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“Don’t worry about how we missed him now. Worry about how we find him.” Clay’s hand closed on Julius’s shoulder.
“Guys, I’ve got an address.” Quaide’s statement had him running for the Sentry vehicle.
Julius didn’t want to see if his team was on his six. He sprinted to the vehicle and jumped behind the wheel. Doors slammed, alerting him that more than one member of Sentry was with him. When he stepped on the gas, he demanded coordinates.
Jennings reached over and fixed the address in the GPS. When the map popped onto the screen, Julius’s mind laser-focused on the directions. Left, right. Three miles.
“The guy is living within a twenty-mile radius of the festival. Was that planned?” Lark asked from the back seat.
“Of course it fucking was. He had this planned all along,” he bit off. He was certain the son of a bitch orchestrated the entire kidnapping long before any of them were aware. He knew Avalynn would be at this venue with security risks, and he took advantage of them to get her.
“I don’t understand how he lured her in. She’s smart. She wouldn’t go with anybody,” Lark said.
Quaide’s voice came from the back seat too. “She responded to a text—from Julius’s number.”
Fury swamped Julius. He slammed the heel of his hand off the steering wheel. The cracking sound silenced the team for several heartbeats.
“You aren’t at fault, Julius.” Jennings’s words did nothing to help soothe the irate beast inside him. The one that rattled the cage to be let out, to put his nose to the trail and hunt the bastard and spill his blood.
“It was the third best night of her life, and I fucked it up. I was so occupied with getting to that guy you had in custody that I walked away from her. She never leaves the bus.Ever!”
“She knew better, like you said. You told her to stay there and wait for you. She was under the guard of the driver.”
He couldn’t even form words. The black fury pounding through him would only serve one purpose.
When he found the man who took his wife, he would use this anger boiling inside him…and he would make sure the bastard stopped breathing the same air as his precious woman.
* * * * *
The tight fist in Avalynn’s hair brought a scream to her lips. She opened her mouth and let it loose with all the power inside her. Her ankle twisted as she was dragged across a dirt yard toward a house.
“Help me! Help! I’m Avalynn Ray! This man is kidnapping me! Hellllp!”
“Shut up, you stupid bitch!” Kyle wrenched on her hair more, propelling her across the shadowed earth.
“Help me!” She screamed until her vocal cords threatened to tear. She didn’t give a damn. What good was her career if she was dead?
They reached a door, and he shoved her inside. She fell on the floor, palms scraping over tile. The grout lines cut into her flesh, and she let out another scream.
“Help me! I’m Avalynn—”
A hard boot hit her ribs, almost lifting her off the floor with the force of it. The air punched from her lungs, and she collapsed face down, struggling for any air at all.
“I told you to shut up. Now look what you made me do. You’d better make it up to me.”
What did he think she needed to make up for? He was beyond crazy. Julius would have some choice words for this guy.
He would find her. He wouldn’t rest until she was in his arms again. She knew it like she knew how to pull air into her lungs.
Julius loved her. And she was so in love with him. Their bond was unbreakable. Fake relationship or not, it was real now and it would last forever.
She shoved to her hands and knees and then made it to her feet. Kyle paced between the door and a window in the living room. He stuck a fingertip between the slats of the blinds. The light from a streetlamp outside beamed over his eye as he peered out.
“What are you looking at?” Her voice sounded strangled. She couldn’t have sung tonight with her voice in this condition. Not after screaming her head off.
Hopefully somebody heard her. This wasn’t the only house on the block. And she was loud. She knew how to project her voice even without a microphone and PA system.
“My neighbors heard you, you stupid bitch! Now they’ll get nosy and come running to see the famous singer. But you’re all mine.”
