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“We’ll start down here.”
I shielded my eyes. Out the window, I could see the ladder of a fire truck and a fireman pointing a high beam light inside.
The interior of this building was worse than I thought. I wanted Lexie out of here so she wasn’t hurt, but didn’t dare demand that.
She kicked open another door with precision. I checked the kitchen while she searched the rest of the apartment.
“Eric!” I called. Had they knocked him out?Where is he?
“He’s not here,” Lexie said in frustration.
“Think for a minute. Does what your mother said have any significance? About making it hard on you?” In our haste, maybe we’d missed a clue.
“Everything she did was hard on us,” she said bitterly as she pushed past.
Where are you, Eric?
An hour later,with the help of NYPD and FDNY we’d searched the entire building.
No Eric.
I yanked on my hair and stared at the decrepit place.What if they had killed him?
I wouldn’t think that way.
Either we’d find him, or the police would get the Logans to talk.
Lexie ran back toward the building.
I raced after her. “You can’t go in there alone.”
“I’m not leaving here without him.” She threw my arm off her shoulder. “He has to be here. Hehasto.”
“Is there a basement or a rooftop area?”
“The roof. Oh my gosh, Lincoln. She locked us in a closet on the roof one summer. It was so hot.”
I took the stairs two at a time, risk of falling be damned. At the top of the stairwell, I smashed through the door with my foot. Cool evening air hit me in the face.
I searched for what looked like a closet and noticed a pile of chairs and furniture and anything one could think of to bar a door.
I threw everything out of the way as if it were weightless, finally revealing a door.
“Eric!” Lexie’s voice broke on his name.
I yanked on the handle and it was locked.
She reared back her leg.
“Wait. If he’s in there, he could be injured when we smash the door.”
She lowered her foot. “Eric.” She shouted more desperately this time.
We waited for what felt like an eternity.
“Sis?”
Relief swept hard and fast through me. We’d found him.
