“Lieutenant,” Neveah said when she returned.
Sam released Nick and looked to her detective.
Neveah smiled and nodded. “They’ve got him. He’s safe. He and Tomas both are.”
Sam broke down as her knees seemed to fail her all at once.
Nick guided her into a chair and held her as she sobbed. “Thank God.” He reached for her phone on the desk and handed it to her. “Call your sister.”
“I’ll call the Cambras,” Neveah said.
“What about Luna?” Sam asked.
“No report on her. Just the two boys.”
Sam nodded, took a deep breath and called her sister.
“Hello,” Tracy said tersely.
“They found him safe, Trace. We’ve got him—and Tomas.”
“Oh my God! Thank you so much! Where is he? I want to see him right now.”
“I’ll call you back as soon as I know where they’re taking them.”
Neveah looked up from her phone. “They’re going to the ER at GW.”
Sam conveyed that info to Tracy.
“Are they hurt?”
“They found them running down Connecticut Avenue, so it sounds like they’re mostly okay. I’ll meet you at GW?”
“Okay. Yes. We’re on the way.”
“See you there.”
* * *
Tracy screamed for her husband and daughter. They came bursting into the kitchen, where she’d been sitting by the phone, trying to will it to ring with news. “They found him and Tomas. Sam said they’re safe, but they’re taking them to the ER at GW. She’s going to meet us there.”
Mike bent at the waist and started sobbing. “Thank you, thank you, thank you.”
Brooke put one hand on his back as she wiped away tears with the other.
Tracy stood and hugged Brooke and then headed for the kitchen door. “Let’s get going.”
“Trace,” Mike said. “Wait.”
She glanced at him over her shoulder. “I’m going to see my son. Are you coming?”
“I just want to say…”
Tracy walked away. Nothing would keep her from Ethan now that she knew he was alive and where he was. Besides, there wasn’t a single thing Mike could say that would change how she felt about him allowing this nightmare to happen in the first place. In all their years together, she’d never been angrier with him than she was right now, but there’d be time to deal with that situation later.
Right now, she wanted her son. Everything else was second to that.
She went outside to where several MPD officers were standing watch. “I need a ride to the ER at GW. My son has been found and is being taken there.”
