or his cousin Elliot will find me. Your rescuing me from that compound will be for nothing.” She was the one who would shoulder the weight of the risk. And no one else. “If I’m going to find the boy for you, then I have to do it my way. Which means you don’t get to tell me what I need and what I don’t.”
He glanced at Ramon, then at her. “Since you two are such good friends from the FBI, Santiago goes with you and doesn’t leave your side until you bring me back my nephew.”
“Fine.” Maybe she shouldn’t have agreed so quickly, but she needed to start walking so she could shake off the prickling tension.
“After all, you failed to bring back my bride. I trust you won’t fail to bring back my heir.” He turned around and strode away.
Kenna glanced at Stairns, who shook his head. “Not here.”
They headed for the car, where Kenna sat in the back with Maizie.
Ramon settled in the passenger seat and turned to look at her. “If we don’t find the kid, then it won’t be worth me coming back here. If I do, he’ll just kill me for failing.”
“I asked if you wanted help to get out of this.” She was still prepared to help him if that was what he wanted. If she was going to provide him with safe passage to a new life, then there was a whole lot that he would need to debrief her on. That was the only way she’d be satisfied she could let him go free. Because if she allowed someone who would only hurt others, or worse, to be loose in the world, then it was her responsibility if they did exactly that.
“If I do that, then none of the others get help.”
Kenna frowned. “What does that mean?”
“Camila? The boy she was with?”
“You arranged for them to be sent to America?” Her brows rose.
Ramon said nothing for a few seconds. Then he said, “We all have our part to play.”
“She didn’t go free. She was a captive.”
“At least she was free of Navarro.”
Kenna wasn’t sure she agreed with that assessment.
Stairns pulled through the gate onto the dirt road that led to the highway into town. But he immediately took a right turn and drove around the ranch land. Acres and acres that stretched as far as she could see, with the canopy of stars overhead.
She would be able to appreciate the beauty of this country if she hadn’t been living in terror for days. Kenna might have a glimmer of safety right now, but for a little boy that peace was gone.
Maizie tapped the screen of her phone before swiping and tapping again. “They’re headed northwest at the far end of the ranch.”
“We will break an axle going that way,” Ramon said. “And how on earth do you know that? There are no cameras out here. There’s no nothing.”
Kenna leaned over to look at the screen of Maizie’s phone. “I don’t think you want to know.” Looked like a UAV satellite feed to her. What had she retasked, and who was currently trying to take back control of their tech?
Maizie said, “Northwest. That’s the way he went.”
“What I want to know,” Stairns said, “is why Kart took the boy. And what he plans on doing with a child.”
“He’s probably been planning it since the compound was raided. A way to hit back at Navarro where it hurts the most.” If Kenna were going to get vengeance on her enemy, she would also go after their most vulnerable spot.
Kart only recently discovered the existence of a child in the cartel leader’s life. But he hadn’t wasted time coming after Navarro.
An eye for an eye.
“But it doesn’t matter,” Kenna said. “Because we’re not going to let that happen.”
