That’s when it clicks. He is helping Adlet. Fuck.
“He is here. I ran into him when I first started looking. I told him she was missing, and the phones were down,” I tell Panther.
“I saw him too,” Ridge says, coming up from behind with Rain. “He had been trailing Maggie and Ashley. I thought he was their guard.”
Rain frowns. “You’re going to find them, right?”
“Fuck yes,” I growl out. “What do we know?”
Talon comes up, pulling a kid with him, a worried mother standing behind him.
“Let him go,” she cries out.
“Shut up. You might be a woman, but fuck if I will let you get one of my family killed,” Talon growls.
She wisely shuts up. I know Talon wouldn’t hurt her, but he is angry right now.
Talon clears his throat. “So after Meek cleared the bug that was overriding the live view, he was able to go back and see this kid come up and convince your girl to leave. He leads her to an area the cameras didn’t cover because it was somewhere no one should have been.”
The younger-looking woman cries, “He threatened me, then shoved money at me. I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t want to help him.”
“Where is she?” I step forward, glaring.
“He took her out the back and down the tracks in the woods,” she says.
“Ridge, you stay here with Rain and these two. Talon, strap up. We are going to get the girls. Eagle, I want you circling around and coming in the other side. Get Trout and Yak with you. Talon, Asher, and I will take the front. Try to stay out of sight. I don’t want him to know how many people we have there,” Panther orders.
Everyone is in motion in a second. I check my own gun, not giving a fuck that people are giving us weird looks. I don’t really care about anyone but Aspen in this moment.
“We will find her,” Panther promises me. “We will find all three of them, and we will kill him for what he has done.”
I suck in a breath. “I promised her he wouldn’t touch her again.”
He nods. “I understand. I did too. We failed, but we will stop him this time for good. She will understand.”
I take a deep breath. “Enough talking. I need to move.”
He nods.
“Okay, boys. Let’s go hunting.”
CHAPTER
TWENTY-SIX
ASPEN
Adlet has my hair wrapped around his fist and a knife pressed into my side, but that doesn’t stop me from trying to escape him.
“You don’t want to do this,” I tell him as I try to pull away.
Adlet jerks my head back, making me slip on the soft ground.
“Don’t tell me what I do or don’t want to do, little girl,” he growls.
“Just let me go. We can pretend this never happened,” I tell him as I slip again on the forest floor.
For crying out loud, why is the ground so wet? We haven’t had rain in well over a week.
