“I’ll try to crack into his. All police departments have tracking on those phones,” Holden replies and hangs up.
I dial Zane’s, and it goes straight to voicemail. I dial it repeatedly while Dex and I search every square inch of the lot. We keep getting weird looks when people ride by, seeing a giant and a guy with no shirt. My phone pings with a text message, and I have to swallow the disappointment.
Micah
They took him straight back to surgery. Anything?
They dumped her phone. I can’t get ahold of Zane. Holden is trying to track him.
Micah
Let me know. We have to find her.
I know, and we will.
I can’t imagine what Micah is going through right now. She might be the girl we love, but this is his niece; they’re the only family they have left.
My phone rings, and I jerk it back to my ear without looking. “Hello?”
“His phone is there too,” Holden says. “Why would his phone be there?”
That’s a damn good question. Gage and Les were going to meet him to drop off Nina, and then Zane would have been going the opposite way. What the fuck is going on?
We follow Holden’s directions and find his phone about twenty feet from where Les’ was, buried under some rubble, which is why we didn’t find it in our search. I scoop it up and try to power it back on. The phone looks scratched but otherwise unharmed. We runback to the car, and I jam a charger back into it, waiting for the logo to pop up that it’s loading.
“It has a fucking password,” I bark at Holden.
“I can get in it,” he assures me. “I’m searching for all the security and street cams they would have passed. We will find her.”
Whoever took her better hope we find her without a hair harmed on her head. Because if they hurt her?
This whole fucking world will burn until they pay for it.
Chapter 56
Leo
Three hours, twenty-two minutes, and twelve seconds.
That’s how long it’s been since my world crashed around me. There’s no sign of Les, and Gage is still in surgery. I’ve paced this waiting room for so long that my feet hurt, but I can’t sit down. Every time I try, I pop back up and started pacing again.
When they told us they were taking Gage straight to surgery in the emergency room and rushed him off, all the faces of the nurses and doctors were grim. I almost didn’t keep it together when I saw Gage covered in blood, eyes closed, and blood running from between his lips. When he comes out of this, and he will, I’ll kiss him stupid and tell him how much I love him.
I can’t imagine who’s dumb enough to take Les, but all I can hope is she’s fighting like hell to get away because my girl is a fucking fighter. My heart is being pulled in two different directions. One to stay here and one to jump into the search for Les. We have to find her; I can’t live without her. None of us can.
Micah told me earlier that Dex and Ryder are on their way here with Holden to regroup because, right now, they’re just driving around aimlessly.
Dex, Holden, and Ryder round the corner, looking as miserable asthe rest of us. Holden goes straight to a chair, pulling his laptop from his bag, probably still running searches on anything and everything.
Ryder strides straight up to me and jerks me into a bear hug. My shock lasts a second before I wrap my arms around him. “She’s going to be fine. Gage is going to be fine,” he says adamantly in my ear.
I nod against his shoulder. “They have to be.”
He pulls back, grabbing both shoulders, and I can tell by the look in his eyes he knows what I mean. Life without Les and Gage would be awful, and none of us wanted to live with that. “Any word?” Ryder asks, pulling me towards a chair. He pushes me in it before sitting in between Holden and me.
“No,” Micah replies, running his hand through his hair. “They said it was bad, and surgery could take a while.”
Micah has been to the nurses’ station every ten minutes for an update, and everyone’s too scared to tell him to sit the hell down. The hospital has Micah listed as Gage’s brother, so he can always get information on him, and with the blue eyes, they can pull it off.
