Lacey shook her head.“I… I don’t know.Berkeley and I were talking, and Samuel needed a diaper change.I said I needed to go get the bag from the car, but Harmony offered.We were right there.She said it was fine.I showed her where the car was?—”
Damien’s gut sank.He felt paralyzed, frozen in place.Activity swirled around him, voices asking questions, but he couldn’t add to it.
“Where’s Berkeley?”Jude asked.
“She’s still up front.When we realized, she called Marcus.She told me to come tell you guys,” Lacey said.
“Stay here,” Austin said.
“Where are you going?”
“To check the car.”Austin nodded at Damien, but Damien couldn’t function.Austin looked past him, and Walker went with Austin.
“They’ll check it out,” Jude said, his voice right next to Damien.
“She’s gone,” Damien whispered.
“We don’t know that yet.Maybe she had trouble getting the diaper bag.Maybe she saw a friend.Maybe?—”
“We were wrong about Grant Pickens, and he took her.Him and whoever the fuck he’s related to.Pull up the footage,” Damien snapped.
“Already on it,” Rhett said.“She walked out seventeen minutes ago.There are the lights on Austin’s SUV.Door opens.”
Damien stared at Rhett’s screen.Harmony was blocked by the door.The SUV was parked in the back spot of the row with another vehicle in front of it and others on all sides.They couldn’t see her or anything else.
“Someone else is there,” Eve Barnes whispered.“You can see the shadows.”
Rhett shot her a glare.She returned it.
“She’s right,” Jude said, pointing to the space next to the SUV.“There’s someone else there.”
“What the fuck is going on?”Montgomery asked.
“Harmony’s gone,” Lacey said.“She went to get my diaper bag and never came back.”
“Berkeley?”Montgomery whispered.
“She’s fine, boss.She called Marcus,” Jude provided.
Montgomery cleared his throat.“Okay.Good.Where’s Austin?”
Austin reappeared.“Here, boss.Harmony’s gone.No sign of her.Lacey’s keys were tossed in the backseat with the diaper bag.Whoever took Harmony left the keys.”
“Why the fuck would they do that?”Jude asked.
“No clue, but let’s see if we can pull a print off them,” Montgomery said.“Someone needs to stay with Berkeley.”
“Walker’s up there,” Austin said.
Montgomery nodded, pausing his progress toward the front.“Okay, good.”Montgomery ran a hand over his face.“What the hell happened?”
“We were just watching the video footage from the front door,” Rhett said.“We saw her go out, then open the door, but we haven’t been able to see anything else.”
“It looks like there’s someone else out there,” Eve said.
“Whoever threw the keys into the SUV.Did we see him?”Montgomery asked.
Rhett hit play on the video again, and they all crowded around his computer.
