Total pages in book: 106
Estimated words: 105231 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 526(@200wpm)___ 421(@250wpm)___ 351(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 105231 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 526(@200wpm)___ 421(@250wpm)___ 351(@300wpm)
How was she going to get the two of them out alive?
Tyler moaned again and sat up. Then he spotted her. Finally, he glanced around. He grasped hold of his head. “Fuck. We’re in fucking trouble here, aren’t we?”
“We really are. Those were Aadan’s men. I don’t know where they’re taking us or how long we’ve been unconscious.”
She was guessing quite a while considering the state of her bladder and her stomach. Not to mention how thirsty she was.
If she didn’t get to pee soon . . . well, it paid not to think about that.
“The last thing I remember is that guy behind your agent aiming his gun at me. But I was obviously knocked out and I’m guessing drugged.”
“Yeah, that’s what I’m guessing too,” she said as the plane started to slow. Shit. Seemed they were going to make a descent. “Just . . . whatever you do, follow my lead, okay? I don’t know why they took you but I’m going to do my best to keep you alive.”
“To keep us both alive,” he said. “And it’s my job to take care of you.”
Yeah, but in this scenario she thought that she was the safest one of the two of them.
Unless Aadan had brought her here to kill her.
That was also a possibility.
42
“Okay, the tracker went out of range somewhere over Tanzania,” Alexa said.
They were all seated in a very nice private plane owned by a man called Derrick Ashdown. Some guy that Gray and Hunter knew.
As well as Alexa, Gray, Hunter, Clay, Jace, Rusty, Gable, Charles and Miranda were with him.
He’d brought the last two with him reluctantly, but they had resources on the ground they could tap into.
“But that doesn’t mean that they’re still in Tanzania, does it?” Clay said tensely.
“No,” Alexa replied. “It could be that something interfered with the signal.”
“All reports indicate that the compound that the General has is somewhere along the border between Tanzania and the Republic of the Congo,” Charles said.
They were all on a first-name basis now.
Travis had been surprised that they’d wanted to come with them. He’d thought they’d try to stop him or have to jump through hoops before they were allowed to come.
But perhaps this was their best chance of finding the General and Aadan.
The fuckers who had taken his girl and his brother.
Oliver had been found barely breathing and with a bad head injury. He’d been rushed to hospital. His niece was found in a small storage room. She’d hidden in there until help arrived.
What were they going to do if the signal didn’t come back? What if they couldn’t find them?
Fuck.
This wasn’t him. He didn’t panic. He didn’t second-guess himself. But right now he could feel his breathing growing faster.
“We’ll land soon,” Hunter said. “Hopefully the signal will come back.”
“I don’t understand why they took Tyler as well,” Clay said. “Why not leave him like Oliver?”
He didn’t know. He didn’t know why they’d gone after her now. Oliver’s niece had been no help. She was damn near hysterical when they’d found her and had hidden the whole time.
Fuck. This was his fault.
“I should have never let her out of my sight,” he said. “Fuck. Why did I let her go to that office?”
“You couldn’t have known,” Gray said. “Keeping her with you all the time wouldn’t have been feasible long-term.”
“Why not?” he asked at the same time Hunter did.
Gray sighed and rolled his eyes up to the sky.
“How did they know she was going to be there?” Rusty said.
“What?” he asked.
“How did the people that took them know that she was going to be there at that time?” Rusty said slowly.
“When was the appointment made?” Hunter asked.
Shit. Why hadn’t he thought of that? He was a mess. His brain wasn’t working properly.
“I’ll message Gable and get him to talk to Isabel, Oliver’s niece,” Travis said. “She changed the time of the meeting. It was meant to be tomorrow and Isabel called and asked Caren to come in today. Fuck. Why didn’t I think that was suspicious?”
“Could she have called under duress?” Miranda asked. “Could they have traced Caren through her agent, and threatened him to get the niece to call Caren and have her come into the office?”
That seemed like a likely scenario.
He got out his phone and quickly sent a message to Gable. Fuck. This was ridiculous. He needed to get his head on straight.
“We need to find them,” he said. “I told her she’d be safe. I promised her nothing would happen to her. I’m fucking failing her.”
“Nobody knew that Aadan was still a threat,” Clay told him.
It didn’t matter. She was his to protect and he hadn’t done that. It wouldn’t happen again. When he got her back, that was it. She was going to be glued to his side.
Forever.
43
The assholes that had kidnapped and drugged them weren’t gentle when they dragged them through the house and into a large living room.