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“One of the kids has been marked,” Vivi told him. “Just like Hannah mentioned. I saw a nondescript man hand him, get this, a stuffed Bluebird. Parker? Moe?”
“We’ve got eyes on him,” Parker responded.
“Do not engage,” Cal ordered. “We need them to actually attempt the abduction.”
A chorus of confirmations came in reply, both from those inside the event and those out.
“I just slipped a tracker into his pocket,” Sabrina said.
Amelia’s head spun, a flash headache ricocheting behind her eyes. “You can’t let them take him.”
“Who are you talking to?” Masden queried Rory.
“My team,” he told the agent, then to the others, “You handle theslick gitand keep that kid safe. I’ll handle Binni.”
“We’llhandle her,” Amelia corrected, gasping at the pain in her head, but mentally taking a page from Rory’s book and telling it to fuck off. She had things to do.
“Please tell me what is happening,” Hannah demanded.
As Rory led them to the exit across from the garage, she did her best to explain what was going down to Hannah and Masden.
TWENTY-TWO
“You should have stayed put,” Rory growled.
Amelia bared her teeth and mimicked his voice, even as she hurried to keep up with him. “You should stop being a jerk.”
“She’s headed for the parking garage,” Trace informed them. “There’s too many people leaving. I can’t take a shot without endangering them.”
“No shooting,” Beatrice ordered.
“Too late, anyway,” he replied. “She’s already inside the elevator. Looks like she’s headed to the second floor.”
“Want me to follow her?” Connor asked.
While Masden had insisted he could help, and Hannah had demanded that she, too, wanted to get to the bottom of this and was coming along, Rory had stopped them. “No go. I can’t be responsible for you and Amelia.”
“Cohen will keep me safe.”
“How dangerous is this gal?” the Secret Service agent asked.
“Dangerous enough.”
“I have two more agents here who can help,” he told Rory.
“I don’t play well with others.”
Amelia pinched his arm. “We can use all the assistance we can get. Thank you, Agent Masden.”
Rory made a rude sound. “I get that you want me to be nice to everybody, Amelia, but now is not the time for me to invite them into our sandbox.”
“You are impossible! I’m going to beat you with my crutch if you keep this up.”
Hannah and Masden exchanged a glance. Hannah stood her ground. “If Amelia is going, I am, too. If this is truly the kidnapping ring that took Stanton, I want revenge.”
Rory gave Masden a pleading look. “Get her out of here, please.”
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the past few years,” he replied, “it’s that I can’t tell her what she can and can’t do.”
