Lana hung up the phone with Ryan and called Rocky, explaining the same information to her. Without hesitation, her entire team that was at her dad’s house was on the way to her.
Ryan knew where Jayson and the kids had gone to get breakfast, so he retraced that route on his way to her. Because of him doing that, her team had made it to her first.
Twenty minutes after the call to Ryan, he’d called to tell her he’d found Jayson’s car, and it was empty. The team loaded up and headed to that location.
They were looking at Jayson’s vehicle and determining the way the bad guys could have gone when Lana’s phone rang several minutes later. The entire team went into warrior mode. Her heart raced as she answered the call.
“Mommy, it’s me Jayson. Some bad guys shot at Daddy’s car and forced us off of the road. Daddy yelled for me and Dani to run and gave us his phone. I don’t know where we are. Daddy was shot by the bad men and taken when they couldn’t find us. They hurt Dani on her leg and arm.”
“Okay baby, stay calm. Mommy and the others are on the way. Leave the phone on so we can find your location. Turn the volume down so that way if they still have someone looking for you, the ringing phone won’t alert them to your location. Hang tight, baby.”
“They can’t be far. Let’s split up into teams. Ryan, you’re the local here. Take a team and check that gas station there. Geo, you and Swift are the best trackers we have. You two take a team and search that wooded area. Little Jayson is a climber, but if Dani is hurt, he won’t climb without her.” Rocky took the lead.
“He knows how to make dugouts, like snipers do. He’s always reading up on that and watched documentaries. It’s what hewants to do when he grows up,” Lana informed the group with a soft smile.
“We’ll find them, Lana. Then we’ll find Jayson and take whoever took him out,” Captain Windsor promised, making Lana look her way.
“Let’s find my kids. But Captain, fair warning, there will be no mercy, no redemption when we go after these people. They shot at my kids. I will take them out without a second thought,” Lana promised, her voice going ice cold now that she had her bearings about her.
“I have your back, Lana. Whatever you need, we are all here for you.”
Lana nodded at her captain and the rest of her team. They all split up, Lana going with Geo and Rocky going with Swift.
Her captain went with Ryan and a few others to check the gas station inside and out to make sure no one tried to escape if they realized who they were. They weren’t taking any chances with the kids out there on their own.
They broke up into four teams of four. Ryan took three with him to check the gas station, Geo took three with her while Swift took three with her to search the woods and be able to spread out more.
The last group stayed behind to search the vehicle and collect forensics. They even checked the area for shell casings and traced the vehicle back a little way to when they were first ambushed.
They were leaving nothing for anyone else to look at and leave to the side. They were going all out to nail the bastards who didn’t care that small children were in the vehicle and could have been killed because they were throwing a tantrum about the fact the truth about how evil they were started coming to light.
CHAPTER
SIXTY-THREE
Lana closed her eyes as she looked up at the sky and said a small prayer that the kids were found and that Jayson was still alive. Please let him still be alive!
“Hold on, kids. Momma’s coming,” Lana whispered loudly.
The trek was slow since they didn’t want to chance stepping on the kids if they stayed on the ground. They were ten minutes into their trek when Geo put a fist up, stalling the group.
“Blood. Jay said they had hurt Dani, right?” Geo asked Lana, not looking back at her.
“Yeah. He didn’t say how. Just that they had hurt her leg and arm.” Lana moved to the front of the group and looked down at what had caught Geo’s attention.
“The drops seem to be going that way.” Geo pointed in the direction that Lana had assumed as well.
The group moved toward the blood and continued at a slow pace. Forty feet from where they first saw the blood on the ground, Lana put up her own fist and halted everyone’s movement.
“When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are…”
“Anything your heart desires will come to you! Mommy!”
Lana kneeled down as her son popped up out of the pile of leaves that they had created and made a hideout that most people wouldn’t have thought twice of. Her son was smart as hell.
“Where’s Dani, baby?”
“I’m here, Mommy. My leg hurts.”
