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“Pol is here,” I say as I’m suddenly grateful for my uncle too. “I’ll ask him to help. I don’t trust anyone else right now.”
“It might be that cunt O’Connor who’s taken her?” Conor suggests.
“I’ll be looking into him, don’t worry,” I snarl. He was one of the first people who came to my mind too.
“We’ve got some flights to organize,” Liam chips in. “We’ll see you soon, bro.”
“I’ll make sure there is a car with everything you need waiting at the airport. See you tomorrow,” I say and end the call just as there is a knock at the door of the hotel room.
Chapter 19
Shane
Iopen the door to a tall man with dark hair, a goatee and an anxious expression on his face.
“Mr. Ryan, my name is Marvin George. I’m the director of security here at the hotel.”
“Come on in,” I say to him as I hold the door open.
I note the laptop he is carrying under his arm and he opens it up as soon as he sits down. “I had one of my security guards check the floor as soon as you reported Mrs. Ryan missing,” he says and his Adam’s apple bobs in his throat.
“And?” I snap.
“If you look at the time stamps,” he taps a few keys on the keyboard and an image of the empty hallway outside fills the screen, “there has been an hour of footage wiped from our systems. From every single camera.”
“What?” I frown at him. “I chose this hotel because it was a safe place for my wife to stay, and you’re telling me someone hacked into your security feed and erased it?” I shout at him, even though I know no matter how good your security is, there will always be someone who can hack it. Someone like Jessie.
“I’m sorry, Sir. We are doing everything we can to discover how this happened, but…”
“But nothing!” I snarl at him. “Do you have anything at all that might help me find her?”
“Not yet, but I can assure you I have all of my staff making enquiries.”
“Enquiries?” I run my hands through my hair. “I’m going to need more than fucking enquiries, Marvin!”
“I will do everything in my power to assist you, Sir,” he says as he stands and picks up his laptop.
I nod at him. “See if anyone saw or heard anything suspicious today. No matter how small or insignificant it may seem, I want to know about it.”
“Of course,” he says with a nod. “I’ll leave you to it.”
I watch him walk out of the door and pick up my cell again and dial Paul’s number. It takes him a while to answer and when he does he is out of breath.
“Hey, kid,” he answers.
“Paul, I need your help.”
“Why?”
“My girl. Jessie. She’s disappeared. Someone’s taken her.”
“You sure she didn’t just go out shopping or something? You know what women are like.”
“No, Paul. She is gone. Now are you going to help me find her or not?”
He takes a few moments to answer me. “Of course. You think it was that prick O’Connor?”
“Maybe,” I say, hoping that it is him, because I know where to find him. But if she has been taken by the Wolf, I am worried we might never get her back. “Can you meet me at my hotel?”
