“Shit, I don’t even know if I have them on,” Marshal said.
“I activated them when I brought Ava to you.Fuck.”He went straight to Marshal’s computer, used the password, and brought up the security cameras.
Whoever had taken Ava had to have been watching the house.The guards the cops had placed on Marshal had only stayed for a couple of days, then left.There was no threat to Marshal.Knox had thought Ava would be safe.
Bringing up the garden security cameras, he saw it.Before Knox had even left, someone had climbed the backyard fence and had hung out at the fucking pool.The fucker was right there, with the lights shining on him, and even looked up at the camera and gave a wave.
“What the fuck?”Marshal asked.
Knox sped up the timer, and it wasn’t long after he left that the guy was joined by a second man.He watched as Ava went into the kitchen and started preparing food.At the same time, the second man climbed into Marshal’s open bedroom window.
“Okay, I think I’m getting why Ava told me to start closing and locking my windows.None of this happens to me.”
“Your wife put a hit out on you, this shit happens to you,” Knox said.
He pulled up the kitchen, and saw the other man approaching the house, as Ava tried to assess the noise she heard.Knox watched as she went into the dining room, finding the mirror.He saw all of it and knew she must have started to panic.
With it being dark outside, she didn’t see the man, and he watched as she literally rushed into the man’s arms, and he also saw her getting punched in the face.Her whole body dropped to the floor.The knife landed where he found it.
The man was masked, and he didn’t take it off, not even as he picked Ava up off the floor and threw her over his shoulder.
Knox’s hands clenched into fists.The beast he reserved for work slowly began to awake.His woman had been taken.
“What do we do?”Marshal asked.“I don’t have a clue who has taken her.”
“I do,” Knox said.
He pulled out his cell phone and waited for his guy to answer.
“I want to know where Ava is,” Knox said.
Marshal frowned at him.“What are you doing?”
He got the address in less than a minute.Knox thanked him and quickly sent him the money he needed.
“When I saved Ava three years ago and she offered to be my PA, I asked her to have a tracking system installed in her.She agreed that in the event of her being taken, I’d know exactly where to find her.We just activated it, and now I am going to get her.”
“You meanwe,” Marshal said.
Knox stopped and looked at Marshal.“I’m not taking you.”
“You can’t be serious right now.You’ve got no choice but to take me.”
“How do you figure that?”He wasn’t used to arguing with anyone.This was his life.This is what he did, but at the same time, this was Ava, not some random rescue.This was his freaking soul, and what was worse, Ava didn’t even know what she meant to him.
“You’re going to need backup and I’m your guy.”
“You’re not my guy.”
“Damn it, Knox, you’re not doing this alone.I’m right here, and you don’t think I feel responsible for her being taken?You came looking for me.”
He was not interested in playing the guilt game.The fact was, Ava had been taken and now it was up to him to get her back.Taking Marshal would be a big mistake.He was tempted to just knock him out and go get her.Only, most of the bounty hunters he encountered knew he worked alone.Having an extra hand might become useful.
“You’ve handled a gun?”
“Well, not exactly.I own a couple of guns, but I’ve never needed to use them.”
Knox put his hands on his hips.This was going to be a big mistake.“That all changes tonight.”
